In a personal exercise, and to demonstrate another interpretation of film score from a popular movie, I present a re-scored opening to Dreamworks' 'The Last Castle'.

Timmy's Piano Lesson is a short film written, directed and animated by Alexis Block. The short was selected to be shown at the UCLA Film Festival in 2009.

'Persona' is a 1966 film, directed by Ingmar Bergman. As with all of my clips, the original audio in this excerpt was removed so that I could provide my own music for the scene. The following paragraph about the film was taken directly from the International Movie Database (imdb.com):

"A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually confesses her secrets to a seemingly sympathetic Elisabeth and finds that her own personality is being submerged into Elisabeth's persona."

In this particular scene, Alma has just had an emotional outburst about her life to the mute Elisabeth. Tired and drained, she walks into her room, pours herself a drink and contemplates. Eventually, Elisabeth joins her, and the two women share an emotional moment.

The footage in this clip is the opening credits for a now-halted show called 'Prophet' in which a girl named Adrienne sees a vision of her own murder and is trying to prevent it.

A clip from the French Art Film, "The City of Lost Children," directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, featuring a score I composed for the clip.

(From IMDB) : Krank (D. Emilfork), who cannot dream, kidnaps young children to steal their dreams. One (R. Perlman), a former whale hunter who is as strong as a horse, sets forth to search for Denree, his little brother who was kidnaped by Krank's men. Helped by young Miette (J. Vittet), he soon arrives in La Cite des Enfants Perdus (The City of Lost Children).