Susan Stacey as 'The woman'

Preliminary filming summer and autumn London 2005, and used as an inspiration point for other collaboration film projects with UK College film units and student director and film makers during the academic year 2006.

'Erwartung' is the uncompromising one woman opera written by Arnold Schonberg. A physiological examination of one woman's frantic midnight journey - the story concerns the flight of a woman who is pursuing or being pursued. Is she the murderer of the body she encounters, is the body of the lover that she has spurned, or is he unknown to her, is she guilty or an innocent caught in a murderous trap?

'Erwartung' is an enigma, the vocal and theatrical equivalent of seeing two middle chapters of a long thriller - the viewer neither knows the beginning or the end of the plot, but is invited to make their own conclusions about the images they witness in performance. It is an abstract, inconclusive work of one of the 20th Century most influential music forces - challenging, uncompromising and hugely theatrical. Erwartung is an ideal project to combine film - the 20th Century's most significant art form.

Susan Stacey has worked with an eminent film maker on the concept for the performance/film installation to create a piece of work that can be viewed either as a film version of the work or, more excitingly, as an interactive live performance/film installation.

www.erwartung.com/filmresource

On line January 2006 for student film makers and schools projects

Preliminary film stills to follow August 2005

Concept set box for live performance photo to follow August 2005