Making the Nightingale and the Rose: from painting to screen

Del Kathryn Barton: The Nightingale and the Rose has its genesis in a commission by ArtAnd Foundation, who asked Del Kathryn Barton in 2010 to reimagine a timeless fairytale. A long-time aficionado of Wilde’s works, Barton was struck by using The Nightingale as inspiration; one of his most poignant stories and related intrinsically to her own work with its vulnerable but emboldened feminine protagonist. Produced over two years, Barton’s collection luminously breathes life into Wilde’s classic in her signature style.
It was a synchronous moment when Barton mentioned to director and friend Brendan Fletcher that she was eager to transform her Nightingale world into film. Though neither possessed an animation background, together they embraced the project with a vision to offer something new and different to the genre, whilst remaining authentic to Wilde’s prose and Barton’s astounding feel for the handmade.
Working with award-winning visual effects house Method Studios, the final creation is an intense but remarkably ethereal gesture to the tragic earnestness of Wilde’s tale. Layered with stirring score by Sarah Blasko and voiced by some of Australia’s most celebrated actors, including Mia Wasikowska, Geoffrey Rush and David Wenham, the film is a shining example of multidisciplinary partnerships across the creative arts.

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I want to see the whole film. BEAUTIFUL.

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I do really want to watch the whole film.

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