A new Documentary from Gertrude Thistle...

I am currently composing the music for this profound and ground-breaking documentary in conjunction with director Gertrude Thistle and Creekside Productions. This unique film follows a defenestrated Christmas tree that, in January 2025, was replanted in a small, south east London park. Here it lives out its remaining days, providing a place for existential, and often morbid, reflection from the family who wish to revive the dying tree in time for next Christmas.

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The surreal nature of this documentary has allowed for great versatility in the score. Haunting banjos from within the story world evolve into a swelling score of strings and synths in a particular moment of uncanny trans-diegesis. The score emulates the light and shade of the documentary, dancing between harsh digital noise and assuasive, pastoral piano. Both the story and the composition are simultaneously melancholic and euphoric; morbid and comical; abrasive and soothing.