Wu Tsang’s Moby Dick; or The Whale at Westpac Openair Cinema

You may know the tale of Moby Dick, the epic clash between man and beast as originally told in American author Herman Melville’s 1851 classic novel. But not like this.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales is teaming with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra to present the Australian premiere of Wu Tsang’s Moby Dick; or The Whale in a special performance at the Westpac Openair Cinema.

A collaboration between award-winning UK filmmaker and visual artist Wu Tsang and the collective Moved by the Motion, Moby Dick; or, The Whale is a new adaptation follows the story’s elusive white whale above and below the surface of the water. Tsang’s reimagining claims to reveal “the novel’s subterranean currents and contemporary resonances, from ecological crisis to queer desire amongst a cast of mariners, renegades and castaways.”

Screening on Friday January 27 at the Westpac Openair Cinema in its Australian premiere, the film includes original music composed by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw and Andrew Yee with Asma Maroof, performed live with the musicians of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

With the harbour itself the backdrop to the classic oceanic tale, it’s hard to think of a more apt setting.

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