The Last Violin
Movie and Live Performance
Sun
22
Sun 22 Sep 10:30 AM
Bellingen Memorial Hall
100 Percent
General Admission
100 Mins
September
This event combines a Documentary movie on the big screen, a live performance of violin, plus a Q&A with the filmmakers. Lachlan Wilkins will play 'The Last Violin' that is the subject of the film.
The Last Violin is a feature length documentary about Australia's great violin maker, Charalambos Vatiliotis, or Harry. He and his wife Maria came from Cyprus in the 1950s.
One half of the filmmaking team, Romano Crivici, is a professional violinist and composer and has known Harry for 48 years. Together they share the making of Romano's last violin which also threatens to be Harry's last, as the ravages of old age take their toll on each of them.
The other half of the filmmaking team, Carla Thackrah, shot the documentary in one location - the home in the suburbs of Sydney which Harry and Maria have shared and barely left for over 60 years. Thackrah spent a year coming and going from her corner in Harry's tiny workshop, charting the making of his and Romano's last violin within the context of the love, friendship and humour that each of the three protagonists shares.
An important element is an exquisite score by Romano Crivici played entirely on instruments made by Harry by some of Sydney's best classical musicians.
Carla & Romano travelled with the film to Europe last year where it won two Best Documentary Awards at the Cyprus International Film Festival in Nicosia, and Bridges International Film Festival in Athens.
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