ARTIST: Peter Gabriel

CREATOR: Mike Bennion

SONG: Before Night Falls FROM: Passion

Video info:

This piece is a visual poem, attempting to complement the exotic and sacral nature of the music. It is heavily inspired by the 1969 film ’The Colour of Pomegranates’ by Sergei Parajanov. It uses a similar minimalist, old school film grammar, real locations, no camera moves, no special effects, no actors just ordinary people, symbolic gestures whose meaning has been lost over time. A combination of my subconscious and the whims of AI has produced something we don’t understand, and that is what hopefully holds our attention, to figure out the puzzle.

Song info:

Before Night Falls is a track taken from Peter Gabriel's album Passion, released in June 1989.

Music by Peter Gabriel. Produced by Peter Gabriel.
The Ney flute plays a traditional Armenian melody.

Published by Real World Music Ltd. / Sony Music Publishing.

[Passion] was one of the most important records for me – an opportunity as a writer to try to do a different sort of job than I usually do. The brief for The Last Temptation Of Christ was to create something that had references to that time and that part of the world, but that had its own character and was to be timeless in a way.

-pg