About the film

“The Prophet” is inspired by Kahlil Gibran's classic text. Leaving the city of Orphalese to return home, Gibran's Prophet delivers a farewell address, revealing a beautiful philosophical insight into living a life shaped by tolerance, warmth and love. Gibran's book has a timeless style that offers a unique perspective on life and how to live it. Developing ideas first seen in his debut feature Black Sun (winner of the DOX:AWARD at CPH:DOX 2006), Gary Tarn's film of The Prophet juxtaposes this fictional text against images shot in authentic locations, which creates new meanings and new interpretations of what might be familiar. An intimate reading of the original English-language text by Thandie Newton is woven into a minimalist score for acousic and electronic instruments. This unique film presents the three elements of image, music and Gibran's spoken text as counterpoints, sometimes closely knitted together, sometimes apart. At times the correspondence between the elements is more obvious, othertimes less so. It is for each viewer to make their own connections, and create their own interpretations, as the film relates to their own life. The film was shot on a variety of film and video formats, in Lebanon, Serbia, the US and the UK.

Wybrane nagrody i festiwale /Selected festivals and awards: 2011 - CPH:DOX Kopenhaga/CPH:DOX Copenhagen.