ARTIST: Peter Gabriel

CREATOR: Mike Bennion

SONG: Wall of Breath FROM: Passion

Video info:

This film is a response to an earlier film I made called ‘memento mori’. In that film a man reflected on the death of his little sister, using glimpses of childhood memories to illustrate his confused feelings, along with his whispered voice over.

This film is his sisters’ reply, from ‘the other side’, the next life. It uses the same visual grammar, a whispered voice, shots about nothing, elements of nature. She advises him to seize the day, not to dwell on the past.

I found Peter’s music in ‘Wall of Breath’ the perfect accompaniment. Quiet, reflective, evocative, allowing the words to breathe.

Song info:

Wall of Breath is a track taken from Peter Gabriel's album Passion, released in June 1989.

Music by Peter Gabriel. Produced by Peter Gabriel.

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.

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