Original score

The Pet Shop Boys (Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe)

Orchestration

Torsten Rasch

Art direction

Simon McBurney

Projection

Sven Ortel

Sound

Kay Basson, Neil Alexander, Gareth Fry

Costume

Christina Cunningham

Cast

The Pet Shop Boys and Dresdner Sinfoniker, Simon McBurney, Tim McMullan, Charlotte Medcalf

A screening of Eisenstein's 1925 film, 'Battleship Potemkin' in Trafalgar Square, accompanied by a new score written and performed by The Pet Shop Boys with the Dresdner Sinfoniker.

 

The film was preceded by a montage of images of political protest in Trafalgar Square, Suffragette demonstrations, Poll Tax riots and the Stop the War movement.

 

Presented by the ICA as part of the annual programme of free events organised by the Mayor of London.