Lost Flowers

Southgate, NSW

During the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022, I was working on set for my brother’s latest directorial work now showing on Amazon Prime, “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart”. Now that it’s up and running, with seemingly all my friends and acquaintances watching and also pulling the # 2 rating spot for the streamer in the USA, I can say how proud I am of being involved and even more so of the excellence thrown up by Glendyn and the whole team. As a musician, we love to talk about how hard we work, and a lot of the time that’s perfectly true, but making a multi-episode TV show like this takes a lot more. With everything shot out of sequence to the story, it’s a dance of art, meets logistics and plain old elbow grease on no small scale. The added bonus is that I never get to know the story proper till I actually watch it. The show comes across as cinema, yet it is episodic television. The cinematography is artful. Along the way it was realised by Glendyn and I that some of the music I had not long completed with Inga Lilejestrom would be ideal for inclusion in the score for Lost Flowers. This, along with a cut from my long-time group the Re-mains has made its way into the lounge-rooms of millions across the globe. The above photo was taken during an idle moment, under the house that features in the early episodes of the show. It’s looking out from a foundation wall, across to the cane fields and the old sheds that are also bespoke sets for those episodes. You’d never know, but all around was the frantic action required to make a program such as this.

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