Second Self, Beethoven Resurrection

4K Video with live orchestral accompaniment (90 mins)

A magical-realist documentary, a speculative ghost story, an improvised, slow-motion disaster movie.
A film by Hugo Glendinning & Tilly Shiner, with an original score & composition by Sami El-Enany.

Second Self follows the journey of Beethoven’s washed-up ghost through the streets of London on Brexit night. It’s his 250th Birthday Anniversary and he is after a drink and compensation. The Royal Philharmonic Society only paid him £50 for his famous work ‘Ode To Joy’, the official ‘Anthem of Europe’ and now he’s angry and confused. This music came to symbolise unity and hope, yet what he witnesses amongst the night revellers and ecstatic Brexit supporters is division, hate and chaos. Along the way he encounters a series of strange visions, finally giving him a little hope that music, art and beauty will persist.

Performances by
Jerry Killick
Melanie Pappenheim
Aisha Orazbayeva
George Njoki
Flora Wellesley Wesley
Martin Creed

Produced by KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, Hugo Glendinning & Tilly Shiner
Original score and composition by Sami El–Enany
Beethoven’s 9th Symphony ‘Ode to Joy’ adapted & performed by Melanie Pappenheim
A memory of Beethoven’s Spring Sonata performed by Aisha Orazbayeva
Original dance devised and performed by Flora Wellesley Wesley
What The Fuck am I Doing? performed by Martin Creed

Cast & Crew
Directors……………………….Tilly Shiner & Hugo Glendinning
Co-Production……………….…KunstfestSpiele
Production Support……………Mint&Lime
Cinematographer 1……………Billy Trevitt
Cinematographer 2……………Becan Rickard-Elliott
1st AC………………………….Nike van Schie
1st AC………………………….Simon Eaves 
Camera Operator 2……………Zillah Bowes
Additional Photography.……...Ed Tucker, Hugo Glendinning
Assistant………………………Stanley Glendinning 
Sound Recordist 1…………….Gus Collins (House of Noise)
Sound Recordist 2…………….Will Berger (House of Noise)

Composer………………………Sami El-Enany
Conductor………………………Samuel Jones
Drummer………………………..Luca Caruso
Orchestra……………………….Musica Assoluta
Live orchestra recordist……….Alexander Fischerauer

Sound Mix………………………House of Noise
Edit & Grade……………………Tilly Shiner & Hugo Glendinning

DIT Courier……………………..’Fluff’ Thalia Swan
Costume Designer……………..Laura Hopkins 
Language consultant………….Leopold Helbich 
Script advice…………………..Natalie Long, Tim Etchells
Production Assistant 1………..Chloé Chatard 
Production Assistant 2………..Teddy Glendinning
Production Assistant 3………..Oli Rushen 
Production Assistant 4………..Lottie Westgarth 
Production Assistant 5………..Zach Trevitt
BSL Interpreter…………………Becca Citroen
Horse wrangler…………………David Fleming, Ebony Horse Club Brixton
Dog wrangler……………………Jose Ros

Beethoven……………………….Jerry Killick
The Mourner……………………..Melanie Pappenheim
The Vision of Music……………...Aisha Orazbayeva
The Guardian Angel……………..George Njoki
The Vision of Dance……………..Flora Wellesley Wesley
Vision through a Letterbox……..Martin Creed
The Actor………………………...Hannes Flaschberger

Vaping man………………………Henry Norgrove
Busker…………………………….Oli Rushen
Dog walker……………………….Oscar Glendinning
Beach Crawlers………………….Louis Glendinning 
………..…………………………..Oscar Glendinning 
………..……………………………Esther Chadbourn
………..…………………………….Evan Chadbourn 
………..…………………………….Olmo Bellotti 
………..…………………………….Lorenzo Bellotti 
………..…………………………….Thomas Read 
………..……………………………May Read 
………..…………………………….Lilah
………..…………………………….Isaac Biddulph
………..…………………………….Rita Biddulph 
………..…………………………….Charlotte Roxburgh
………..…………………………….Oliver Jay
………..…………………………….Thomas Archie
………..…………………………….Otto
………..…………………………….Eli
……..……………………………….Tomo Shemesh