The creators of the Film Mnemosyne: Layne Redmond and Nathanael Ross Ells
The creators of the Film Mnemosyne: Layne Redmond and Nathanael Ross Ells
The New York Times cited Layne Redmond as a "superb percussionist". Layne Redmond has made accomplishments in multiple career fields, leading her group, The Mob of Angels, out of Lower Manhattan's eighty's performance art scene, releasing the highly acclaimed book, When The Drummers Were Women, as well as numerous recorded albums. In the nineties she focused on archaic spiritual rituals plunging into the study of ancient Mediterranean civilizations. In the 21st century, she divides her time between the cultures of the Mediterranean world and Brazil, and has turned her sights in a new direction: filmmaking. The breathtaking images and amazing people of these cultures has taken her and she’s filming them with true reverence and passion. Now with this new path ahead, will she be able to truly convey missing memories of the ages through filmmaking?
Nathanael Ross Ells started his on his path into music with a scholarship for excellence in performing Italian opera which he quickly disregarded for a life of rock bands, hoping to do something musically that spoke from the heart, and wasn't just the reproducing of a composer's vision, something that would help bridge the gap between himself and the world of other people that silence had created.
Fifteen years, twenty-five countries, six bands and sixty thousand records later, is he closer to the goal? Is his heart open?