Phaethon - Film location shoot for MA film unit

Tales from Ovid - Phaethon film shoot 

costume design 

 

performer - Hauk Pattison 

director - Andie Scott

videographer - Josh Pulman

producer Agnes Treplin London College of Fashion

stills photography Leon Scott-Engel Tim Izatt

videographer documentary - James Engel

Makeup - Carole Hayman

Fire consultant  Sorcha Ra

Motocycle with kind permission James Godden

Location Botany Bay by kind permission Thanet Council Sharon Kelly

 

Technical Costume tutor Claire Christie (LCF)

Costume Technical supervisor Marion Yarwood (LCF)

 

 

 

 

Phaethon is a youth, filled with self importance because his mother, Clymene, keeps telling him that he is the son of Phoebus

The sun-god.

His friends laugh at him and in a tantrum he goes and berates his mother who suggests he visits his father.

Phoebus, the sun god greets him as his son and feels guilty for not paying Phaethon any attention and offers him a gift of anything.

Phaethon wants to drive the sun chariot and even when his father begs him not to he insists that is how he can prove he is the son of

Phoebus.

So the winged horses are brought out and Phoebus gives Phaethon his crown of sun rays warning him how to drive the sun chariot.

Phaethon doesnt listen and takes off with youthful bravado which soon turns to fear as the horses realise they can do what they want.

It careers out of control, burning the earth until Zeus the mightiest god kills him with a lightning bolt .

Phaethon falls into the sea and is washed ashore.

His sisters weep and Cycnus turns them into poplar trees by the river Eridanus, their resin tears forming amber