Tea

Director Scheffer registered a performance of the Tea Opera by Chinese composer Tan Dun who won an Oscar in 2001 with his score for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Scheffer interlaces the images with interviews with Dun stage director Pierre Audi and librettist Xu Ying about the opera and the role tea and oriental philosophy play in this work Using monochrome sometimes abstract images in yellow blue red and green closeups of plants and flowers and images of the Chinese nature and people sometimes accelerated or decelerated sometimes in blackandwhite he mirrors the stylised opera performance and Duns reflective music