Category Archives: video

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More footage

Aug
14
2019
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A more complete YouTube playlist can be found here Cinematic Scores On Common Ground (documentary) On Common Ground: David Goldblatt & Peter Magubane. A few weeks prior to their work being shown together, David Goldblatt […]

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Selected footage

Aug
08
2019
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Iziko Slave Museum – The Slave Calendar (cultural promo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2g5wodbufA Stylish and moving promo video by Geometry/Ogilvy for Iziko Slave Museum, using the track “Sinking Down” featuring the voice of Ntutu Nyiki. (2018) Nic Paton […]

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“Soaring”: drone footage with new album “Wide Horizons”.

Jun
30
2015
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Filmmaker Stephen Schmidt of Splash Films made this stunning video to the track “Soaring” off the new “Wide Horizons” production library collection now out on Mama Dance.  

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“Rolling Hills” from new album “Wide Horizons”

Jun
25
2015
by Nic Paton | 1 Comment

Enjoy this preview from the soon to be released “Wide Horizons” (more soon). I teamed up with filmmaker Jaco Wolmarans who did this superb visual essay of the Golden Gate area of the Drakensberg Mountains.

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How I spent 1988

Jul
23
2014
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So, 26 years ago I was a student in Jazz at the University of KwaZulu Natal with Darius Brubeck. This CBS documentary is the tour by the Jazzanians to the US at the end of […]

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The Inyathelo Philanthropy Awards 2013

Nov
06
2013
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I scored the music for the Inyathelo Philanthropy Awards, which took place on Tuesday 5th November at a gala dinner at the City Hall, Cape Town. Filmmaker Marisa van Jaarsveld had this to say about […]

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Mama Dance Composer Interviews – Nic Paton

Aug
27
2013
by Nic Paton | 1 Comment

As part of the Pianism launch, there is a write-up on South African Industry portal Film Contact and a video interview by Mama Dance’s visionary founder, Craig McGahey.

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A Tone Poem : The Arc of Home

Jun
07
2012
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This spacious pianistic piece, “The Arc of Home”, is a tone poem set to a simple, short and yet deeply profound visual narrative by director Amelia Olsen-Boyd.

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Otelo Burning official trailer.

Jul
19
2011
by Nic Paton | 8 Comments

“Otelo Burning” (trailer score by Nic Paton) is the opening film at this months Durban International Film Festival.

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Showreel

Jul
14
2011
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2018 showreel featuring comedy caper “Frank And Fearless”, photographic documentary “On Common Ground”, and wildlife documentary “Last Of The Big Tuskers”.

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