Delirium

Amidst the dreaming spires of a British university, an international composer struggles to deserve his reputation and seal his career with a modern Requiem, only to find it raises more ghosts and more strife than it lays to rest.

Praise for Delirium

“…full of beautifully-rendered choral pieces… a wonderfully intimate and emotionally powerful score...” 
2017 Reel Music Awards

“It is a brave film and the music is magnificent…I have been thinking about it ever since. It stays in the mind.”
Angela Singer, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

“… a very smart performance, I thought, from the leading man and the score was brilliant.  Beautiful message, melodically conveyed with more than a hint of Orpheus as, from the underworld, the musician who is cut to pieces still continues to produce sounds.”
Prof. Dominic Keown, University of Cambridge

What Our Audiences Say

“…a beautiful film…uplifting…”
“…elegantly filmed drama, astute psychological observations…”
“…powerful use of music as both turbulent and redemptive force…”
“…a brilliant achievement…”
“…cellist Alisa Liubarskaya is an outstanding self-possessed presence…”
“…thank you for your wonderful film…”
“…loved the film, the music was fab…”
“…nice camera and music… it was great…”

Synopsis

International composer Peter Pilger faces the challenge of his life:

To deliver a Requiem for his former college St Jude’s in time for the Memorial Celebrations while facing down revelations about his past and living up to his new authority as High Master.

Freighted in to lead his struggling alma mater through the rising tides of university fees, student unrest and political correctness, the wayward pop star turned composer neglects his reclusive wife and ungovernable teenage kids to turn upside down the institution he is meant to rescue.

But it is not from his misspent youth as an undergraduate at St Jude’s and not from the modern student body that his biggest trial emerges, but from the kitchens, where a time bomb ticks amongst the migrant college staff in the dazzling cellist Anastasiya, who remembers more about him than he does.

His Requiem lays nothing to rest. Not his libido. Not even his conscience.

Filmed on location at the Founder’s Building Royal Holloway (RHUL), Egham, Surrey.

Press

Gareth Jones Interview with Cambridge 105 Radio

Gareth Jones feature in Cambridge University’s Johnian Magazine

Clare Grogan Scotland on Sunday Magazine Cover

Clare Grogan Delirium – Scotland on Sunday Magazine Feature

DELIRIUM Facebook Page

Royal Holloway News – Delirium UK Première

Screen Daily: Gareth Jones’ ‘Delirium’ begins shoot

Royal Holloway Media Arts News