While You Live, Shine

Selected Scenes

American musicologist Chris King is a legend, the most obsessive collector of old 78 records alive, and also the only one who can use modern technology to unlock their sonic secrets & remaster them for a 21st century audience. For years, he's lived in a world of nostalgia, listening to music from a distant past. But his discovery of the music of Epirus in northern Greece changed his life.

The old 78s he first fell in love with, containing a barbaric and raw folk music that he believes connects us with our most ancient ancestors, is still being played today in the mountains of Epirus. Travelling there, Chris began to break out of his prison of nostalgia and started to find a home for himself, for the first time in his life.

While You Live, Shine is both an introduction to some of the most hypnotic & beautiful music you've never heard, an immersive trip into an isolated & half-forgotten land, and a portrait of a man who has belatedly found his spiritual home on the other side of the world.

Feature Documentary // Funded by The Arts Council of Ireland - Reel Arts Scheme // Screenworks

Producer : Paul Duane & Nick Franco // Director : Paul Duane

Shot in USA & Greece