“Empire” is a Cinematic Poem Short Film In London Featuring Excerpts of “Little Gidding” by T.S. Eliot Directed by Anthony Poon.

Filmed, Edited and Directed by:  Anthony Poon

Music by:  Max LL  (“Passerby”), Worakls (“From Now On”) and Belleruche (“Minor Swing”)

Sound Designed by:  Bryson Dodwell

Narrated by:  Jake Penlington

“The gateway into Western Europe, London’s cosmopolitan universe leaves you breathless.”

From “Little Gidding V” (Four Quartets) by T.S. Eliot 

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half heard, in the stillness
Between the two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always–
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of things shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.

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