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- Silent Film & Comics
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) is a silent silhouette animation by Lotte Reiniger, considered by many to be the first…
This 1926 German Expressionist silent film, starring Emil Jannings, Gösta Ekman, and Camilla Horn, was Murnau’s last German film before…
One of the most startling and striking silent films from Japan, PAGE OF MADNESS was rediscovered by director Teinosuke Kinugasa…
The films of Georges Méliès, one of the cinema’s earliest visionaries, have inspired filmmakers for over 100 years. Practitioners as…
This score for Tod Browning’s 1927 silent film The Unknown was originally commissioned by The American Museum of the Moving…
His scores have been widely performed in Europe, Australia and the United States, at venues including The New York Film Festival, The Sydney Film Festival, The Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, The Virginia Film Festival, The Roma Jazz & Image Festival (Rome, Italy), Rote Fabrik (Zurich, Switzerland), Slovenska kinoteka (Ljubljana, Slovenia), The Melbourne Festival of the Arts, The Sydney Opera House, MONA FOMA (Tasmania), German Film Festival (Sydney, Australia), American Museum of the Moving Image, Revelation Perth International Film Festival, and many others.
His most recent score, for The Adventures of Prince Achmed, again represents a new approach to music for silent film. Combining electronic and acoustic instruments, the score is structured around a pre-recorded score of sampled electronic loops and percussion. Against this, a live band will perform, consisting of two keyboards, soprano saxophone, & trombone. The music is through-composed, seasoned with elements of improvisation, and invokes elements of jazz, blues, minimalism and classical music.