The Enchanted Cinema: The Twenties.
The Enchanted Cinema’s ambitious new project spans the revolutionary decade of the 1920s and features some of its most daring and innovative film-makers whose experiments in cinema-craft shaped everything to follow, from horror to Hitchcock to sci-fi.
Featuring a mind-blowing selection of scenes from the work of Lotte Reineger (The Adventures of Prince Achmed), Fritz Lang (Metropolis), Walter Ruttman (Opus II), Vertov (Man with a Movie Camera) & FW Murnau (Nosferatu).
With original compositions by Kieron Chissik (viola, guitar, percussion) and Gareth Wilkins (piano, harp, aquaphone).
This Enchanted Cinema Screen Heritage event is supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery. www.filmlondon.org.uk/filmhub.
Programme (order to be confirmed)
The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari – Town Fair Scene (Robert Wiene, 1920)
Opus II (Walter Ruttmann, 1921)
Nosferatu, Count Orlok’s Castle + The Ship of Death – 1922 (FW Murnau, 1922)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Battle of the Shapeshifters (Lotte Reineger, 1926)
Berlin, Symphony of a Great City – scenes of Berlin (Walter Ruttmann, 1927)
Metropolis, Maria’s Dance (Fritz Lang, 1927)
Man with a Movie Camera, Railway Sequence (D. Vertov, 1929)
Each excerpt has its own original score written and performed live by The Enchanted Cinema.
For a taste of the evening, see pics and footage of Kieron and Gareth performing some of the scores featured between 2017 and 2019 at their sell-out shows at LSO St. Luke’s.
