Birds Eye View Sound and Silents
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Featuring Imogen Heap, Micachu, Tara Busch, Seaming and the Holst Singers. Birds Eye View presents specially commissioned live scores by cutting-edge female musicians alongside seminal silent films by women breaking ground in gothic, horror and surrealist cinema. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) + Seaming Maya Deren's beautiful and poetic New American Cinema 'trance film', accompanied by PRS Atom Award-winning multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Seaming. Running time - 14 minutes. Hansel and Gretel (1955) + Micachu Animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger's starkly silhouetted Hansel and Gretel, with a score by experimental pop sensation Micachu. Running time - 10 minutes. Suspense (1913) + Tara Busch Lois Weber's genre-setting race-against-the-clock thriller, accompanied by ethereal and spellbinding performer Tara Busch. Running time - 10 minutes. The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928) + Imogen Heap & the Holst Singers Dulac's captivatingly macabre exploration of violence and erotica in a clergyman's unconscious mind - considered the first surrealist film - scored and conducted by Grammy and Novello Award-winning musical innovator Imogen Heap, and performed by the world-class Holst Singers. Running time - 41 minutes.
Archive :: concert:S1025170538, venue:V423
Production details
Queen Elizabeth Hall - Women of the World
