[NEohioPAL]UnSilent Film 3: The Passion Of Joan Of Arc

[tofu]

Hello-

 Just a short "heads up" on a FREE show we have coming up in two weeks...

 there's more info on the blog: http://www.synthcleveland.com/unsilent/

thanks,
-Mike 

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 UnSilent Film 3: The Passion Of Joan Of Arc

 SynthCleveland will present the 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer classic silent
film "The Passion Of Joan Of Arc," featuring a new live soundtrack on
Wednesday, March 9 at 8pm, at Rain Nightclub, 4142 Lorain Avenue in Cleveland.

 This is the third in a series of "UnSilent" films -- silent movies with an
improvised live score -- performed by the scinema, tofu, dust_head,
fluxmonkey, thieves like me and Steven K. Smith.

 Spinning before and after the film will be special guest DJ Feima from WCSB.

 In describing his work, Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer said that film
should present "truth filtered through an artist's mind, truth liberated
from unnecessary detail." Starring Renee Maria Falconetti (in her only
film), Dreyer's unconventional camera angles are uncompromising as he
seeks the truth in Falconetti's haunted eyes and relentless close-ups of
the characters faces. The effect is so striking that Jean Cocteau remarked
that it looked like "an historical document from an era in which the cinema
didn't exist".

 The screenplay was based on the transcripts of Joan's trial. The legend of
a simple country maid from Orleans, dressed as a boy, leading the French
troops in their defeat of the British occupation forces.  After being
captured and brought before a church court, her belief that she had been
inspired by heavenly visions led to charges of heresy and led to her being
burned at the stake in 1431. Dreyer combined 29 cross-examinations,
combined with torture, into one inquisition.

 "It may be the finest performance ever recorded on film," wrote Pauline
Kael, but it almost didn't survive at all. The original negative was
destroyed in a fire and the film was thought lost until a print was
accidentally found in a closet in a Norwegian mental institution in 1981
and restored in 1985. 

 Rain Nightclub is located at 4142 Lorain Avenue (216-651-4100). For
directions go to: http://tinyurl.com/5cfyr 

the scinema | http://www.tech-elements.com/thescinema/
Steven K. Smith | http://www.skeandhu.net/
tofu | http://junior.apk.net/~tofu/music.html
dust_head | http://www.dusthead.net/
thieves like me | http://www.basementboy.com/