Halloween Special Event: Light Upon Blight live score to "A Page of Madness" at Best Video
Schedule
Fri, 25 Oct, 2024 at 08:00 pm
Location
1842 Whitney Ave., Hamden, CT, United States, Connecticut 06517 | Hamden, CT
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The improvisational collective Light Upon Blight, led by Jeff Cedrone and frequent collaborator Peter Riccio, will be performing their 9th annual Halloween live score on Fri., Oct. 25, at Best Video Film & Cultural Center. The show starts at 8 PM and the cover is $10. This year's film is "A Page of Madness."Always led by musician Jeff Cedrone (guitar and analog synthesizer), this iteration of Light Upon Blight also features Bob Gorry (guitar), John C. Miller (synthesizer), Peter Riccio (drums), and Vance Provey (trumpet).
Chris Fujiwara, writing on the EbertFest website:
"Since the vast majority of Japanese films from the silent era are lost, the existence of a film as unusual and important as A Page of Madness(Kurutta ichipeiji, 1926) is a real stroke of luck. With its bold and striking visual style, its ambiguous (and, on first viewing, perhaps almost incomprehensible) narrative, and its close connections to the most progressive thinking about film of its day, it's no wonder that A Page of Madness has become one of the most discussed and debated of Japanese films... On first encountering A Page of Madness, with its insane asylum setting, many viewers might think of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), but the film bears little stylistic or narrative influence from that Expressionist classic and has closer links to the Impressionist school represented by such directors as Abel Gance and Marcel L'Herbier, whose works were released and much discussed in Japan... Using superimpositions, rapid and insistent visual patterns, fantasy sequences, and the visual flamboyance of actors impersonating mad people, A Page of Madness builds an atmosphere of astonishing intensity. The film plays on a continual discordance between subjective and objective reality, although the various layers of the narrative can eventually be discerned by the patient viewer."
Costume wearing is welcomed, even encouraged.
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Where is it happening?
1842 Whitney Ave., Hamden, CT, United States, Connecticut 06517Event Location & Nearby Stays:
