Silent Cinema with Live Scores: The Lost World (1925), with live score by Fred Leone

Name: Silent Cinema with Live Scores: The Lost World (1925), with live score by Fred Leone
Start: 2025-02-26T20:00:00+11:00
Location: Fed Square

Schedule

Wed, 26 Feb, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC+11:00

Location

Fed Square | Melbourne, VI

For three days this summer, as part of Open Air at the Square, experience a mini open-air film festival with a difference, featuring a program of classic Indian and American silent films with live music accompaniment.
Each of the film’s scores has been composed specifically for each film, and will be performed by the composers and guests, showcasing bluegrass, Butchulla songman and classical Indian styles of music.
With films traversing the spectra of Indian folktales to early Hollywood monster films and Buster Keaton physical comedy classics, this event series is one to entrance film-lovers and music-lovers alike.
Pack a picnic and pull up a deck chair – and join us in celebrating the innovation and magic of the early days of cinema, on the Big Screen.
Presented by Fed Square, in partnership with Insite Arts.
The Lost World (1925), with live score by Fred Leone
Wednesday 26 February, 8pm | Main Square
The Lost World is a groundbreaking silent film that transports audiences to a realm of prehistoric wonders and perilous adventures. Directed by Harry O. Hoyt and based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel, the film follows a daring expedition led by the intrepid Professor Challenger, who is determined to prove the existence of a hidden plateau teeming with dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. Leone fuses traditional and contemporary sounds to create an immersive experience of this iconic and thrilling tale, featuring voice, Kuluru (Garrwa language for Yidaki aka Didgeridoo), boomerangs (Bargan in Butchulla language), Emu egg (Ngurunj in Butchulla language), tree branches, sand and other objects.
Check out the full program of free live music, outdoor cinema and community events on as part of Open Air in the Square. https://fedsquare.com/events/open-air-at-the-square