Silent Film with improvised music accompaniment

This summer at the beautiful Artefact, I’ll be curating a series of live silent film screenings with improvised music, bringing early cinema into the present through sound.

Across three nights, I’ll be joined by an incredible line-up of musicians from the UK, Spain and Serbia, each bringing their own voice to the films:

• 18 May — Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)

with Pablo Sonnaillon (bass)

• 15 June — La Souriante Madame Beudet (Dulac)

with Jasna Jovićević (saxophone) & Adam Fairhall (accordion)

• 20 July — Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov)

with Pete Furniss (saxophone) & Henry McPhearson (fx)

Three films. Three different ensembles. Three completely unique performances.

Each night features live, improvised accompaniment, no fixed score, no repetition, just musicians responding in real time to the film.

Liverpool folks: come experience these films the way they were meant to be — alive, unstable, and different every time.