“The Seashell and The Clergyman”

Stevin Severin
Cinefamilly Theater – Los Angeles, CA
11/11: Music To Silents
11/18: Blood of a Poet

In his Los Angeles live solo debut, Steven Severin (founding member and longtime bassist for Siouxsie And The Banshees) comes to the Cinefamily for two successive Wednesdays of intense, compelling, moody and sensuous live scores to rare silent and experimental films!

This first evening is based upon trance-inducing tracks from his 2009 solo album “Music For Silents”. The centerpiece of the evening is his new score for Germaine Dulac’s The Seashell and The Clergyman(1928), considered to be one of the very first surrealist films. A collaboration between Dulac and the infamous French playwright Antonin Artaud (who was reportedly infuriated by the final product), the film tells of an amorous priest, and the object of his desire whom he never can grasp. Severin’s sparkling piano lines, played backwards and forwards, collide headfirst with subtle synth work shattering effect.

“Blood Of A Poet”

Event Info-

Silent Wednesdays | 8:00pm

11/11:Steven Severin: Music To Silents
11/18: Blood of a Poet (w/ new live score by Steven Severin)

Co-presented by Part Time Punks
Tickets – $15- For advance tickets, purchase them here.

Location-
Cinefamily Theater
611 N. Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90036

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via EM Staff, 6 November 2009 11:53am | |