Live Improvisations to Silent Films at Brecht Forum NYC July 20, 2009

Live Improvisation to Silent Movies from Soviet & USA

20 July 2009 - Broadway Boogie Woogie: A City Unfinished
Monday July 20th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014
$6/$10/$15 sliding scale suggested donation
http://www.brechtforum.org

DOUBLE FEATURE

RIGHT TO THE CITY:

7:30
--New York City “Ghetto” Fish Market - James Blair Smith, 1903, 2 minutes
--Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River - James Blair Smith, 1903, 3 minutes
--Manhatta - Paul Strand & Charles Sheeler, 1921, 6 minutes
--A Bronx Morning - Jay Leyda, 1931, 11 minutes
--Footnote to Fact - Lewis Jacobs, 1933, 8 minutes
--In the Street - James Agee, Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, 1948, 16 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 46 minutes | Digital Projection

8:30
--Moscow - Mikhail Kaufman & Ilya Kopalin, 1927, 59 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 59 minutes | Digital Projection

With live musical accompaniment by Citizens Ontological Music Agenda: David Brahinsky, trumpet; Sten Hostfalt, mandolin; Andy O'Neil, drums; Lex Samu, coronet; Blaise Siwula, reeds.

Speakers to include:
--Cassim Shepard of Urban Omnibus

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(The Sheeler, Strand, Leyda, and Jacobs films are available on the Unseen Cinema DVD Picturing a Metropolis (2005) released by Image.)

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