Melodic Meshes: Unseen Cinema
with music by Harold Budd and Robin Guthrie
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Guthrie, co-founder of Cocteau Twins, performed with
legendary minimalist composer, Harold
Budd, to create live soundtracks for masterpieces of
avant-garde cinema including works by Maya Deren, Bruce Baillie
and more.
Collaborators on the seminal album The Moon & The Melodies
and Harold Budd's The White Arcades, Guthrie and Budd
have more recently partnered to create the soundtrack for
Gregg Araki's "Mysterious Skin", winner of the '05 SIFF Golden
Space Needle Award. This screening performance offered a unique
chance to see landmark avant-garde films coupled with the
meditative poetics of Guthrie & Budd's distinctive music.
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Film Program:
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More Details About the Filmmakers:
Maya
Deren (1917 - 1961) was a pioneering American film-maker
with a massive influence on film art. She is particularly
noted for her work in theorizing film form, and exploiting
notions of space, time and movement on film.
Bruce
Baillie (1931 - ) is one of the more important living
avant-garde filmmakers and is a founding member of Canyon
Cinema. His film "Castro Street" (1966) was selected
for preservation in the United States National Film
Registry. Baillie lives with his family on Camino Island,
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| Hands; Oramunde; Thimble Theater; Vorkapich's The
Furies; The Fall of the House of Usher and Spook
Sport provided by the film preservation project "Unseen
Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941"
sponsored by Anthology Film Archives, New York, and Deutsches
Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, and underwritten by Cineric,
Inc. unseen-cinema.com
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