THE IDEA - A screening of Berthold Bartosch’s 1932 animated film with live theremin accompaniment
- Brompton Cemetery
Description
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Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Classes
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Tickets from £19.80
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Fulham
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Over 18
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This event has taken place.
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20:00 - 21:30
Experience the magic of the first animated film to deal with big philosophical ideas with a live score accompaniment.
Berthold Bartosch’s dream-like allegorical film is a blend of metaphor, fable, and fantasy dealing with a conservative political order's fight against the birth of a new idea. Based on a wordless novel by the pre-eminent woodcut artist Frans Masereel, a close friend of the Dadaist George Grosz, "The Idea” takes the form of a naked muse that runs amok, creating mayhem and disorder wherever she lingers in her furious foray through a world of men.
Bartosch spent two years animating Masereel's story of unbridled libertarian feminism in a series of 45,000 handcrafted frames, using jointed cardboard characters and photographing them though moving panes of glass, employing ingenious and often original effects to create the first serious, poetic and tragic work in animation.
Theremin virtuoso Lydia Kavina and pianist Thomas Ang will play a new improvised score in homage to Swiss composer Arthur Honegger's haunting and groundbreaking original, the first film music to be written for an electronic instrument.
Produced in association with REALITY FILM
Introduction by Marek Pytel
Tickets £15 including a Hendrick's Gin cocktail.
Lydia Kavina
Lydia Kavina was born in Moscow and began studying the theremin at the age of 9 under the direction of Léon Theremin himself, who was first cousin of her grandfather. She is one of the world’s leading theremin virtuosos and has helped engender the instrument’s renaissance over recent years. She has worked with composers such as Danny Elfman and Howard Shore. As well as championing new and traditional repertoire she also composes for her instrument, most notably in her Concerto for Theremin and Orchestra, first performed by the Boston Modern Orchestra, under Gil Rose, in 1997
Thomas Ang
Born and raised in Singapore, Thomas Ang trained at the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of Diana Ketler, where he won prizes for his performances of Beethoven, Frederick Delius, Arthur Bliss and other contemporary piano repertoire. He competed for the Academy at the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe intercollegiate competition of 2013, where he was the only undergraduate. He also performs as part of several contemporary-music ensembles, including playing John Cage at the Purcell Room in 2013 and two programmes of Boulez’s music at the 2015 Aldeburgh Music Festival.
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Tickets/Times
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Free Thought: Advance Ticket
Includes a free Hendrick's Gin Cocktail
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20:00 - 21:30 | £19.80 |
Location
Address
Brompton Cemetery, SW10 9UG
Area
Fulham
Nearest Station
Fulham Broadway (Tube)
Organiser
A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
This year Antique Beat and A Curious Invitation will be hosting The London Month of the Dead, a series of 36 different events investigating the capital’s relationship with its deceased residents. Events will include a private view of the Museum of London’s bone archive, taxidermy workshops, macabre walking tours and private views and a programme of weekend death salons with talks on subjects ranging from public dissection and body snatching to reincarnation and funereal folklore. Each salon will feature a pair of speakers, authorities in fields such as osteology, forensic pathology and the paranormal, who will offer their own perspectives and insights on mortality in the city.
Each year the London Month of the Dead donates 20% of all ticket revenue to one of London's magnificent seven cemeteries. In 2017 all of the death salons and concerts will be hosted at the Dissenters and Anglican chapels at Kensal Green. In previous years the month's programme has centered around Brompton Cemetery but the chapel is now undergoing important restoration work, a project the London Month of the Dead is proud to have supported.
The London Month of the Dead has been curated by a Curious Invitation and Antique Beat to inform, entertain and provoke on the subject of death and London cemeteries.
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2. Tickets are issued subject to the rules and regulations of the venue.
3. Please check your tickets, as mistakes cannot always be rectified.
4. Occasionally, events are cancelled or postponed by the promoter, team, performer or venue for a variety of reasons. If the event is cancelled, please contact us for information on receiving a refund from the responsible party. If the event was moved or rescheduled, the venue or promoter may set refund limitations. It is your responsibility to ascertain the date and time of any rearranged event.
5. The venue reserves the right to refuse admission and may on occasion have to conduct security searches to ensure the safety of the patrons.
6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
8. Tickets are sold subject to the venue or promoter's right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its control without being obliged to refund monies or exchange tickets.
9. If this ticket is re-sold or transferred for profit or commercial gain by anyone other than the promoter, venue management, DesignMyNight or one of their authorised sub-agents, it will become voidable and the holder may be
refused entry to or ejected from the venue.
10. The venue may operate a No Smoking Policy.
11. The promoter, venue management and DesignMyNight accept no responsibility for any personal property.
12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
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