Performing Cinema Movie Series
Proctors and Union College Film Studies invite you to join us in a celebration of cinema, featuring live musical performance. The series explores the vaudeville origins, German Expressionist underpinnings, and subversive imagination of the medium—which has always been anything but silent!
The first screening, “Peter Pan” (Herbert Brenon,1924), features an improvisational live score by New York’s electrifying Order of the Illusive. The Capital Region’s exquisite Metamorchestra will follow with a debut performance of their freshly composed score for “Pandora’s Box” (G.W. Pabst, 1929). Our series concludes with a selection of animated shorts from the renowned Fleischer Studios. As audience members enter the theater, they will be greeted by a musical performance by Carl Hackert, Program Director of the Hudson-Mohawk American Theatre Organ Society and one of New York’s most talented theater organists. Hackert’s performance partner for this event will be “George,” a magnificent digital recreation of George Wright’s famous Hollywood Philharmonic recording studio organ.
Curated by Paul Kazee and Jenelle Troxell, the “Performing Cinema” series features introductions and conversations facilitated by local composers and critics.
May 9 — Peter Pan w/Anna May Wong (1924; Silent w/LIVE score by the Order of the Illusive)
May 30 — Pandora’s Box (1929; Silent w/LIVE score by the Metamorchestra)
June 6 — Fleischer Cartoons! The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
