CINEMA VIVANT
Friday, September 18, 2015 at 8PM
Tickets: $30 Student/Senior: $28 16 & Under: $15
The Haugh PAC is doing something new this year. We are kicking off our season participating in the opening of Gumby Fest 2015 with a special evening of music and film. The five members of Hot Club play what’s known as gypsy jazz swing against a backdrop of some of the earliest stop animated films that still exist. The Hot Club of San Francisco celebrates the music of guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli’s Quintette du Hot Club de France. They borrow the all-string instrumentation of violin, bass, and guitars from the original Hot Club, but breathe new life into the music with innovative arrangements of classic tunes and original compositions from the group’s lead guitarist, Paul Mehling.
Cinema Vivant is a celebration of imagination and innovation. Before World War I, European filmmaker Ladislaw Starewicz pioneered stop-action animation, creating a never-before-seen movie experience. A gifted storyteller who used the new medium of animation to illuminate his fantastic imaginings of the secret lives of ordinary objects, Starewicz has become an obscure cult hero. Two Starewicz films are featured in Cinema Vivant—The Cameraman's Revenge, a charming piece about the marital troubles of beetles and The Mascot, an adventure story about lost toys. On the other side of the Atlantic, American Charley Bowers revolutionized the industry in the 1920’s by combining animation with live action. There It Is, a recently rediscovered film by Bowers, is a whimsical comedy about a mysterious occurrence investigated by Scotland Yard.
Film Titles:
There It Is, Charley Bowers (1928)
The Cameraman's Revenge, Ladislaw Starewicz (1912)
The Mascot, Ladislaw Starewicz (1933)
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