Silent experimental shorts with a live soundtrack by Richard Youngs

Presented by: Southside Film Festival CIC

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0	GLASGOW: The Glad Cafe
P	Saturday 2nd June, 2018
N	8:00pm

Event information

Emak Bakia (Man Ray, 1926)
Ghosts Before Breakfast (Hans Richter, 1927)
Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel,1929)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hamid, 1943)

A selection of four silent shorts from the experimental margins of early 20th century cinema, featuring key works by some of the most distinctive filmmakers of the Surrealist movement and experimental avant-garde. Ranging from the strange and humorous to the dreamlike and disturbing, these pioneering films remain invigorating in their inventiveness and speak to the possibilities of the medium of cinema some 80 years later.

We are delighted to welcome celebrated musician Richard Youngs to provide a soundtrack to this programme. With a career spanning thirty years and a prolific output, Youngs’ restless creativity has meant never getting stuck in one genre or sound; noise, free improv, psychedelic folk mantras, avant-disco and all manner of song deconstructions have peppered his rich and varied discography, and his fearless and exploratory attitude to music will make for a fittingly unique accompaniment.