Next Saturday! - a specially commissioned live rescore as part of our regular film rescore nights at Roxy.
Svankmajer's FAUST rescored by Kora & Little Boat 8pm, Saturday 8th Sep £4 on the door Roxy Bar & Screen 128-132 Borough High St, SE1 1LB www.roxybarandscreen.com ........................ Kora and Little Boat first played at Roxy in January rescoring a set of classic short films as part of the Halloween Short Film Festival. Asked to return with a full-length film, the group picked Svankmajers dark, dreamlike live action / claymation animated version of the myth of Dr Faustus. This will be the first performance of their rescore. For the rescore, Kora and Little Boats viola and guitars will be accompanied by a cello, hammer dulcimer, accordion and auto-harp to create a sound that captures the mood of European expressionist cinema and Jan Svankmajers central European background; that lightly suggests images of strange carnivals, wandering musicians, burlesque, and fairy-tale cities of dark turrets, labyrinthine streets and subterranean absinthe dens. Like much of his work, Svankmajers Faust is a dark, dream-like but visually brilliant film with no previously accompanying music, to which the rescore artists plan to indulge in the un-tethered freedom and dark, unconscious suggestion of the surrealist tradition. The films original sound will be playing in tandem with the rescore. ............................. KORA AND LITTLE BOAT write music for films (documentaries, experimental shorts, narrative, animation) in the studio and in completely live, semi-improvised performances. The group began writing music together in 2005, when they started working on a collaborative guitar project that brought together West African kora and mbira music played on acoustic guitars with Little Boats own jazz and electronica-influenced loop-guitar. They went on to rescore films with members of Perico at Fabric last year, as part of Future Cinemas Metropolis project, and this year at Roxy Bar & Screen (Future Shorts) and again with Future Cinema at Latitude and Big Chill Festivals this summer. www.myspace.com/littleboat ........................ For more information on the other FREE film screenings at Roxy, please visit: www.roxybarandscreen.com an imaginative programme of innovative screenings Metro One of the best five cinemas in London - Time Out ........................
