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FRIDAY 14th OF MAY 2010 - 20:00h - GOETHE INSTITUT AMSTERDAM
TABU : A STORY OF THE SOUTH SEAS
Dir. F. W. Murnau - Germany - 1931 - 81 min
With a live soundtrack performed by:
Filippo Castellazzi, Michael Stratz, Mark Van Soest, Mataklap & Hakki Takki
Murnau’s Tabu brings the ‘Romeo & Juliet’ tale in Polynesia, where the drama of a young couple unfolds. Two lovers are
doomed when the girl is chosen as ‘holy maid’ and declared “tabu” to all men by a tribal edict. Unlike his landmark
expressionist titles such as Nosferatu and Faust, Tabu is filmed in sunny Tahiti and features gorgeous tropical landscapes
and dazzling underwater images. Co-produced by legendary documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty and filmed with a
cast of local non-professional actors to add realism to the story, Tabu was Murnau’s last film as he died in a car accident
just a few weeks before the film’s premiere
Tabu is going to be screened with a new score composed and performed live by an electro-acoustic quartet made of two
professional jazz musicians and two cutting-edge electronic producers. From 2006 this ensemble has collaborated to the
composition of several soundscapes, mixing jazz music and electronics.
Filippo Castellazzi, Michael Stratz, Mark Van Soest (Mataklap), and Frank Schoeten (Hakki Takki) combine their different
musical backgrounds to create a number of refined and always surprising compositions.
Filippo Castellazzi | Mataklap | Hakki Takki | Goethe Institut
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FRIDAY 23RD OF APRIL 2010 22:00 - SMART PROJECT SPACE
RUSSIAN SPACE AGE NIGHT
In collaboration with Moskow Diskow
Last years 40year "first man on the moon" anniversary left us with a full month of repetitive small steps for man and even more giant leaps for us all in international western media. All good and well, pretty impressive, but we've seen that by now...
What about Spudnik, the first earth-orbiting artificial satellite. Laika, the first mammal in space, Yury Gagarin, the first hu-man in space, Valentina Tereshkova, the first wo-man in space, and Alexei Leonov, the first man to walk in space.... Havent seen much of those early space-age troopers have we?
Cine/Sonic & Moskow Diskow will now give you the opportunity to brush up on your CCCP space age image bank with a special cinema screening of "CCCP in space", a tell tale compilation of early russian space age imagery especially made for Cine/Sonic by accompanied by a live soundtrack played by O.M.F.O. presented in collaboration with Moskow Diskow. A dreamlike mesmerizing trip through space where indeed before no one was bold enough to go... Those Russians did, you'll see!
The second stage of this night we will be decdending back to earth, scourching through the atmosphere with a dj set by Moskow Diskow. In your dreams you shure will be floating through space feeling like Leonov once did.
O.M.F.O. | MOSKOW DISKOW | SMART PROJECT SPACE
about O.M.F.O.
The spectrum of OMFO’s work is wide. He produces soundtracks for adult video clips and composes jingles for Turkmen radio stations. He contributes his tracks to the Russian made blockbuster Manga and wrote the soundtrack for the first ever Central Asian pavilion at the Venice Biennale. OMFO gives solo concerts, performs as a sound artist and collects fields recordings. Welcome to the electronic Walachia! where folk meets Kraftwerk and where electronic bizarre instruments and electronic sounds combine to create a whole new musical dimension.
about MOSKOW DISKOW
This collective of artists/djs creates an imaginary Moscow discotheque filled up with exotic, thrilling and teasing airs. As a tribute to the Telex classic, `Moskow Diskow` will deliver to you a seductive cocktail of funny’n’funky, glittery disco, sweaty Italo, neowave and vodkabeat. From Chicago to Berlin, from Tokyo to Vladivostok, featuring local and international artists, with an eye on Russian electronic scene. No brain drillers behind the decks and no statues on the dance floor.
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Friday 12th of March 2010 - 20.00h - Goethe Institut Amsterdam
MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG (PEOPLE ON SUNDAY)
Dir. Robert Siodmak - Germany – 1929 - 73 min
New soundtrack by: Simone Giacomini + Rodolphe Coster
Two friends, a cab driver and a salesman, find themselves with nothing to do on a Sunday in Berlin.
They pick up a couple of young women, and the four spend the day wandering the city streets before
heading to a beach in Wannsee, where they go swimming and enjoy an idyllic afternoon by the lake.
An early experiment in neo-realist filmmaking, Siodmak’s first film follows the whereabouts of a group
of Berliners of humble background in semi-documenatristic style. Influenced by Dsiga Wertow's Mann
Mit Der Kamera and Walter Ruttman’s Berlin, Die Sinfonie Der Grosstadt, the film was financed
independently by a group of young filmmakers (among which Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann and Edgar
G. Ulmer) who wished to show their nonchalant way of life and ended up making film history as the
avant-garde precursor of poetic realism.
Simone Giacomini studied piano and guitar before discovering electronic music. With a personal approach
of the score reading he started a new form of improvisation based on the geometrical lines that compose
the score itself. Since 1994 he has been member of different bands and produced contemporary, rock,
experimental music and composed soundtracks for movies and videos. Since 2004 he collaborates with
choreographer Gabriella Maiorino on several dance pieces and with other choreographers and visual artists
(Ezequiel Sanucci, Abdel Sarrokh, Mees Saskia and more).
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Friday 8th of January 2010 - 20.00h - Goethe Institut Amsterdam
FAUST
Dir. F. W. Murnau - Germany - 1926 - 114 min
New soundtrack by: Plieuw & Stefan Snijders
F.W. Murnau's colossal adaptation of Goethe’s FAUST ranks alongside Fritz Lang’s Metropolis as
the greatest achievement of the German silent cinema. Struggling with his faith amidst a devastating
plague, the titular alchemist impersonated by Gösta Ekman is offered the power to cure and the gift of
youth by the diabolical Mephisto (a stunning Emil Jannings) ... in exchange for his soul.
Plieuw is an experimental electronic music producer from Uithoorn. He works with a laptop,
analog poly synth, nintendo DSi, and an array of fx processors, making a wide range of different
electronic music productions.He releases for Plattergrondrecords.
Stefan Snijders is a writer an poet who likes to experiment with his verses.
For Faust he’ll write and perform live a new poem to accompany Plieuw’s score.
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Friday 6 november 2009 Goethe-Institut Amsterdam
Berlin:die symphony der grosstadt
Dir. Walter Ruttmann - Germany - 1927 - 65 min.
New soundtrack performed live by:
Apes Container_2
a collaboration of Alberto Novello & Elisa Martinuzzi
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Gresnica Bez Greha (Sinner Without Sin)
Dir. Kosta Novakovic - Yugoslavia – 1927 - 66 Min
New soundtrack performed live by:
Kingalita and Turo Rudi Gypsy band
Saturday 31st of October at Balkan Snapshot Film Festival Kriterion Amsterdam
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Frankenstein
Dir. James Whale - USA – 1931 - 71 Min
New soundtrack performed live by:
zZz
Friday 30th of October 2009 at Rocket Cinema Festival De Oudekerk Amsterdam
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Der müde Tod (Destiny)
Dir. Fritz Lang - Germany - 1921 - 82 Min
New soundtrack performed live by:
Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva
Friday 25 September 2009 Goethe-Institut Amsterdam
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Der letzte Mann (The Last Laugh)
Dir. F.W. Murnau - Germany - 1924 - 77 Min
New soundtrack performed live by:
Simone Giacomini & Thomas Myrmel
Friday 22nd of May 2009 Goethe Institut Amsterdam
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The Phantom Carriage
Dir. Victor Sjöström - Sweden - 1921 - 100 Min
New soundtrack performed live by:
Filippo Castellazzi
Michael Stratz
Mark Van Soest
Hakki Takki
Thursday 23 of April 2009 SMART Projectspace
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Vampyr
Dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer - Germany - 1932 - 75 Min
New soundtrack performed live by:
Filippo Castellazzi
Stephan Pliquett
Mark Van Soest
Hakki Takki
Sunday 23rd of November 2008 SMART Projectspace
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