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Silent Film Sunrise – A Song of Two Humans
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Lansdown Hall
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Director – F W Murnau
Elizabeth-Jane Baldry – Harp
One of the most revered films of all time, a stunning masterpiece and a
pinnacle of craft which belies the resources of the time, Sunrise won the
Academy Award for Unique & Artistic Picture at the very first Academy Awards in 1929.
Tickets available here
£10 under 18s £5
The only silent movie harpist in the world, performing live accompaniment to cinema screenings of early film, Elizabeth-Jane’s compositions have been used by ITV, BBC and Irish, Japanese, Danish and Canadian film, radio and television.
“Elizabeth-Jane conjured 95 minutes of riveting musical commentary
on the story, with sounds ranging from startling metallic eruptions at
moments of shock plot developments, through foot-tapping jazz-age
tunes in the dance-hall sequence, to voluptuous pastoral romances and
affecting melodies drawing us into deeper empathy with the characters’
emotional troubles.”
Review of Sunrise, Wiveliscombe Silent Film Festival.