Just time to let you know about Clonic Mutations, another silent film event taking place at Tate Modern as part of its Dali & Film strand, on Friday 20 July. Here’s the blurb:
Clonic Mutations features the world premiere of live new music scores created for a range of experimental films made between 1904 and 1952 with strong ties to surrealism. Composed for twelve musicians and clockwork toys by Sergio López Figueroa, a Spanish composer and specialist in silent film, the scores examine new contextual relationships between music, historical experimental film and art. The screening will feature the newly restored version of Un Chien andalou by Filmoteca Española.
Programme duration approx 60′
The Strength and Agility of Insects, F. Percy Smith, 1911, 3’58, DVD
A Phantasy, Norman McLaren, 1952, 7’15, 16mm
El Hotel eléctrico, Segundo de Chomón, 1904, 4′, digiBeta
Tusalava, Len Lye, 1929, 9′, 35mm
L’Étoile de mer, Man Ray, 1928, 18′, 35mm
Un Chien Andalou, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, 1929, 17′, 35mm
The Bioscope 