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Silent Cinema with Live Scores

See classic silent films from across the world, paired with live music scores performed by some of Australia’s leading musician-composers.

Screenings

Event Details

Category

Screenings

Event Starts

Feb 25, 2025 20:00

Event Ends

Feb 27, 2025 22:00

Add to Calendar 02/25/2025 12:00 AM 02/27/2025 12:00 AM Australia/Melbourne Silent Cinema with Live Scores See classic silent films from across the world, paired with live music scores performed by some of Australia’s leading musician-composers.
Venue

Fed Square (Main Square)

Location

Corner Swanston St & Flinders St, Melbourne VIC 3000

For three days this summer, experience a mini open-air film festival with a difference, featuring a program of classic Indian and American silent films with live music accompaniment.

Each of the film’s scores has been composed specifically for each film, and will be performed by the composers and guests, showcasing bluegrass, Butchulla songman and classical Indian styles of music.

With films traversing the spectra of Indian folktales to early Hollywood monster films and Buster Keaton physical comedy classics, this event series is one to entrance film-lovers and music-lovers alike.

Pack a picnic and pull up a deck chair – and join us in celebrating the innovation and magic of the early days of cinema, on the Big Screen.

Tuesday 25 February, 8pm: Ramayana and other tales, with live score by Hari Sivanesan 
Wednesday 26 February, 8pm: The Lost World (1925), with live score by Fred Leone
Thursday 27 February, 8pm: One Week (1920) and Sherlock Jr. (1924), with live score by Blue Grassy Knoll 

Presented by Fed Square, in partnership with Insite Arts.

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