Experimental cinema reimagined with contemporary sounds.
As part of the 2025 midwinter Lōemis Festival, Anemic Cinema conjures up the surrealist spirit of early avant-garde film by matching experimental films with contemporary live scores played with panache by Stroma. Highlights include two world premieres: Len Lye’s primordial Tusalava with newly imagined score by Andrew Faleatua featuring Pacific drums, and David Long’s dazzling take on David Downes’s hypnotic animation Fish, Moon. In addition, composers Olga Neuwirth, Iris ter Schiphorst, Yannis Kyriakides and Feona Lee Jones breathe new life into well-known classics of early experimental cinema by Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Marc Allégret, Maya Deren and Viking Eggeling. This concert sees sound and image collide in ecstatic abstraction — come join us at the Roxy for a night to remember.
PROGRAMME
Andrew Faleatua: Tusalava (premiere) — film by Len Lye
David Long: Fish, Moon (premiere) — film by David Downes
Yannis Kyriakides: Anémic Cinéma — film by Marcel Duchamp/Man Ray/Marc Allégret
Feona Lee Jones: String Quartet No. 2 “Adrenaline” — film by Maya Deren
Iris ter Schiphorst: Un Chien Andalou — film by Luis Buñuel/Salvador Dalí
Olga Neuwirth: Symphonie Diagonale — film by Viking Eggeling
