What: 3rd German Silent Film Festival
Where: Greenbelt 1 Cinema 1
When: Tuesdays from August 15 to September 5, 2006.
Lineup:
August 15 – The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, music by Radioactive Sago Project
Dr Caligari exhibits clairvoyant sleepwalker Cesare at a fair and challenges his audience to ask him anything about the future. When Alan inquires after the date of his own death, he learns that he only has until dawn to live. That very night Alan is murdered. In the meantime, Cesare becomes infatuated with Jane, the daughter of the town doctor, and kidnaps her but is hunted down by the townspeople. Jane’s fiance Francis follows Caligari and discovers his real identity…or does he?
August 22 – Tabu, music by Bo Razon
Filmed entirely in Tahiti, “Tabu” represented an unusual collaboration
between legendary directors F. W. Murnau and Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North). Two lovers are doomed by a tribal edict decreeing that the girl is “tabu” to all men. While the lovers’ flight from judgement and the ultimate power of the tabu are reminiscent of Murnau’s expressionist films, the film is all open air and sunlight. “Tabu” was the 1931 Academy Award winner for Best Cinematography.
August 29 – The Golem, music by Drip
Widely recognized as the source of the Frankenstein myth, the ancient Hebrew legend of the Golem is adapted by Paul Wegener in this silent classic. Suffering under the tyrannical rule of Rudolf II in 16th-century Prague, a Talmudic rabbi creates the Golem, a giant warrior, to protect the safety of his people. Sculpted of clay and animated by the mysterious secrets of the Kabbalah, the figure is a seemingly indestructible juggernaut, performing acts of great heroism, yet equally capable of dreadful violence. When the rabbi’s assistant takes control of the Golem and attempts to use him for selfish gain, the lumbering monster runs rampant, abducting the rabbi’s daughter and setting fire to the ghetto.
September 5 – Asphalt, music by Cynthia Alexander
A well-dressed lady thief steals a precious stone from a jewellery shop. The aged jeweller prefers to let the young woman go, but the policeman who catches her explains he is obliged to pursue the case further. She tries to seduce the policeman, and he gradually succumbs to her charms, but her criminal background dooms their relationship when an argument leads to murder.
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