LIGHT YEAR 82: Moving Silence
Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
ONLINE: 2-10pm EST
LIVE: Dusk - 10pm @ Pearl Street Triangle; DUMBO, Brooklyn
Berlin Premiere:
SCOPE BLN
Lübecker Straße 43, 10559, Berlin
Thursday, February 3rd, 8:45-10pm CET
Canada Premiere:
THE DREY
Woodbine Ave, East York, ON M4C 4E1, Canada
Thursday, February 3rd, 6-10 PM EST
A screen is illuminated, the lights move on it. Those lights are images that tell a story. There is no sound, like in the paintings of the Renaissance. The sounds sing and speak only in the head of every single viewer: an orchestration just thought but loud as the most intense concert.
“...the easiness of explaining all by words has polluted our story-telling to a pale shadow of original cinema. (...) since flm started to gamble with mumbling and all that ‘hoochie-coochie’ and fancy words, stories have lost their purity, cinema its essence: innocence.”
Aki Kaurismäki
For "Light Year 82,“ I created the program "Moving Silence“ (named after the contemporary silent cinema platform I founded together with Matthias Fritsch in 2009). The selection consists of 4 very different films, however one element unites them: a very strong poetic charge. Regardless of the style used, the "technical simpleness“ of these works enhances the essence. The musical accompaniment this time is performed by New York City itself (where the films are projected), with its sounds, noises, voices...
-- Marco Brosolo, Berlin 2021
Featuring work by SHOXXX, Giovanni De Roia, and Maren-Kea Freese
Curated by Marco Brosolo.