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| Monday 15th | 8.30pm | Cork Opera House |
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My Grandmother
The Beth Custer Ensemble Perform A Live Film Score
Kote Mikaberidze
Georgia | 1929 | 65mins | Beta | Black & White | Subtitled
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Forgotten for half a century, Kote Mikaberidze’s film is a delightful, joyously grotesque example of the Soviet Eccentric Cinema movement as well as an irreverent satire of the then-still young Soviet State system. Noted for its anarchic styles – some of which include stop-motion, puppetry, exaggerated camera angles, animation and constructivist sets – the film unspools the foibles and follies that abound when a Georgian paper pusher, modelled after American silent comic Harold Lloyd, loses his job. The film’s final cry ‘Death to Red Tape!’ proved to be prophetic – the film was released in 1929 and banned for 37 years thereafter.
To accompany the screening Beth Custer has created a quick-paced score, which incorporates elements of jazz, blues and bluegrass. The Beth Custer Ensemble comprises drummer Jan Jackson, guitarist David James, bassist Mark Calderon with special guests Chris Grady (trumpet), Dina Maccabee (violin) and Jessica Ivry (cello). Special guest for this Cork performance is theatre director Pat Talbot (Narrator).
Beth Custer is a San Francisco-based composer, performer, producer, bandleader and the proprietor of BC records. As well as her involvement in a number of outfits that explore a variety of musical styles she is also a founding member of the notorious silent film soundtrack outfit The Club Foot Orchestra.
In 2000, the Pacific Film Archive commissioned Beth to create a live soundtrack for My Grandmother. Beth then received an Aaron Copland Recording Fund award in 2003, to record and produce the soundtrack.
Custer's talent is too restless and wide-ranging to be pinned down to one category, but whatever she does is worth hearing. – The Guardian
www.bethcuster.com
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