Out-of-frames, or the lost immortals

Past editions of the video-music series at Palazzo Cini at San Vio

2005 Thirty days hath September. Pilgrims at the Mecca of rare music
2006 The Backdoor or Le Salon des Refusés or All the Feasts at the Temple (of rare music)
2007 Hello Mr. Fogg! Round the world in music on fifty-two Saturdays
2008 The Ludwig Van Picture Show
2009 »… Play-rew-forward-stop …«

This year the annual audio-video music series continues with two ‘parades’ of music in fi lm at the Palazzo Cini on Saturday afternoons.
The thirteen films selected all have sound tracks whose musical structure dominates the power of images, that is in these fi lms the story narrated dies out in its own sonority or its own silences.
The fi lms are deemed to be lost “immortal” masterpieces, because of the fact they are so rarely seen, and “out of the frame” since they were not conceived to remain in frame but rather to soar into an ineffable and intangible sublime dimension. The fi lms will be “revived” at the Palazzo Cini in a confi dential atmosphere of homage to their fragile textuality and to their composers, artists and directors.

Spring parade
20 March Joris Ivens & Marceline Loridan: Une histoire de vent (1988)
27 March Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, George Antheil & Co: “Sonorous and silent lights, movements. An anthology (1923-1941)”
10 April Joris Ivens & Gérard Philipe: Till l’Éspiègle (1956)
17 April Detlef Sierck alias Douglas Sirk: Das Hofkonzert (1936)
24 April Pare Lorentz & Virgil Thomson: The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) & The River (1938)
1 May Straub & Huillet: Die Antigone des Sophokles nach der Hölderlinschen Übertragung
für die Bühne bearbeitet von Brecht 1948 (1992)
8 May Wim Wenders: Palermo Shooting (2008)

Autumn parade
4 September Joris Ivens & Hanns Eisler: Zuiderzeewerken (1930) & Komsomolsk (1932)
11 September Straub & Huillet & Schoenberg: Moses und Aron (1975)
23 October Takeshi Kitano & Joe Hisaishi: Ano natsu, ichiban shizukana umi (1991)
30 October Alain Resnais: Providence (1977)
6 November Satyajit Ray: Jalsaghar (1957)
13 November Jean-Luc Godard: Passion (1982)