Cinegogue 2016: The Second Sex: Tilly Losch, Stella Simon, Maya Deren

Prague

09. 10. 2016 19:30

Spanish synagogue, Vězeňská 1, Praha 1

Cinegogue 2016 turns its attention to Jewish female artists and protagonists who left an indelible mark not only in the realm of experimental cinematography but also in the realms of photography (Stella F. Simon, Maya Deren), dance (Tilly Losch, Maya Deren), and film theory (Maya Deren). In this eighth year of the Cinegogue program we go for the first time beyond 1929, considered the definitive end of the silent era, to present short films that were intentionally shot as silent experiments focused exclusively on cinematic language. All the films will be accompanied by new scores specially composed for the program and performed by Berg Orchestra and arranged by its artistic director and conductor Peter Vrábel.

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CINEGOGUE is a series that combines “cinema” with “synagogue” to screen silent films accompanied by live music in a historic space acclaimed for its architecture. Its mission is to uncover little known works of world cinematography to present a different view of Jewish culture and the artists of the post-emancipation period, which saw not only the inception of the international Zionist movement and the large waves of immigration from Central and Eastern Europe to the New World, but the frenetic growth of the avant-garde and cinema as well.

 

homepage-banner/banner_spanelka_expo.jpgThe premieres are annually held in the Spanish Synagogue, built in the Moorish Revival style in 1868. The most stunning of all Prague synagogues, it was long the natural spiritual center of the city’s German-speaking Jews. Its interior design from the 1880s brings to mind a luxurious theater or the charm of a nickelodeon, and interestingly enough, it was built around the same time, and perhaps for similar reasons, as the National Theater in Prague, a quasi-sacred structure that embodied the national identity and cultural emancipation of Czechs.

Thanks to the synagogue’s acoustic qualities, these gems from internationally important film archives are always accompanied by music from leading composers and performed live by outstanding musicians. When the original or reconstructed score still exists, and it is possible to synchronize it with the preserved copy of the film, then it is performed live. If the original score has not survived, then a new one is composed specially for the occasion.


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