Cinema St. Louis presents
The Classic French Film Festival
French Avant-Garde Silent Shorts
Featuring musical accompaniment by
HEARding Cats Collective musicians
Sunday, Jun 16 – 7 pm
Winifred Moore Auditorium – campus of Webster University
470 East Lockwood
Admission: $12 GA / $10 for students, Cinema St. Louis members
Free for Webster U students

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HEARding Cats Collective is excited to provide live musical accompaniment to a program of French avant-garde silent films, curated by Cinema St. Louis.  Featured musicians include:

-Asako Kuboki (violin, SLSO – current)

-Tim Myers (trombone, SLSO – current)

-Rich O’Donnell (SeeSaw drums, digital synthesizer, SLSO – retired)

-Doc Mabuse (analog synthesizer)

-Kevin Harris (analog synthesizer)

This program includes five key Dadaist/surrealist shorts from the French avant-garde of the 1920s: Ballet Mécanique, Fernand Léger, 1924, 11 min.; The Seashell and the Clergyman/La coquille et le clergyman, Germaine Dulac, 1926, 41 min.; Anémic Cinéma, Marcel Duchamp, 1926, 6 min.; Leave Me Alone/Emak-Bakia, Man Ray, 1926, 16 min.; and The Three-Sided Mirror/La glace à trois faces, Jean Epstein, 1927, 33 min.

Intro/discussion by R D Zurick, former adjunct professor of film studies at Webster University and St. Louis Community College at Forest Park