Faust with Immersive Live Score
Murnau’s Faust (1926) is reimagined in a new immersive live cinema performance marking 250 years since Goethe’s first draft of Faust and the centenary of its landmark expressionist adaptation performed by The Enchanted Cinema:
Celeste Cantor-Stephens — trumpet, foley FX
Caelia Lunniss — violin, foley FX
Kieron Chissik — guitar, organ, electric viola, and choral FX
Murnau’s Faust (1926) is a landmark of German Expressionist cinema, using bold imagery and dramatic light and shadow to tell its story of a pact with the devil and a world in moral collapse. Here, the film is carried by the live score: trumpet cutting through the action with lines stretched through delay and space, violin tracing folk-inspired melodies through its emotional shifts, and electric viola & vocal FX shaped in real time into layered textures that expand the film’s atmosphere in addition to a host of ingenious foley sound FX.
Following acclaimed performances at LSO St Luke’s, Horniman Museum and Gardens, and Abney Cemetery, this is a rare chance to experience a landmark of early cinema brought vividly to life. Supported by the BFI, awarding National Lottery funding through Audience Projects Fund. A Cabinet of Living Cinema CIC production.
Find out more about The Enchanted Cinema tour here.
Event information
- Entrance and exit for this event will be via London Road only
- Please note that the Pavilion is at the top of the Gardens, accessed from our London Road entrance via a hill
- Drinks and refreshments will be available to purchase from the Gardens Kiosk at the start of the event