On Saturday 28 September, Matthew Nolan (guitar and electronics) and Rachel Grimes (piano and electronics), with guest Mary Barnecutt (cello) perform in Triskel to bring a new, original live score to this cinematic paean to the last days of Weimar Germany.
People on Sunday was released in 1930 and was a major hit. Filmed on location in Berlin, using a cast of amateurs in roles based on their actual day jobs, it sustains a lyrical tranquility as people swim, listen to music, flirt, and generally enjoy their time away from the daily grind. The film was an unassuming but groundbreaking response to the big-budget films being produced by UFA at the time, and boasted a crew of young German cineastes who would later become major filmmakers in Hollywood: Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Fred Zinnemann, and Billy Wilder.
“The new musical score to People on Sunday is based on a creative response to that which we don’t see. This compositional strategy allows us to echo those internal psychological and narrative meanings behind and beyond the images. For us there is a haunting duality to Siodmak and Ulmer’s vision of 1930s Berlin and the new score reflects this sense of social or even political turbulence. Ultimately, our aim is to offer the viewer another way of seeing the movie apart from the surface view.” Matthew and Rachel.
Saturday Sep 28, 2019
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM IST
€18
Triskel Box Office, 021-4272022
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