Live Music & Film: After Death 1915 + The Fall of the House of Usher 1928 Ages 15+
When
6.30pm, Fri 15 Oct 2021 (130 mins)About
Presented as part of the 'Ghost Stories: Spirits, Hauntings and Worlds Beyond' program, this Live Music & Film event brings together two gothic horror masterpieces from the silent era: Yevgeni Bauer's After Death 1915 (45 mins) and Jean Epstein's The Fall of the House of Usher 1928 (65 mins). This event will include a 20 minute intermission between the films.
After Death is a brooding tale of obsession from Soviet filmmaker Yevgeni Bauer, in which the line between life and death becomes increasingly blurred. The film follows a reclusive young scholar who falls in love with the lead actress of a play he attends. They share a surprise connection, however their romance soon takes a fateful turn. Although not as well known as later Soviet cinematic pioneers such as Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, Bauer was an innovative and skilful director with a theatrical flair for enthralling melodrama.
French filmmaker Jean Epstein's The Fall of the House of Usher is a spellbinding adaptation of the classic Edgar Allan Poe story. Roderick Usher resides in a crumbling mansion with his dying wife Madeleine. A visit from an old friend coincides with the death of Madeleine — a death that Roderick, in his fraying sanity, cannot accept. Renowned for its bewitching atmosphere and experimental flourishes, Epstein's film is a masterful achievement in otherworldly filmmaking.
Tickets
General $20 | Concession $18 | Member $16
Ages 15+
Production Credits
- Director /Script: Yevgeni Bauer
- Based on: the Novel by Ivan Turgenev
- Cinematographers: Boris Zavelev, Jean Lucas
- Production Companies: Khanzhonkov, Films Jean Epstein
- Print Source: Gosfilmofond
- Screening Format: French Intertitles (English Subtitles), DCP, 35mm
- Director: Jean Epstein
- Script: Jean Epstein
- Print Source / Rights: la Cinémathèque Française
- Runtime: 130 minutes
- Country: Soviet Union
- Subtitles: English Intertitles
- Sound: Silent
- Colour: bw