Join us for a scree ning of the 1923 silent film Das alte Gesetz (The Ancient Law)\, directed by E.A. Dupont\, with German/English intertitles\, wit h musicians Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin performing the live score.
< p>Tickets are free but advanced registration is required. To reserve your s pot\, visit the Chan Centre website: https://chancentre.com/events/ancient-law-fil m-screening/Beautifully restored in 2017\, with a superb cast (H enny Porten\, Ernst Deutsch and others)\, it’s the story of a rabbi’s son w ho leaves the shtetl to become an actor at the Burgtheater in Vienna. The r abbi is not pleased. Porten plays an archduchess who develops an interest i n the boy. Her courtiers are not pleased. Trouble ensues on both fronts.
The Musicians: Alicia Svigals\, violin\, and Donald Sosin\, keyboard
Violinist/composer Alicia Svigals is the world’s leading klezmer fiddle r and a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics. She has worked with violi nist Itzhak Perlman\, the Kronos Quartet\, playwrights Tony Kushner and Eve Ensler\, poet Allen Ginsburg\, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin \, Debbie Friedman and Chava Albershteyn. Svigals was awarded a Foundation for Jewish Culture commission for her original score to the 1918 film The Y ellow Ticket\, and is a MacDowell fellow. With jazz pianist Uli Geissendoer fer\, she recently released Beregovski Suite \, a recording of contemporary interpretations of klezmer music from a long-lost Soviet Jewish archive.
Pianist/composer Donald Sosin grew up in Rye\, NY and Munich\, Germany . Since 1971 has performed his silent film music at Lincoln Center\, MoMA\, BAM\, the National Gallery\, Yale\, Harvard\, and major film festivals in the US and abroad (Pordenone\, Bologna\, Berlin\, Moscow\, Bangkok\, Shangh ai\, etc). He records for various DVD labels: Criterion\, Kino\, Milestone and his scores are heard frequently on TCM. He and his family live in north west Connecticut. Donald is currently touring with Alicia Svigals\, perform ing their collaborative scores for ‘The Ancient Law’ and ‘City Without Jews ’.
Co-sponsored by the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts\, Public H umanities Hub\, Centre for European Studies\, UBC Diamond Chair in Jewish L aw and Ethics\, Department of History\, Bachelor of Media Studies\, Central \, Eastern & Northern European Studies\, and UBC Film Society.
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