NOSFERATU, A LIVE SCORING
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NOSFERATU, A LIVE SCORING
October 23, 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
$12 – $25
About this project:
This year marks the 101st anniversary of F.W. Murnau’s classic film, Nosferatu. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary last year, Nashville’s nonprofit film center the Belcourt Theatre commissioned an original score from Nashville-based electronic/ambient artists Dream Chambers, Eve Maret, and Belly Full Of Stars. This fall, the artists are bringing their brand new live score to cities across America. This endeavor was the second such collaboration between these artists and the Belcourt Theatre. In 2019, Dream Chambers, Eve Maret, and Belly Full Of Stars each contributed a Belcourt-commissioned score for the theatre’s Sci-Lent Cinema Night – Featuring nine silent films presented on 16mm and new digital restorations of films by women and African-American film pioneers with live musical accompaniment by nine musicians from Hyasynth House electronic music collective.
About Nosferatu: A cornerstone of the horror film, F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror is resurrected in an HD edition mastered from the acclaimed 35mm restoration by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung. This edition offers unprecedented visual clarity and historical faithfulness to the original release version.
An unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Nosferatu remains to many viewers the most unsettling vampire film ever made, and its bald, spidery vampire, personified by the diabolical Max Schreck, continues to spawn imitations in the realm of contemporary cinema. (Synopsis courtesy of Kino Lorber)
“It doesn’t scare us, but it haunts us. It shows not that vampires can jump out of shadows, but that evil can grow there, nourished on death.” – Roger Ebert
“If you don’t own it, by all means get this latest remastering.” – Huffington Post
About the Artists
Belly Full Of Stars is the electronic sound project of Nashville-based artist, composer, and recordist Kim Rueger. Blending FM synths and recordings with live modular and granular processes she improvises highly textured compositions that veer ambient, recomposing sounds in the world around her into new aural facets.
Kim has collaborated with artist and groups worldwide and across mediums on recordings, scores, soundscapes, and performances – notably as pianist with the Nashville Ambient Ensemble, and on her cycle-focused co-release, “Conjunctions”, with multi-instrumentalist, composer, and singer Meg Mulhearn. She has recorded work on Courier, Triplicate, Fallen Moon Recordings, and Past Inside the Present labels, with an album of modular processed piano compositions newly in the works.