Film Concert “Nosferatu”
Wed 27 May 2015, 8 pm
Goethe Institut
From Goethe Institut:
The silent film Nosferatu (1922) by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau represents one of the first horror movies. Centre of the story is the Vampire Count Orlok, who spreads fear and terror and can only be stopped by beautiful Ellen. The expressive effects were already emphasized in the original version by dramatic film music. Conductor Do Kien Cuong and the team of composer in charge Ad van Dongen are now approaching the film in a new way to exploit musically the whole potential of the story. Nosferatu was shortened and condensed, the music new composed. In this way a fully new silent film experience with live music will be created.
As a part of the European Month the Goethe-Institut is pleased to support this special project by giving it stage.
Ad van Dongen works as a composer and sound designer since 1999. He specialized in composing and conducting for documentaries, but he is also interested in abstract sound design like sound design of paintings. Van Dogen received several awards, e.g. the Golden calf national film award, Prix d’Europe, Golden Webby Award.
The composer and conductor Do Kien Cuong studied in New York, where he started experimentating with new forms of notation and use of electronic elements. In 1999 he founded the Hanoi Youth Orchestra. In previous years he started the Duong Dai Festival and the Beethoven Symphony Project. Since 2014 he is member of the Hanoian Trio and currently working as a music lecturer of Troy University in Ho Chi Minh City and National University of Art Education in Hanoi.
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1888-1931) was one of the most important silent film directors and changed the genre through the introduction of moving camera. After he received three academy awards in Hollywood for his work, he addressed himself for a documentary with fictional elements in Polynesia.
Free Admission.
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