Lonesome, a silent film (1. Machines)

Pál Fejös, director

dur. 69 minutes

- This is a very strange and experimental scene from Lonesome, a silent film from 1928 starring Barbara Kent and Glenn Tyron. Here the two lovers live their workday through a montage of clocks and machines with increasing intensity.

Live musical accompaniment composed and improvised by Trevor Gureckis, piano; and Caroline Shaw, violin.

Premiere: April 18th, 2008 as part of the Cinema at the Whitney film series at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Lonesome
• Silent
• Pal
• Fejos
• Barbara
• Kent
• Glenn
• Tyron
• Trevor
• Gureckis
• Caroline
• Shaw
• Piano
• Violin
• Music
• Whitney
• Yale
• Machines

[Qroyd]

did you get your copy from the guy on ebay? i wanted to get a copy for myself, but he hasn't listed at lately, i love the music alloy orchestra came up for it

[Saturnome]

Wow, man! Looks and sounds great! Amazing to see a few minutes from this film. I heard about it so much, but I live too far away from any places they may ever screen it.

I'd love to see it full...