Haxan Excerpt with A Murder of Angels Soundscape

On Saturday, the 31st October 2009, MonkeyTown of Brooklyn, New York presented Haxan, the 1922 classic documentary in six parts to a SOLD OUT audience.

Live scores were performed by:

Jeremy Slater & Tamara Yadao
A Murder of Angels (Bryin Dall & Derek Rush)
Phil Puleo
Christopher Russo
Maxx Klaxon
Bradford Reed

Narration by William Burroughs

Written and directed by Benjamin Christensen (also appearing as Satan)

One of the most controversial films of the silent era, Häxan is a dramatized documentary of the practice and persecution of witchcraft in the middle ages. The elaborate production made it the most expensive Scandinavian silent film ever made. Although it was
celebrated in its native country, it was widely banned and censored elsewhere for the elaborate images of Satanism and the Inquisition, closely following medieval engravings referenced in the film.

Christensen conceived the film as an academic work, seeking to compare the experience of professed or accused witches to psychiatric patients of the modern era.
For the 1941 re-release, he added an on-screen lecture, which he delivered in lab coat from a hospital setting.

For the 2009 Halloween live score performance, MonkeyTown screened the 1968 release, which includes William Burroughs narrating many of the intertitles (allowing them to pare the film down from a demanding 1hr 44min to a more digestible 1hr 4min).

This is approximately 9 1/2 minutes of the 16+ minutes performed by A Murder of Angels.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Haxan
• Silent
• Movie
• William
• Burroughs
• Dambient
• Damnbient
• Ambiant
• Electronica
• soundtrack
• film

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