Four of the oldest Romanian shorts kept at the National Film Archives are part of the ShortsUP Musicology program, to unfold on Saturday, February 27th, and on Sunday, February 28th, starting from 8:00 pm at Bucharest Radio Hall.
Over two evenings, the viewers will be challenged to discover the synergies between music and film through a series of visual and acoustic experiments. Brought back to the big screen in a novel form, the Romanian shorts:
Haplea (1927),
Divertisment de dansuri (Dancing Entertainment, 1930),
Gogulică CFR (1928) and
Bucureşti, oraşul contrastelor (Bucharest, the City of Contrasts, 1936) will be accompanied live de 11 instruments of the Symphactory Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Jinga.
The second part of the Musicology program is dedicated to shorts that have rhythm playing the „leading role”; such shorts are either modern Broadway-like musicals, like
Pressure-Man (directed by Kai Kuei-Chieh Hsu, SUA, 2015), or experimental films exploring hip-hop subculture, like
Spit Gold Under an Empire (directed by Emily Kai Bock, SUA, 2013). At the end of the two screening nights, the viewers will be invited to select the best musical short, which will be rewarded with a prize of 1000 Euros as
ShortsUP Audience Award, a competition designed to encourage diversity in short features' production and
distribution.
The Musicology program will also include the shorts
Muzica în sânge (Music in My Blood) (directed by Alexandru Mavrodineanu),
Vibrația (The Vibration) (directed by
Germain Kanda) and
Fly (directed by
Andrei Dăscălescu and by Victor Dragoș).
Outside the theatre hall, the viewers will be able to experience the particular ShortsUP atmosphere through
silent cinema – by listening, through headphones, to challenging testimonials on music, but also through an interactive unique gear that combines graphic sensors, video mapping and sound, created by
OnScreen.
For further details, go to:
Shortsup.ro //
Program
