Tickets at Heritage Playhouse
Thanks to the Sunshine Coast Film Society
for their support
Film trailer (with a different score)
Composer’s Statement
I fell in love with early silent movies the day I watched the original Nosferatu on a tiny kitchen television one afternoon after high school. It was like seeing something that was beamed from another dimension and I was hooked.
In the 1990s, on unemployment after touring with Nirvana, I offered my services as house accompanist at a scrappy Seattle storefront theater, the Pike Street Cinema, run by projectionist, curator, collector and scholar Dennis Nyback.
Since then I have composed for and performed with dozens of early silent films solo, with small ensembles and with my band the Black Cat Orchestra. My work has been commissioned and/or presented by the Cineteca Nacional de Mèxico, the Frye Art Museum, the Fine Arts Cinema, and throughout the US and Europe.
I love the process of translating visual motion into sound, and my compositions and long-form solo improvisation are deeply influenced by cinematic visual storytelling.
– Lori Goldston, cellist www.lorigoldston.com