Nosferatu invades NY InsideOut

A vampire was  spotted among the hundreds new yorkers and tourists that passed by InsideOut‘s photobooth installed in Times Square.

Nosferatus: InsideOutNY

Nosferatus: InsideOutNY

The project, started by the street artist JR, is the largest collaborative art project in the world, having pasted more than 150.000 portraits in more than 8.500 places around the world.

InsideOut: Map

InsideOut: Map

And yesterday a very strange character was spotted  there having his picture taken, and sucking some beautiful blondie blood too…

Nosferatu sucks InsideOut Gina's blood

Nosferatu sucks InsideOut Gina’s blood

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Nosferatu is screened with live soundtrack in London

Richmond Harding is a musician, writer, illustrator and dreamer. He interviews musicians and industry personnel, and reviews music and gigs.

He has been following Minima, a band that define themselves as “an audacious 21st-Century interpretation of the images of silent and avant-garde film”.

Billed originally in its day as “a symphony of horror”,  Nosferatu is taken directly from Bram Stoker’s Dracula: the original vampire story.

Nosferatu

Nosferatu, 1922

After having watched them performing the soundtrack for The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari  at the Reading University (UK), Harding attended their performance for Nosferatu, at the Prince Charles Theatre, in London.

More primeval it is too perhaps, vampires and sex seem intertwined in the Victorian mind. All heaving bosoms and delicate lily white necks.

Harding praises Minima’s ability to create the sound atmosphere that’s required to enhance the experience of 21st century movie-goers when watching an old silent masterpiece.

Minima playing for Nosferatu

Minima playing for Nosferatu (photograph by Dean Feltimo)

The inspiration is drawn directly from the screenplay and enlivens the atmosphere, charging it with positive ions, bringing these old masterpieces firmly onto a contempory stage.

via Review of Minima, Nosferatu, Prince Charles Theatre, Leicester Square, London.

Nosferatu is featured in the “Outras Coisas” show

The webTV show UNIESP covered the closing of the 36th edition of the São Paulo International Film Festival, when a restored version of the FW Murnau‘s classic silent movie from 1922, was projected on the outside wall of the Ibirapuera Auditorium, with soundtrack performed live by the Orchestra Petrobras Symphony, with accompanying chorus Project X

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