CABARET CINEMA

This , Millennium Film Workshop invites you to an evening of short works from the silent era, presented with by some of Brooklyn’s most talented musicians. In the early days of cinema, only high-production, prestigious films would have composed, dedicated scores and more often than not, the music which played behind a film could vary wildly from town to town wherever a film travelled, left largely in the hands of professional accompanists. These accompanists rarely had time to compose full scores, as the films playing in a theater would change from day to day, and they often had to rely on their skills of improvisation, often scoring a film in real time as they laid eyes on it for the first time, experiencing it alongside the audience.Saturday, March 30Cabaret Cinema,live musical accompaniment

In the spirit of those times, Saturday’s program will feature three short silent classics, with live improvisational scores…