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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

4K restoration of the silent horror/noir with live musical accompaniment by MacMillan & Spengler.

"Caligari creates a mindscape, a subjective psychological fantasy. In this world, unspeakable horror becomes possible." - Roger Ebert

"A film like no other, a creepy masterpiece of arthouse and expressionist styles with plenty of genre appeal to go along with it." - Ian Jane, RockShockPop.com

"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari remains as weird and wonderful as ever, a true horror classic and an authentic milestone in the history of cinema." - Stuart Willis, Sex Gore Mutants

In 1920, one brilliant movie jolted the postwar masses and catapulted the movement known as German Expressionism into film history. That movie was The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a plunge into the mind of insanity that severs all ties with the rational world. Director Robert Wiene and a visionary team of designers crafted a nightmare realm in which light, shadow and substance are abstracted, a world in which a demented doctor and a carnival sleepwalker perpetrate a series of ghastly murders in a small community. This authoritative edition of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a 4K restoration scanned from the (mostly) preserved camera negative at the German Federal Film Archive.

Ian MacMillan and Brendan Lee Spengler have been creating experimental electronic music together for over a year. MacMillan, who teaches college philosophy courses, also performs solo under the Phosphenes moniker. Spengler has been playing in various rock and roll groups, including Viva La American Death Ray Music, which has done soundtracks for cult films. Using modular synthesizers, analog keyboards, and electric organ, the duo creates original compositions in the traditions of Terry Riley, Tangerine Dream, and Richard Wagner. For this performance, they will use sound design, themes, and melodies congruent to the film.

See this show after seeing Alloy Orchestra Presents: Man with a Movie Camera at the Englert Theatre.  Bring in you Alloy Orchestra ticket stub for discounted $5 tickets.