MARCEL PEREZ - Anything But Silent

Anything But Silent...Live Theatre Organ Accompaniment by Ben Model

Showings

Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Tue, May 10, 2016 7:30 PM

Description

Anything But Silent………………………Live Theatre Organ Accompaniment by Ben Model

MARCEL PEREZ
Special guest: silent film historian Steve Massa, author of Lame Brains and  Lunatics
Tuesday, May 10 at 7:30pm


This event is sponsored by AARP. AARP Members will receive the CAC Member price of $10.

$10 Members | $15 Public

 

Marcel Perez is perhaps the best silent film comedian no one's ever heard of. Part of the first generation of screen clowns, his career began in 1900 and flourished until 1928. During that time he helped create the ground rules for the genre in Europe and continued to advance the art form in America. An international favorite, Perez was, along with Max Linder, one of the few direct links between European and American silent comedy, and made more than 200 starring shorts. The obscurity that he's fallen into today is due to the scarcity of his surviving work, complicated by a peripatetic career which included multiple name changes (Robinet, Tweedy, Marcel Fabre, Fernandea Perez, etc.). This program consists of new HD transfers of surviving Perez works, in most cases sourced from their sole surviving print, from the collections of the Library of Congress and the EYE Filmmuseum (Netherlands). Total program approx. 90 min, DCP.

ROBINET'S WHITE SUIT (1911)
ROBINET IS LOVED TOO MUCH BY HIS WIFE (1912)
ROBINET IS JEALOUS (1914)
A BUSY NIGHT (1916)
SWEET DADDY (1921)


Ben Model is one of America’s leading silent film accompanists, and has been playing piano and organ for silent films at the New York MoMA since 1984, and the CAC since 2006.