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.