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Alloy Orchestra Present: A Page of Madness

Live at The Englert Theatre
Wednesday, September 27 at 7pm (doors at 6:30pm)
Co-presented by FilmScene and The Englert Theatre

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$15 student/senior

A PAGE OF MADNESS

"Page of Madness is even wilder than it looks." - Ken Winkour (Alloy Orchestra)

This Japanese silent film is a visual treat. One of the rare Japanese silents to survive WWII, this film is unlike anything you’ve ever seen. This newly restored version was completed by master restorationist David Shepard, and is available for the first time in the U.S. Lost for 45 years until rediscovered in the 70's in a warehouse, it is an enduring piece of the Shinkankakuha (or School of New Perceptions) avant-garde group of Japanese artists. "Using superimpositions, rapid and insistent visual patterns, fantasy sequences, and the visual flamboyance of actors impersonating mad people, A Page of Madness builds an atmosphere of astonishing intensity," writes film critic Chris Fujiwara.

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa, A Page of Madness takes place in a countryside asylum and loosely tells the story of its janitor.

ALLOY ORCHESTRA

Alloy Orchestra has been called "the best in the world at accompanying silent films" by Roger Ebert, and features multi-instrumentalist Terry Donahue, director and percussionist (and former Iowa City resident) Ken Winokur, and keyboardist Roger C. Miller. Past films presented by Alloy Orchestra at the Englert include "Metropolis," "Nosferatu," "The General," "Lonesome," and "Man With a Movie Camera."

"100 Most Creative People in Entertainment…Telluride Film Festival faves, these Boston-based musicians have rejuvenated the art of silent film with thrillingly quirky, percussive scores." —Entertainment Weekly

"The maestros of sproing-and-chunk grandeur." —The Nation

"Accompaniment is really an inadequate description of the voodoo they do with their strange and wonderful repertoire of sonic surprises." —Detroit Metro Times