Villa Aurora Events Archive
March 2016
Fellow Screening | Anja Marquardt | She's Lost Control
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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(New Directors/New Films, Lincoln Center)
Q&A with director Anja Marquardt after the screening.
Los Angeles
68projects (Fasanenstraße 68, 10719 Berlin)
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Berlin - L.A. Trilogy III
Participating artists
Marcel Buehler | Hans Diernberger
Veronika Kellndorfer | Anna McCarthy
Hans-Christian Schink | David Zink-Yi
SILENT SALON SPECIAL
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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NOSFERATU
with live musical accompaniment by Markus Horn
F.W. Murnau, Germany 1922, 94 min., silent, digitally restored complete version (2006)
With new piano soundtrack by Markus Horn
Shot in 1921 and released in 1922, Nosferatu was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, with names and other details changed because the studio could not obtain the rights to the novel (for instance, "vampire" became "Nosferatu" and "Count Dracula" became "Count Orlok"). Stoker's heirs sued over the adaptation, and a court ruling ordered that all copies of the film be destroyed. However, one print of Nosferatu survived, and the film came to be regarded as an influential masterpiece of cinema.
Participant
Markus Horn’s musical language goes beyond the typical influences of late romanticism, bringing new impulses and fresh sounds to the world of silent film accompaniment.
In recent years Horn performed his music to Fritz Lang's masterpiece "Metropolis" at shows all over the world, receiving standing ovations for his intense symbiosis of film and music. With" Nosferatu" he is now presenting his second soundtrack to a German silent film, which sees its U.S. premiere at this year’s San Luis Obispo International Film Festival.
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Eclectic Salon
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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Sounds of Exile
Austrian Composers in the U.S.
Sigrid Hagn, piano and Julia Ammerer-Simma, cello
play works by Arnold Schoenberg, Alexander Zemlinsky, Eric Zeisl, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Fritz Kreisler, Wally Weigl and Karl Weigl.
Sigrid Hagn is the founder of the mozARTE-Quintet Salzburg. The ensemble was chosen to represent Austria in the course of a major tour in Turkey, at the celebrations for the 2010 European cultural capital Istanbul. The quintet is touring internationally.
Cellist Julia Ammerer-Simma plays with Camerata Salzburg, Salzburger Kammerphilharmonie, Girardi Trio, and Mozarte Trio.
Partner
The Sounds of Exile is a cooperation with the Austrian Consulate General.
Screening of "Sanctuary"
Goethe-Institut Los Angeles (5750 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 100, Los Angeles CA 90036)
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Sanctuary
Dir. Marc Brummund. Cinematography: Judith Kaufmann. Editor: Hans Funck.
Germany, 2015, 104 min. German with english subtitles, digital.
Germany, May 1968: As the country is caught up in the midst a new era of freedom that includes the Rolling Stones, bell-bottoms, mini-skirts, the sexual revolution, and protests against the Vietnam War, rebellious 14-year-old Wolfgang is at odds with his parents.
As a last resort, he is sent to Freistatt, a foster home for difficult children. There he is to be “educated” to become a decent boy.
Wolfgang puts up a determined resistance against the brutal working conditions and the perfidious education methods of the wardens; he doesn’t allow them to get him down.
But for how long can he manage to resist the system of violence and oppression without brutalizing himself?
Based on true accounts, Brummunds film is about a boy’s merciless to save his last bit of humanity and dignity in an oppressive system.
Discussion with Director Marc Brummund, and reception following the screening.
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SANCTUARY (Freistatt) Trailer from Pluto Film on Vimeo.
Partner
"Villa @ Goethe" is a cooperation of Goethe-Institut Los Angeles and Villa Aurora
Eclectic Salon
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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Celebrating the Diversity of L.A.’s Musical Landscape
Saturday, March 26 @ 8:00 p.m.
Eclectic Salon #3: Plucking
In cooperation with MicroFest
An Evening of Tom Johnson
MicroFest and Villa Aurora present the world premiere of Johnson’s Plucking (2015) for nine ethnic instruments, featuring a global village of world pluckery that includes Japanese koto, Middle Eastern oud, Indian sitar, Persian tar, African kora, and more. Also included will be a selection of his wonderful Rational Melodies, the West Coast premiere of Doublings for Double Bass (1980) for contrabass, his hilarious Failing: a very difficult piece for solo string bass (1984), plus traditional repertoire from our international soloists.