This film concert is part of Silent Divas, a program of film screenings with live musical accompaniment celebrating the brightest stars of the Italian silent cinema’s golden age.
Silent Divas is presented by the Italian Cultural Institute Melbourne.
Along with the melodrama, romance, and tragedy that characterize the plot, Assunta Spina portrays the daily life of the lower-classes in Naples, with the city itself becoming its uncredited protagonist. The movie realistically portrays the beauty of the city’s most colourful areas, the chaotic frenzy of its neighbourhoods and markets, as well as the run-down state of the working-class suburbs. Assunta Spina was an extraordinary box office success, becoming one of the most successful Italian silent films of all time and further cementing Francesca Bertini as one of the most recognisable silent cinema stars in Italy and abroad.
Assunta Spina will be screened with a new score composed and played live by Maria Moles.
Maria Moles is an Australian drummer, composer and producer based in Narrm/Melbourne. Her solo percussion performances draw on ideas from the Kulintang music of the Philippines and contemporary electronic production to weave hypnotic webs from layers of unmetered pulse that slowly undergo subtle textural transformations.
Sunday 27th August
67 min
CTC
Retrospective
Astor Theatre
