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Live musical accompaniment by Coupler
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When the innovative, immersive techno band Coupler performed their original score for the silent film Dragnet Girl in the Meyer Auditorium in 2019, they proved so popular that we had to invite them back. This time they will perform a new score commissioned by the museum for the cult classic A Page of Madness. Ostensibly the story of a man who takes a job as a janitor in a mental hospital to look after his wife who has been committed there, Teinosuke Kinugasa’s film uses all manner of radical techniques to render the world of the mentally ill in clashing, hallucinatory images. Shockingly advanced for its time, it remains a mind-blowing experience on the big screen.
Be sure to come early to have a drink and catch a DJ set by Coupler on the Freer plaza from 4:30 to 6:30.
(Dir.: Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japan, 1926, 59 min., 35mm, silent)
