Following up on yesterday's BB post about a new youtube soundtrack for the 1902 silent film Voyage Dans La Lune, John Brownlee of the Wired blog Table of Malcontents points us to a recent Wired.com piece he did on silent film revivalism online. He explains:
The piece explores modern scoring of silent films and the future of silent films on the ubiquitous video displays of major cities (as well as all silent, black and white plays based on Louise Brooks films… oh, and Cthulhu): Link.
It hadn't even occurred to me to talk to some of the people rescoring films on the Internet for the piece, and now the heel of my palm is shuddering against my forehead for missing that angle, because it's one of the cooler aspects of silent film revivalism. It doesn't even stop at silent film: for example, there's this experimental rescoring to the trippy French animated classic Fantastic Planet.
I'm actually posting up an interview over the next couple days with the girl who did an all silent, black and white play (part one: Link) and I'll be following up over the next week or two with a bunch of other interviews with
artists involved with silent film revivalism.
Image: a still from the contemporary silent film Passio, by Paolo Cherchi Usai, which is mentioned in Brownlee's Wired story.
Previously on BoingBoing:
