The competition consists of creating and cutting a new sound track for a silent movie of the silent film era. The purpose of this initiative is to promote the creation of new creative relationships between sound and film images, to give new resetters to music a chance to present their works and to rediscover and revalorize worldwide cinematografy until the the years of the 1930th.

Introduction

Showing those films today without a soundtrack means mutilating and disfiguring them. Therefore, we asked authors to chose a film from the silent era and add a "new sound-track". We write this in quotation marks because the participating authors have complete and total freedom. Each of them can decide whether to use music (of their own or another's creation), sounds or noises etc., and whether to put a didactic or a desecrating slant on the project. In this way the authors find themselves having to face the challenge of modifying films that already have their own independent artistic dignity and a whole series of meanings, materials and emotions that today's twenty-first century audience has come to recognise.

Artistic Director: Tiziano Popoli

Target group

Editors, silent film lovers and musicians.

Partecipation form
and Call for partecipation