Cine-concert A Page of Madness

The list of TIFF.23 cine-concerts continues with a provocative Japanese horror - A Page of Madness (dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japan, 1926), performed live by Irina-Margareta Nistor and the CelloFun band. A Page of Madness is an experimental silent thriller. Considered lost for 45 years, the film is the product of an avant-garde group of artists from Japan, known as Shinkankakuha (School of New Perceptions), who sought to surpass naturalistic representation in film, being influenced by German expressionism cinema. The event will take place on Tuesday, June 18, starting at 6:00 p.m., at Cinema Dacia - https://tiff.eventbook.ro/

The action of the film is set in a psychiatric institution in rural Japan. In the midst of a torrential rain, a caretaker walks the halls of an asylum populated by patients with mental illnesses... Using extravagant superimpositions, hallucinatory sequences, and fast and insistent visual structures, the film builds an intense and claustrophobic atmosphere. Neither pro nor anti-madness, not at all traditional, but not purely modern, A Page of Madness is lush and ambiguous, fully deserving its cult film status.

A Page of Madness is presented at Transilvania IFF with the support of the National Film Archive of Japan. 

The live musical accompaniment by the CelloFun band is done in an electro-acoustic manner, combining original themes with foley and improvisation, and features a reconstruction of the film's dialogues (in English, based on the original screenplay published in 1976), in the unmistakable reading of the Voice of Films, Irina-Margareta Nistor.

The CelloFun band consists of Attila J. Szabó (cello, electronic effects, composition), Koszika (voice, violin), Edith H. Toth (flute, straight flute), and Radu Rădescu (percussion, foley, additional texts).

Subscriptions for TIFF.23 are on sale online - https://tiff.eventbook.ro/

TIFF.23 concerts are supported by MOL Romania.