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Making Music for Film: DJ Spooky in Conversation with Carter Burwell, and Graham Reynolds

Our next free online masterclass features DJ Spooky in conversation with Carter Burwell and Graham Reynolds. These three extraordinary musicians (and friends) will talk about composing for film—touching on the similarities and differences for silent cinema.

Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky) is an artist and composer with an affinity for silent film. His live remix of D.W. Griffith’s THE BIRTH OF A NATION—Rebirth of a Nation—premiered in 2004 and Miller went on to score Dovzhenko’s EARTH and Robert Wiene’s THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, among others. He executive-produced the Pioneers of African-American Cinema box set, which features his scores for two Oscar Micheaux films. Miller performed at SFSFF 2017 with his score for Micheaux’s BODY AND SOUL and there are plans afoot to bring Miller to San Francisco to perform at SFSFF’s next in-person event.

Carter Burwell is known to anyone who’s seen a film by the Coen Brothers—his ineffable touch is on everything from BLOOD SIMPLE to THE BIG LEBOWSKI to THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS, not to mention his scores for films by Todd Haynes and Spike Jonze!

Graham Reynolds composed the elegant music for Richard Linklater’s A SCANNER DARKLY, BEFORE MIDNIGHT, and WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, among his many other film scores. Reynolds got his film-composing start by scoring silent films!

Apr 13, 2021 05:00 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)