Spanning a decade and a half of silent laughter, with features, shorts and thrills combined with hilarity, this is the pick of the greatest silent comedies ever made, accompanied by some of the world's best accompanists including Babylon's own Anna Vavilkina, Meg Morley from London, Daan van den Hurk from Amsterdam and Neil himself.
Silent comedy with live music has to be experienced, it is pure joy seeing comedy greats of a century ago make us laugh so much we forget our troubles.
This is the perfect place to discover the golden moments of silent clowning, and even experts will find much they haven't seen before, with many new restorations and undiscovered masterpieces in the festival.
A tonic in these troubled times.
SOLO MUSICIANS!!
Piano:
Neil Brand
Daan van den Hurk
Leonid Nemirovsky
Ekkehard Wölk
Orgel und Piano:
Dominik Gerhard
Florian Reithner
Anna Vavilkina
Jonas Wilfert
Gitarre:
Alexey Wagner
Klarinette und andere Instrumenten:
Oscar Ferdinand Buschinger
Slapstick Live: Cops + Play Safe
an der Gitarre Alexey Wagner (Sa. 27.4.) am Klavier Meg Morley (So, 28.4.) an der Orgel Dominik Gerhard (2.5.)
Slapstick Live: Egged On [OV], USA 1926, R: Charles R. Bowers, Harold L. Muller, Ted Sears mit Charles R. Bowers, 24 Min,
From Soup to Nuts[OV], USA 1928, R: E. Livingston Kennedy mit Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dorothy Coburn, 18 Min
Easy Street [OV], USA 1917, R: Charlie Chaplin mit Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, 19 Min,
am Klavier Meg Morley
Slapstick Live: College + Never Weaken
Sa, 27.4. am Klavier Meg Morley
2. 5. 19:30 am Piano Neil Brand
5.5. 20:30 an der Orgel Stephen Horne
Slapstick Live: : Coney Island + Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde + Haunted House
The Cook [OV], USA 1918, R: Roscoe Arbuckle mit Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St John, 22 Min,
Speedy [OV], USA 1928, R: Ted Wilde, Clyde Bruckman mit Harold Lloyd, Ann Christie, Bert Woodruff, 85 Min
am Klavier Ekkehard Wölk (2.5.)
Slapstick Live: Kohlhiesels Töchter + Ich möchte kein Mann sein
28.04. an der Orgel Florian Reithner
2.5. am Klavier Daan van den Hurk
Slapstick Live: Should Men Walk Home? + You`re Darn Tootin` + Jewish Prudence + Feed 'em and Weep
Fr. 3.5. an der Orgel Dominik Gerhard; So. 5.5. am Klavier Anna Vavilkina
Slapstick Live: His Wooden Wedding + Now You Tell One + The Immigrant
am Klavier ANNA VAVILKINA Mi, 01.05. am Klavier Stephen Horne 3.5.
Die Austernprinzessin [The Oyster Princess]
DE, 1919, R: Ernst Lubitsch mit Victor Janson, Ossi Oswalda, Harry Liedtke, 61 Min
Slapstick Live: Steamboat Bill Jnr + The Cure
Am Piano Neil Brand (Fr. 26.4.) An ader Orgel Anna Vavilkina (1.5.) am Klavier Daan van den Hurk (3.5.)
Slapstick Live: One Week + Tillie`s Punctured Romance
am Klavier Ekkehard Wölk (Sa. 27.4.) am Piano Ekkehard Wölk (Fr, 3.5. 20:30)
Slapstick Live: Limousine Love [OV], USA 1928, R: Fred Guiol mit Charley Chase, Edna Marion, Viola Richard, 20 Miin
Among Those Present, [OmU], USA, R: Fred C. Newmeyer mit Harold Lloyd, 35 Min
Liberty [OV], USA 1929, R: Leo McCarey mit Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Tom Kennedy, 20 Min,
Slapstick Live: Lizzies of the Field + For Heaven`s sake
27.4. 17:30 am - Piano - Ekkehard Wölk;
30.4. 20:00 am - Klavier - Anna Vavilkina
3. 5. 22:30 - Piano - Neil Brand
Slapstick Live: Mighty Like a Moose + The Cameraman
Mi,01.05. am Klaviert Jonas Wilfert
Sa, 04.05. am Piano Neil Brand
So 05.05. 18:30 am Klavier Daan van den Hurk
Slapstick Live: The Knockout + Summer Saps + The Love Nest
am Klavier Anna Vavilkina
Slapstick Live: From Hand to Mouth + The Goat + Pass the Gravy
So. 28.4. am Klavier Florian Reithner Sa. 4.5.am Klavier Anna Vavilkina
Slapstick Live: Buster Keaton's The General + Laurel & Hardy's The Finishing Touch
Am 27.4. Live am Piano Neil Brand, Mi, 01.05 18:00 Stephen Horne am Piano, Sa, 04.05. 20:00 am Klavier Ekkehard Wölk
Possibly Keaton’s greatest film, a breakneck locomotive chase through Civil War battlefields which climaxes with the most expensive stunt in silent movie history.
Slapstick Live: Die Bergkatze [OmeU], D, 1921, R: Ernst Lubitsch mit Pola Negri, Victor Janson, Paul Heidemann, 79 Min,
an der Orgel Anna Vavilkina
Slapstick Live: Safety Last [OmU], USA 1923, R: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor mit Harold Lloyd, 73 Min,
30.4 am Piano Meg Morley,
04.5 am am Klavier Daan van den Hurk
Stummfilm um Mitternacht: Slapstick Live:
Kohlhiesels Töchter + One Week NULL UHR NULL EURO an der Orgel Anna Vavilkina, Eintritt frei – Admission free!
Slapstick Live: All Night Long + The Boat + The Battle of the Century
an der Orgel Florian Reithner [Di. 30.4.]
[05.05.] an der Gitarre Alexey Wagner