![]() ![]() Dahl.įor further material and performances with this project follow the haxan tag. The project was funded by Det Norske Komponistfond, FFUK and FFLB, and premiered at Cinemateket USF November 2015, with live guitar by Thomas T. Hxan uses a series of vividly depicted vignettes of demonic possession, sexual perversion, and a satanic. The score for Häxan concludes the “Fantastic Women” trilogy of silent films: Häxan (2015), La Passion de Jeanne D’Arc (2013) and Aelita – Queen Of Mars (2012). Join the Mtter Museum for this screening of Hxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages, the 1922 Swedish horror-documentary masterpiece exploring witchcraft, demonology, Satanism, and the persecution of women in the Middle Ages. The score for Haxan combines all these sonic elements to support and enhance a narrative of suppression and societal fear of “the others”. Häxan / Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922/1968) (DVD) £6.00 GBP Since its premiere in 1922, Benjamin Christensens exploration of the role of superstition in medieval minds has caused outrage and protest from both the general public and religious groups. The mountain is still to this day filled with our contemporary tools of witchcraft and sorcery: Surveillance equipment. This mountain, now called Brocken, in central Germany was on the border of East and West Germany during the cold war, and became a listening post for the Soviet regime. ![]() The score also uses real sounds recorded at Blocksberg (the mountain of Walpurgis-Night). These sounds and atmospheres are turned into expressive digital instruments, performed live to the film. Broken into seven parts, the film looks at how witchcraft has been viewed over time, starting from the dawn of humanity’s belief in the fantastical, navigating from the pious 1600s to the then-present day 1920s. Burning leaves, dissecting frogs, popping eyes. Released in Sweden on September 18 th, 1922, the movie Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages is officially a century old. This 1922 silent film is a fascinating and. With live musical accompaniment by the Dublin Film Ensemble. The score is created with hundreds of recordings of intimate, microscopic sounds of performing sorcery. IFI HORRORTHON: HAXAN: WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES. ![]() The music and the sound design for Häxan uses both traditional contemporary film music, and specifically prepared sounds of both ancient and contemporary witchcraft and sorcery. Roles: Music, sound design, video and performance. The film intellegently – and highly visually – investigates how “being different” has always been a risk to queer and innocent people. Directed by Benjamin Christensen, it is loosely based on Malleus Maleficarum, a judicial document from 1486 on the prosecution of witches. Häxan – The Witch (1922) is an episodic docu-horror of witchcraft. It was the most expensive – and most censored – Scandinavian cinema production of it’s time. ![]()
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