Date: 25 September 2005
Location: Watershed, Cinema 1
Time: 18:00

We are delighted to welcome Captain Beefheart guitarist, New York composer and recording artist Gary Lucas to Watershed for this special closing event in our Flicker season. Performing his original score for "The Golem" the score - a seamless sonic web of themes and improvisations composed for electric and acoustic guitars and synthesizers, was hailed recently by Village Voice as “hauntingly brilliant and meticulously timed”.

The film tells the story of an actual historical Rabbi, Jehudah Loew, who legend has it fashioned a man from clay in 16th century Prague to save the Jewish community from annihilation. Filmed many times since and adapted to many other mediums, this 1920 version is still considered the definitive one. The film went on to profoundly influence such films as James Whale's "Frankenstein" (1931). A unique chance to experience Wegener’s silent German expressionist masterpiece with Gary Lucas’s internationally acclaimed live performance.

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