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Alloy Orchestra: Performance to Man with a Movie Camera at Wellesley College
Courtesy of Chris Rich | Posted on January 30, 2012
Where
Wellesley College
The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities
Wellesley, MA
Map
(781) 283-3623
When
Mon, April 2, 2012
8:00p.m.
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Musicians
About
“The best in the world at accompanying silent films.”
–Roger Ebert
Alloy Orchestra is a three-man musical ensemble that writes and performs live accompaniment to classic silent films. Known for their unique sound, combining found percussion and state-of-the-art electronics, Alloy has performed worldwide at prestigious film festivals, such as Telluride, and cultural centers, such as the Louvre and Lincoln Center.
At Wellesley, Alloy will present Man with a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov, a groundbreaking documentary from the Moscow Film Archive about Soviet life and a treatise on filmmaking, shot on 35-mm film....