The Passion of Joan of Arc
with live metal score by The Silent Light
Hosted by film scholar Gary Mairs
Friday, September 5 at 7 pm
UNCSA ACE Main Theatre
Free and open to the public
Nearly 100 years after its debut, Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc remains endlessly strange, evocative and powerful. Few works of art are so intense, so visionary, so completely committed to making spiritual experience visible; even fewer are so severe in their stark minimalism. It still feels completely modern while evoking the Medieval past.
This is a pure product of the post World War I avant garde: Dreyer’s skewed compositions and radically disorienting articulation of space suggest Picasso and Pound, Eisenstein and Schoenberg. It reaches for the sublime while reveling in the physical: as we cower with Joan in her cell, facing her accusers, we can smell the sweat of the guards and feel her tears on our own cheeks.
Renée Falconetti doesn’t just play Joan: she gives herself completely to both the purity of her faith and her abject terror. She never again appeared before a camera – it’s impossible to imagine that she had anything left to give after this.
The Passion of Joan of Arc makes believers of us all. It is an experience so overwhelming that to see it once is to never forget its power and its immediacy.
Hosted by film scholar and filmmaker Gary Mairs, experience The Passion of Joan of Arc like never before, with an original live metal score performed by The Silent Light. Led by multi-instrumentalist and filmmaker Michael Formanski, The Silent Light reimagines silent cinema through haunting soundscapes and immersive performance. For this special event they are joined by a live choir, transforming Dreyer’s spiritual masterpiece into an unforgettable cinematic ritual. This captivating experience is presented by the UNCSA Filmmaking Symposium.
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