The second session of the Modern Times Festival will be screened next Saturday, October 28, in Arrecife with the screening of the film The Cameraman by Buster Keaton and Edward Sedgwick. In addition, this event, promoted by the Nino Díaz Foundation, will feature the soundtrack performed live by pianist Antonio Brito.
With free admission, the session will take place at the Agustín de la Hoz House of Culture and will include the prior broadcast, starting at 8:00 p.m., of Roberto Rodríguez's short film Pueblo en Flor. Puntagorda, belonging to the archive of the Canary Film Library.
This original proposal, promoted by the Nino Díaz Foundation, which combines silent film with live music, is part of the poster of cultural activities for October programmed by the Arrecife City Council, chaired by Mayor Yonathan de León Machín, through the Department of Culture directed by Abigail González.
Started last September with the screening of the film Sunrise, by director F.W. Murnau, with a soundtrack by pianist Manuel Bonino and the introductory documentary 'Eruption of Teneguía' by Roberto Rodríguez, the 'II Modern Times Festival' will be completed with two more sessions.
The first will take place on November 10 with the screening of 'The Kid' by Charles Chaplin, live music by pianist Esther Ropón and prior broadcast of the Canary Film Library documentary 'In Spite of Everything' (1926).
The second, on December 8, with the screening of The Passion of Joan of Arc, by Carl Theodor Dreyer and with Natalia Nikolaeva on piano, prior to the broadcast of Roberto Rodríguez's documentary El Juego del Palo, also from the Canary Film Library archive.