LIST YOUR EVENT FOR FREE

ELECTRIC MUSES with live music by Aurora Engine and Bell Lungs

Cinetopia in collaborating with The Debutante brings a women-led evening of surrealist films and technologically-enhanced live music performed by Aurora Engine and Bell Lungs!

ELECTRIC MUSES with live music by Aurora Engine and Bell Lungs

About ELECTRIC MUSES with live music by Aurora Engine and Bell Lungs

A women-led evening of surrealist films and technologically-enhanced live music performed by Aurora Engine and Bell Lungs

Edinburgh-based Cinetopia is collaborating with The Debutante (a feminist-surrealist magazine), and musician-composers Aurora Engine (Deborah Shaw), and Bell Lungs (Ceylan Hay) to bring audiences ELECTRIC MUSES: a women-led evening of surrealist film and creative, technologically enhanced live music. This unique event will tour three venues through July, Newcastle, Glasgow and Edinburgh. On July 9th, Electric Muses programme will be at the Old Royal High School Great Debate Hall as part of Pianodrome's Summer Resonancy.

ELECTRIC MUSES celebrates women working in creative technology spanning across two centuries, bringing their overlooked input into the public eye.

Since the birth of cinema, women filmmakers have used this “electric” art form to tell their stories. With ELECTRIC MUSES we will merge cinema and live, technologically enhanced music to highlight the profound contributions women have made in creative technology art forms.

Cinetopia is showcasing four surrealist films made by pioneering female filmmakers over the 20th century alongside the compositions of two contemporary Scotland-based composers, both of whom use technology heavily as part of their process and performances, Aurora Engine and Bell Lungs.

The main feature will be ‘The Seashell and the Clergyman’ (1928) by Germaine Dulac, a female surrealist filmmaker and director active during the 1920’s. This will be accompanied by a live soundtrack composed and performed by Aurora Engine and Bell Lungs.

In addition, audiences will experience a newly commissioned score of Maya Deren’s experimental short, 'Meshes of the Afternoon' (1943) composed and performed by the same musical team. Two additional short films will be screened curated by The Debutante.

The curatorial team will introduce audiences to the programme, and to the contributions these female surrealist filmmakers made to the movement and to the history of filmmaking.

A Q&A will also follow between the curators and musicians about the work of the various filmmakers and the process of scoring music. A short intermission will occur in the middle of the programme.
Film titles as part of this screening of Electric Muses:

Short films – screened with original sounds

You Be Mother ( Sarah Pucill) - 1990 - 7 min

Psychosynthesis (Barbara Hammer) 1975 - 6 min

Short films – performed with Live Music

Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren; Alexander Hammid) 1943 - 14 minutes

The Seashell and the Clergyman (Germaine Dulac) 1928 - 41 minutes

About the musicians:

Aurora Engine is a composer, musician and sonic artist living and working in Leith. Within her practise she creates compositions and soundscapes blending the acoustic textures of real instruments (piano, harps, wind instruments and percussion) manipulating their sounds using creative software and effects pedals. She also writes and performs her own songs on harp or piano. www.auroraengine.com

Bell Lungs is a Scottish musician and composer her work forging richly textured live sets which draw on free improvisation, ambient, avant dream pop, drone, noise and folk traditions, the musical landscape of Scottish raconteur Bell Lungs is often cinematic in scope, featuring electric violin, guitar, omnichord and a range of wild and wonderful noise toys, all wrapped around mesmerically shifting vocals. www.bell.lungs.com

This screening of ELECTRIC MUSES is part of Film Feels Curious, a UK-wide cinema season, supported by the National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network. Explore all films and events at filmfeels.co.uk.

We strive to be as accessible as possible with wheelchair access and wheelchair accessible portable toilets on site at the Old Royal High School. If you have any added accessibility needs or questions, please get in touch at info@cinetopia.uk.

There is also a cash bar onsite at the Old Royal High by Bellfield Brewery.

How to find us:

You'll find the access to the entrance to the Pianodrome resonancy and the Great Debate Hall from the roundabout on Regents Road. Follow the pathway there to the back of the building and, and there will be an entrance to the event.

Sponsored Links

Similar events you might like...

Scottish Love in Action Cinema Night

Scottish Love in Action Cinema Night

21st March 2024

Join Scottish Love in Action with a friend for a screening of the classic ‘Ghost’ featuring Demi Moore at the Dominion Cinema on 21st March!

READ MORE
Opening Screening: Creatura + Q&A with Marta Cruañas

Opening Screening: Creatura + Q&A with Marta Cruañas

21st March 2024

Directors Fortnight, Elena Martín Gimeno takes us to the Costa Brava region to follow the sexual awakening journey of Mila, the protagonist of the film, through three different ages.

READ MORE
Screening: The Permanent Picture (2023)

Screening: The Permanent Picture (2023)

22nd March 2024

The fact a film like La Imatge Permanent exists in contemporary cinema is a miracle on its own, and certainly a reason to pay a ticket and go celebrate it going to the cinema!

READ MORE
Screening: Catalan Short Films & Castellers Performance

Screening: Catalan Short Films & Castellers Performance

23rd March 2024

Watch a magnificent selection of shorts made by talented filmmakers as part of the Catalan Film Festival at St Peters Scottish Episcopal Church Hall on 23rd March!

READ MORE
Screening: Out of Sync + Q&A with Juanjo Giménez + Timecode Short Film

Screening: Out of Sync + Q&A with Juanjo Giménez + Timecode Short Film

24th March 2024

Juanjo Giménez will present two of his best films in an extraordinary night at the Cameo Picturehouse in Edinburgh.

READ MORE
Film Premiere: A Little While Longer - Mental Health Awareness

Film Premiere: A Little While Longer - Mental Health Awareness

26th March 2024

A film Screening hosted by the Joshua Nolan Foundation! Come and join us at Grassmarket Community Project on 26th March for an empowering, powerful and life-affirming evening!

READ MORE
Dirty Dancing In Concert

Dirty Dancing In Concert

28th March 2024

The timeless love story of Baby and Johnny will be brought to life in concert-form next year, as Dirty Dancing in Concert tours the UK. Catch it at the Usher Hall on 28th March!

READ MORE
Cinetopia:DOC presents KIM’S VIDEO + Q&A

Cinetopia:DOC presents KIM’S VIDEO + Q&A

30th March 2024

The March Cinetopia: DOC Club serve is Kim's Video screening at Cameo Picturehouse on Saturday 30th!

READ MORE
Easter: Peter Rabbit Movie + Meet & Greet

Easter: Peter Rabbit Movie + Meet & Greet

31st March 2024

Join us at Brewhemia for the ultimate family day out and immerse yourself in a magical experience as we’ll be showcasing the much-loved Peter Rabbit movie across three big screens!

READ MORE

Sponsored Links

Find other events in Edinburgh

Sponsored Links

Popular Events

Hamilton
The multi award-winning cultural phenomenon 'Hamilton' is touring the UK for the very first time and is coming to the Festival Theatre for a 9 week season from 28th February 2024!
Easter: The Women’s Story
The Easter Play is a large-scale community Passion Play telling the Easter story on 30th March beneath the iconic backdrop of Edinburgh Castle!
Cracking New Jokes Show
Scotland's Best Comedians Live are proud to bring a new weekly showcase to the Dragonfly Cocktail Bar in Edinburgh.
MetalMania
The best rock and metal night Keep It Steel presents: MetalMania at La Belle on Saturday the 11th April.
A Play, A Pie and A Pint
A popular feature of the Traverse programme, A Play, A Pie and A Pint, Òran Mór returns for 2024.

Popular Listings

Corn Exchange Haddington Edinburgh Playhouse Festival Theatre Edinburgh Howden Park Centre Livingston Kings Theatre Edinburgh National Museum of Scotland O2 Academy Edinburgh The Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh Traverse Theatre Usher Hall