Saturday, April 16th at 7:15pm | CLICK HERE to Purchase Tickets
ACM’s popular Sound of Silent Film Festival, now in its 17th year, is a unique event featuring new short silent films in every conceivable genre screened with newly-composed musical scores performed live.
SHORTS FEATURED IN THIS PROGRAM
Rattenfalle by Win BrooksA dark comedy exploring the horrors of modern cuisine and the palatability of revenge. - Music by Regina Harris BaiocchiElsewhere by Leah BleichA young boy suspends time before his parents can begin to fight. - Music by Tatev Amiryan The Reel by JohnBen Lacy & Mike ElsherifThe Reel is a lyrical ode to the magic and power of film, painting the projectionist as a conduit for the cinematic experience. A hybrid craft documentary and reflexive essay, the film offers a pastiche of iconic film imagery guided by montage theory that presents Hollywood archetypes as pawns of an ephemeral existence. - Music by Zygmund de Somogyi The Fuzzies by Josh FunkA man wakes up locked in a strange bathroom where something is lurking behind the walls. - Music by Isak Björn Hedlund Kilter by Rob Stanton-CookKilter explores the wreckage left in the wake of generational toxic masculinity. Following a violent crime of passion, a gentle young man descends into a tormented reality as he struggles to reconcile who he is and what he has become. - Music by Angel Bat Dawid Gut Feelings by Vanessa S. Valliere & John GregorioGut Feelings is the story of two misfits who meet in the belly of a beast. - Music by ACM's Film Scoring Class The Trader by Manuel Álvarez Diestro & Sergio BelinchónA busy executive has a very unlikely commute which will take him to an unexpected place - Music by Amy Wurtz Cold Storage by Thomas FreundlichCold Storage is a short dance film that pays homage to the virtuosic physical performances and melancholy comedy of the classic silent screen. On a desolate arctic shore, a lonely fisherman discovers his prehistoric counterpart frozen in the ice, and thaws him out as his newfound soul brother. - Music by Ishani MukherjeeStinger by Brian ZahmA filmmaker documents his own subtropical parasitic disease. - Music by William Jason Raynovich Vacationland by Alexander BickfordThe dizzying dreams of summertime. - Music by Kelsee Vandervall