Intolerance with Live Score from The Deadbeats

One of the quickest sessions to sell out at AFF05 was the re-score of Metropolis by The New Pollutants. This year we’re back with a new musical accompaniment to D.W. Griffith’s epic masterpiece Intolerance (1916) performed live by Adelaide band, The Deadbeats (ex-members of Bumblebeez 81, a winner of JJJ’s Unearthed competition). The work recently provoked an overwhelmingly enthusiastic response at the Media Resource Centre’s Silent Re-masters series. The intricately building rhythms improvised by the band provide a strong underpinning to the narrative experimentation of the film. Intolerance interweaves four stories: the fall of Babylon, the story of Christ, the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, and a contemporary story, with Griffith’s signature frantic last minute dash to the rescue providing superb material for musical bravura. The music accentuates the essentially abstract nature of Griffith’s spectacular enterprise.

Silent Re-masters is supported by APRA, the ASO, AFTRS, and Adelaide University Electronic Music Unit.

All tickets $25

For information and bookings please call the MRC on 8410 0979