The Alloy Orchestra returns to UNL’s Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center for a 7 p.m. Sept. 19 performance.
The orchestra will perform an original score to the newly-restored, 1929 documentary “Man with a Movie Camera.” Directed by Dziga Vertov, the performance is 67 minutes long.
The Alloy Orchestra is a three-man musical ensemble that writes and performs live accompaniment to classic silent films. The group works with an assemblage of peculiar objects to produce music from unlikely sources. The group has revived some of the great masterpieces of the silent film era.
For “Man with a Movie Camera,” the orchestra crafted a score based on notes sent by Vertov to the composer for the premiere of the film in 1929.
“Man with a Movie Camera” offers a day-in-the-life portrait of a city from dawn until dusk. Vertov, a Russian director, shot the experimental film in several cities, including Moscow, Kiev and Odessa. After an opening statement, the film offers no words, just dazzling imagery in a celebration of a modern city in the late 1920s.
For more information, go to https://theross.org/ or call 402-472-5353.
