In San Francisco this Thursday, see and hear a rare treat: a 1927 silent film by Gabriel García Moreno with live accompaniment by Sutekh.

This rare, remarkable silent adventure opens with a young man experiencing his first shot of morphine. To try to describe the rest of the breathless plot would be futile, but suffice to say that it involves hints of bestiality, homosexual orgies, a lecture on the horrors of drug addiction, documentary footage of strait-jacketed patients, and a pipe-smoking ten-year-old boy detective who helps save the day. A trail-blazing example of surrealism in the country that fostered Frida Kahlo and Luis Buñuel, the film disappeared from public view after a few screenings in Veracruz in 1927, until a restored version premiered in Mexico City in 2001. Silent, with Spanish and English intertitles and live musical accompaniment.

Thursday, August 07, 2008
Film Series
Angel of Fire: Kahlo, Mexico, and Film
El Puño de hierro (The Iron Fist)
Gabriel García Moreno, 1927, 77 min.
8:00 p.m.
Phyllis Wattis Theater

posted by randy
2:01PM, 05 Aug 2008