SOUND, LIGHT, MOVEMENT: SOLO CELLO + HANDMADE FILM

Friday, September 26, 7 PM
$25 General Admission
$15 Students with ID
70 minutes
Black Box Theater, Studio Complex (indoors)

Photo by Dammicco Bassa

Live music by Lori Goldston; silent films by Bill Basquin (US), Jon Behrens (US, 1964–2022), Derek Jenkins (US/Canada), Anna Kipervaser (US), Lucie Leszez (France) + Stefano Canapa (Italy), Rocío Mesa (Spain), Wenhua Shi (US), Vicky Smith (UK), Kalpana Subramanian (US), and Leandro Varela (Argentina).

An evening of moving image that opens with Stan’s Salon, a hand-painted film by Interbay Cinema Society (ICS) founder, Jon Behrens (1964–2022), created in 1997 after attending one of Stan Brakhage’s film salons. Remaining selections, curated by filmmaker and ICS executive director, Caryn Cline, specifically for Lori Goldston, are drawn from ICS’ Engauge Film Festival’s recent archives and evoke landscapes near and far, internal and surrounding. In early 2025, Goldston traveled through Europe with this special collaboration, performing in London, Bristol, Bologna, Rome, Milan, Brussels, and Bremen before coming to Tivoli to share with Kaatsbaan audiences.

Lori Goldston plays written, traditional, and spontaneous work on cello, and works as a composer, sound artist, and widely varied collaborator. Goldston was the touring cellist for Nirvana from 1993–1994 and appears on their live album MTV Unplugged in New York. Her voice as a cellist is singular, deeply textured and original, investigating thresholds, instability, and connections between far-flung modes of thought.

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