Baton Rouge Gallery’s Movies & Music on the Lawn Continues with ‘dayDREAMS & nightSCREAMS’ Series on Aug 28 w/ "The Hands of Orlac"

 

Baton Rouge Gallery’s, a BREC facility, Movies & Music on the Lawn, continues its 2010 season on Aug 28 . This year’s theme, dayDREAMS & nightScreams, focuses on our wildest dreams and our darkest nightmares. The gallery invites everyone to come out on the last Saturday of the month, May through October, to snack under the stars and enjoy an exciting silent-era film paired with live contemporary music supplied by some of our area’s most talented musicians.

On Aug. 28, come enjoy “The Hands of Orlac,” a 1924 Austrian silent film. “The Hands of Orlac” is a classically celebrated thriller that bends macabre ecstasy with the visual symbolism and performance techniques of German expressionism.

Based on the novel of the same name by Maurice Renard, the film charts the mental degeneration of a virtuoso pianist, played by, Conrad Veidt whose hands are transplanted after a gruesome railway crash and replaced with the hands of a recently executed murderer. When Orlac’s father is murdered by the dead man’s hands, Orlac begins a steady descent toward insanity. Produced in Vienna, the hotbed of Freudian psychoanalysis, “The Hands of Orlac” is writhing with innuendo and Freudian imagery.

As always with Movies & Music on the Lawn, local musicians provide a fresh take on the film with contemporary music performed live, both rehearsed and improvised, sure to enhance the experience. The (New) Zeelanders provide the score this fourth installment of Movies & Music on the Lawn’s 2010 season.

Admission to Movies & Music on the Lawn is $5 for non-gallery members, free for gallery members and includes free popcorn.  All Movies & Music on the Lawn events begin at 8 p.m. or sunset, whichever comes last.

Other dayDREAMS & nightScreamS events include: Sept. 25 (“The Adventures of Prince Achmed”) and Oct. 30 (“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”).

For more information about this program go to batonrougegallery.org or call 225.383.1470.

Baton Rouge Gallery, a BREC facility, is supported in part by funds from the Louisiana State Arts Council and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge (through the Decentralized Arts Funding Program) and a grant from the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge through the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Gallery also receives support from the Community Fund for the Arts, WRKF, its Community Members and the late Paula Manship.