Screening of the 1924 silent film 'Aelita, Queen of Mars' with live piano accompaniment by Katie Condon, part of the 'Cinema Revived' series.
Walker Art Center is screening Aelita, Queen of Mars on Saturday, November 14, with live piano accompaniment by Katie Condon. The film is Yakov Protazanov's 1924 silent feature, a 35mm black-and-white print that the Walker keeps in its own Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection.
It's part of Cinema Revived: Timeless Selections from the Vault, an ongoing series that pulls full-length films from that collection. The lineup there runs from silent and international features to Hollywood productions and experimental work, so the titles change from one screening to the next. The series is meant to give a look at the Center's history of moving-image preservation and its program of classic and contemporary cinema.
If you're not familiar with the film, Aelita, Queen of Mars is a Soviet silent from 1924, directed by Yakov Protazanov. It's a black-and-white production, and the version the Walker is showing comes from their own archives—accession number RB1999.33. Having Katie Condon on piano means the movie won't be silent; she'll be playing along with the images in real time, so the score changes depending on who's at the keys.
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Beyond this series, the Walker's Mediatheque is a free screening room that holds more than 400 moving-image titles. The screening is on Saturday, November 14, at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
