Screening of the film that reimagines F.W. Murnau's silent 'Nosferatu' by syncing it with Radiohead's 'Kid A' and 'Amnesiac'.
Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror is showing at Picturehouse in Oxford on Thursday 29 October, part of a run that started on 1 October and continues through to Monday 14 December. It's a reimagining of the 1922 silent film Nosferatu, and the whole thing is built around pairing that classic silent cinema with epic rock music.
The images are synced to Radiohead's Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001), so the two albums provide the entire soundtrack. The original Nosferatu was an unauthorised adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, directed by the German filmmaker F. W. Murnau. Max Schreck played the nightmarish Graf Orlok, who's often described as one of the most genuinely disturbing incarnations of vampirism ever put on screen. The result is a 90-minute PG-rated experience that leans on the spidery, expressionist horror of the original to build something new.
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If you're familiar with the film, you'll recognise the stark, jagged shadows and the way Orlok creeps through the frame; if you know the records, you'll know the cold, electronic textures and disjointed rhythms of Kid A and Amnesiac. Seeing them together changes how you hear both. The silent film gives the music a narrative to cling to, and the music gives the silent images a voice. It's a long run, so if the 29th doesn't work, there are showtimes available from Tuesday 27 October right through to Monday 14 December.
