LIVE MUSIC to accompany 'Golem'

Sunday, November 30, 2008 3:52 AM
By Gary Budzak
The Columbus Dispatch

The Carpe Diem String Quartet, which will play a score for the silent German film
The golem is the original Frankenstein -- a plodding, powerful creature created by man, yet lacking in humanity.

The Golem, a 1920 German silent movie, will be shown Saturday night at the Wexner Center for the Arts. The influential horror film was shown with a pre-recorded soundtrack at the Wexner in 2003, but Saturday's screening will be accompanied by live music.

"Seeing a silent film in your living room with canned music is really not the proper way to see this work," said Chris Stults, assistant film and video curator at the Wexner Center. "Seeing it in a cinema with live music, . . . becomes as much a performance as it does a screening."

An original suite for the film was written in 1997 by Israeli composer Betty Olivero.

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