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Headlands Center for the Arts

April 5 - April 5, 2011

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944 Simmonds Road Sausalito, CA 94965
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In Conjunction with the San Francisco Silent Film Festival 6:30PM Dinner + Presentation: $25/$20 members 8PM Presentation Only: $10/$5 members Artist in Residence Matti Bye, with his musical partner Kristian Holmgren, will demonstrate his approach to composing music for silent film, including works-in-progress commissioned by Headlands and the SFSFF. These compositions will be performed as part of the Festival’s summer program, accompanying the U.S. premiere of the Swedish film, Gunnar Hedes Saga aka The Blizzard (1923), in addition to the North American premiere of the newly restored print of The Great White Silence (1924), an official record of Scott's legendary South Pole expedition. Participants Matti Bye (born 1966) is widely considered one of Sweden’s most important composers of film scores and an extraordinary performer with his own, incomparable style of improvisation on the piano. In 2008 he wrote the score for Academy Award nominee Jan Troell’s latest feature Everlasting Moments and Stig Björkman's Scenes From A Playhouse, a documentary about Ingmar Bergman. He has 2 experimental improvisation bands (Vinter and Maailma) and will soon be ready with his first filmwork, called The Birth of A Moving Image which is a tribute to early film in a new cinematic and musical approach. He lives and works partly in Stockholm and partly in Berlin. Bye will be joined in residence by his musical partner Kristian Holmgren, a member of the Matti Bye Ensemble, which has been performing regularly since the mid 90’s, supplying musical scores to silent films from Sweden and from the rest of the world. TICKETS: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/163147 Invite friends via Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157062077682319