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Hitchcocks ‘The Lodger’ with live-music

Edition 2012
WSA Film & Music
The first ‘real’ Hitchcock, The Lodger (1926), is a silent film. In it, a serial killer terrorizes the nocturnal streets of London. On Friday October 19, the Film Fest Gent at KASK will screen the film with live music by Kevin Toma and Anne Bakker.

Musician and film critic Kevin Toma, together with violinist Anne Bakker, composed a new exciting and alienating score especially for this film. They go further than the ‘classical’ film concert: with samples, beats, soundscapes and strange sounds they emphasize the strong atmosphere of doom that speaks from The Lodger, which was not for nothing given the subtitle ‘A story of the London fog’...