CINEMATIC PROJECTS

Sergey Letov playing music for Faust by F.W.Murnau. Photo by Lana Ishmuhametova
Sergey Letov playing music for silent film 'Faust' by F.W.Murnau. Photo by Lana Ishmuhametova

The project 'Silent Movie - Live Music' has got grant of President of Russian Federation in 2010

Silent films with live music by Sergey Letov were presented at Moscow, Petersburg, Berlin, Hamburg, Weimar, Bendorf, London, Paris, Lyon, Madrid, Brussels, Liege, Dordrecht (Holland), Poznan (Poland), Dniepropetrovsk, Odessa, Smolensk, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Perm, Krasnodar, Syktyvkar, Ukhta, Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog, Saratov, Volgograd, Samara, Krasnoyarsk, Tambov, Kazan, Surgut, Penza, Cheboksary, Ulyanovsk, Kursk, Aktobe (Kazakhstan), Istra, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Yoshkar-ola, Kolomna, Petrozavodsk, Donetsk, Vladivostok, ecofestival at Tarkhankut (Crimea), Voronezh, Sevastopol, Pereslavl Zalessky and were broadcast (recorded version) on the Federal TV channel "Culture" RTR

Fragments of the film "Defense of Sevastopol" with live music by S. Letov and V. Goloukhov were demonstrated at the festival of documental cinema "RT.dov: Time of Heroes" in Moscow on the 24th of February, 2024.

Sergey Letov plays soundtrack for silent film Berlin - Symphony of Metropolis. Moscow. 2016
Sergey Letov plays soundtrack for silent film 'Berlin - Symphony of Metropolis' at opening of German film festival BLICK'16. Moscow. 2016

La Defensa de Sevastopol a Madrid 2017
'La Defensa de Sevastopol' a Madrid 2017

La Defensa de Sebastopol a Madrid
La Defensa de Sebastopol a Madrid
Dziga Vertov. Once, Centro Ruso de Ciencia y Cultura
Dziga Vertov. 'Once', Centro Ruso de Ciencia y Cultura

Le Bonheur d'Alexandre Medvedkine avec accomagnement musical par Sergey Letov. Liege, Belgium
Happines with live music by Sergey Letov. Liege, Belgium

Sergey Letov and Valentin Zhovtun play music for Sovient silent film 'The Overcoat (1926)' at Sakhalin Silent film - Live music festival, 2018
Sergey Letov and Valentin Zhovtun play music for Sovient silent film 'The Overcoat' (1926, directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg) at Sakhalin Silent Film - Live Music festival, 2018

Sergey Letov and Alexei Borisov play music for Sovient silent film 'Aelita' (1924, directed by Yakov Proyazanov) at Cine Doré (Madrid), Sience fiction cinema festival, 2019
Sergey Letov and Alexei Borisov play music for Sovient silent film 'Aelita' (1924, directed by Yakov Proyazanov) at Cine Doré (Madrid), Sience fiction cinema festival, 2019

Sergey Letov and Alexei Borisov play music for Sovient silent film 'Aelita' (1924, directed by Yakov Proyazanov) at Cine Doré (Madrid), Sience fiction cinema festival, 2019
Sergey Letov and Alexei Borisov play music for Sovient silent film 'Aelita' (1924, directed by Yakov Proyazanov) at Cine Doré (Madrid), Sience fiction cinema festival, 2019
Dziga Vertov - Lyon

September 14, 2024 7 p.m. Pereslavl Zalessky. Silent Film - Live Music. "Limite" (Brasil, 1930/1931, 120'). Live music by Natalia Skvortsova (piano) + Sergey Letov (saxophone, Roland Aerophone)

Interview:

"FÜR MICH IST DAS BILD AUF DER LEINWAND EIN WEITERER PARTNER BEI DER IMPROVISATION" (in German)

Cycle de concerts/projections sur la Révolution soviétique - INVESTIG'ACTION, 07 Nov 2017 (in French)

Christoph Seelinger schildert seine Eindrücke vom Stummfilmfestival DAS KINO DER 20ER JAHRE ZWISCHEN KLASSIK UND AVANTGARDE in '35mm-Retrofilmmagazin' 2019/02 (PDF)

Sergey Letov and Vladimir Goloukhov, Odessa, festival 2013
Sergey Letov and Vladimir Goloukhov, Odessa, festival 2013

Next Performances:

October 18, 2024 7 p.m. Saint-Petersburg. "Gde babulya?' Art Space. Silent film live music. Raskolnikow (1923, Robert Wiene). Live music by Nikolai Bichan (guitar, keyboards) and Sergey Letov (saxophone, Roland Aerophone Pro)