CINEMATIC PROJECTS
Sergey Letov playing music for silent film 'Faust' by F.W.Murnau. Photo by Lana Ishmuhametova
FILM 'THE FRUITS OF DESIRES AND CATCHING LIZARDS ON THE BACKGROUND OF MOUNT ARARAT' (1988, USSR)
Music for short movies by Alexei Burykin "Nikolay Erdmann - a shot of the self-destroyer"(2004), "I am Genius Nikolay Glazkov" (2008)
Faust – eine deutsche Volkssage (1926). Live stage music for the silent movie
Metropolis by Fritz Lang (1927). Live stage music for the silent movie
Skladanowsky Brothers - proto-movies (1997). Live stage music for the silent movie
Aelita by Yakov Potazanov (1924). Live stage music for the silent movie
DEFENCE OF SEVASTOPOL (1911). Live stage music for the silent movie |
La Défense de Sébastopol
DIE ABENTEUER DES PRINZEN ACHMED by Lotte Reiniger (1923-1926). Live stage music for the silent movie
ELEVENTH by Dziga Vertov (1928). Live stage music for the silent movie
The Cameraman's Revenge (1912), live music by Lydia Kavina, Alexei Borisov and Sergey Letov
Frau im Mond (1929). Live stage music for the silent movie
Orochi (1925). Live stage music for the silent movie
Der Schatz (1923, "Treasure') by G. W. Pabst. Live stage music for the silent movie
Himmelskibet, Excelsior / A Trip to Mars (Denmark 1918)
GOLEM - The Golem: How He Came into the World [Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam] by Paul Wegener and Carl Boese (Germany, 1920, 91')
La Antena (2007)
The Last Laugh (Der letzte Mann) by W.F. Murnau, 1924
Chronopolis
Himmelskibet
Un chien andalou
Entr'acte
Interplanetary Revolution (1924)
Kosmicheskiy reys (known in English as Cosmic Voyage and The Space Voyage , 1936)
Dziga Vertov. A Sixth Part of the World (1926)
Career of Spirka Shpandyr (1926)
Die Nibelungen (1924)
"Von morgens bis mitternachts"
Tabu (Murnau, 1931)
Salamander (Roshal, USSR/Germany, 1928)
'Man with a Movie Camera' by Dziga Vertov
' Stride, Soviet!' by Dziga Vertov
Namus (1925)
Nosferatu
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Robert Wiene (1920)
Nanook of the North (1922, USA - France, R. J. Flaherty)
Strike (1925, USSR, Sergei Eisenstein)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
The Glass Eye by Lilia Brik and Vitaly Zhemchuzhny (1929)
Happiness (1935, USSR, Medvedkin)
The General (1926, USA, Buster Keaton)
Kino-Glaz (Kino-Eye, 1924)
Buster Keaton. Steamboat Bill Jr. (USA)
"Oktyabryukhov i Dekabryukhov" (USSR, 1928)
October (USSR, 1927)
Films of the Bauhaus era
'Romance with Double-Bass' (1911, Russia)
'The Plague of Florence' ('Die Pest in Florenz', Germany, 1919 after Edgar Allan Poe)
The Haunted Castle (Schloß Vogelöd - F.W. Murnau, Germany, 1921)
The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929 - Germany, Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü )
Storm over Asia (1928 USSR).
"Sherlock Jr" (Buster Keaton, USA)
"Limite" (Brasil, 1931, 120"). Music by Sergey Letov (bass flute, saxophone, electronics), Arkady Marto (electronics), Nikolai Bichan (guitar)
Romance of a Fruit Peddler (China, 1922)
Dementia (USA, John Parker, 1955)
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' at opening of German film festival BLICK'16. Moscow. 2016
'La Defensa de Sevastopol' a Madrid 2017
La Defensa de Sebastopol a Madrid
Dziga Vertov. 'Once', Centro Ruso de Ciencia y Cultura Happines with live music by Sergey Letov. Liege, Belgium
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
Interview:
"FÜR MICH IST DAS BILD AUF DER LEINWAND EIN WEITERER PARTNER BEI DER IMPROVISATION" (in German)
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)