Faust (1926) Live & Immersive Centenary Score
Murnau’s Faust (1926) is reimagined in a new immersive live cinema performance marking 250 years since Goethe’s first draft of Faust and the centenary of its landmark expressionist adaptation.
After last year’s sell-out staging of Nosferatu at Abney Chapel, The Enchanted Cinema returns to the atmospheric chapel reached through Abney Park Cemetery at night, presenting a live score performed by:
Celeste Cantor-Stephens — trumpet
Caelia Lunniss — violin
Kieron Chissik — guitar, organ, electric viola, and choral FX
Murnau’s Faust (1926) is a landmark of German Expressionist cinema, using bold imagery and dramatic light and shadow to tell its story of a pact with the devil and a world in moral collapse. Here, the film is carried by a live score: trumpet cutting through the action with lines stretched through delay and space, violin tracing folk-inspired melodies through its emotional shifts, and electric viola shaped in real time into layered textures that expand the film’s atmosphere in addition to a host of ingenious foley sound FX.
Following acclaimed performances at LSO St Luke’s, Horniman Museum and Gardens, and Abney Cemetery, this is a rare chance to experience a landmark of early cinema brought vividly to life. Supported by the BFI, awarding National Lottery funding through the Audience Projects Fund.
Event Information:
Doors will open 30 minutes before the film starts.
Latecomers who are more than 5 minutes late will not be admitted as the gates will be locked.
Latecomers will be admitted to the gallery.
Access information:
The ground floor of the Chapel is fully accessible, with accessible facilities.
There is level access at our High Street entrance and ramp access at the Church Street entrance.
The gallery seats have a great view and acoustics, but please note that they can only be reached by a steep, narrow spiral staircase.
Please contact us in advance at info@abneypark.org to let us know your access needs and we will do our best to accommodate them.
