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CINEMATIC PROJECTS

• 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 (USSR, 1928).
• "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)
• Raskolnikow (Germany, Robert Wiene, 1923)

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, Vladivostok, ecofestival at Tarkhankut (Crimea), Voronezh, Sevastopol, Donetsk, 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.

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)

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)

Next Performances:

March 12, 2025 7 p.m. Moscow. State Museum of Literature. SIlent film - live music. "The House on Trubnaya" (USSR, 1928, 64'). Music by Vladimir Goloukhov (MIDI-vibraphone) + Sergey Letov (saxophone, Roland Aerophone Pro)