San Francisco Silent Film Festival

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Häxan

Live music by the Matti Bye Ensemble
Director
Benjamin Christensen
Cast
Maren Pedersen, Tora Teje, Benjamin Christensen

Benjamin Christensen’s spectacle-laden masterwork transcends genre to trace the evolution of witchcraft from its pagan roots to the psychoanalyst’s couch. Ultimately a denunciation of witch-hunt hysteria, Häxan is a technical marvel, rife with lurid images of satanic orgies, sadomasochistic priests, and possessed nuns.

  • 106 min.
  • Sweden
  • 1922
  • DCP
Introduction
Thomas Christiansen
Special Support
Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation
Copresenter
Movies for Maniacs

Live music by the Matti Bye Ensemble

The Matti Bye Ensemble seeks that magical, emotional alchemy between music and images, playing a wide variety of instruments that include piano, glockenspiel, violin, musical saw and percussion. It is led by award-winning film composer Matti Bye, who has accompanied silent movies at the Swedish Film Institute’s since 1989. In addition to Bye, the ensemble members include Kristian Holmgren, Lotta Johansson, and Laura Naukkarinen.

Details

Director
Benjamin Christensen
Country
Sweden
Year
1922
Cast
Maren Pedersen, Tora Teje, Benjamin Christensen
Runtime
106 min.
Source
Swedish Film Institute
Format
DCP
Fri, Apr 12, 2024
8:15 PM
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
$25 general
$20 member
12 and under, free
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