The Student of Prague
[silent film, Stellan Rye (1913)]
live-music: trans by IzP (2006)
duration: 70'
(first performed: dec 6th 2006, Essen / Germany)
Through a cunning trick, the devilish Scapinelli steals the mirror
reflection of the student Balduin. Couched in the stylistic
tradition of Faust tales, Stellan Rye develops an extended graveyard
sequence and ghostly apparitions of Balduin’s disembodied mirror
reflection into an early 20th-century filmic vision of horror.
[translated by Eric Flesher]