Music for Silent Film Performance

“American Surrealism”

Original music by Ed Ruchalski accompanying 3 short silent films that reflect different surrealist styles and ideas.

• The Fall of the House of Usher (James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber, 1928) based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe – 13 minutes
• The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra (Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapić, 1928) – 11 minutes
• One Week (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, 1920) – 19 minutes