Carnival of Souls
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights (meaning arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating, the movie starts after midnite)!
For Carnival of Souls, LDP will be using modular synthesizers and analog keyboards to create a live score, inspired by the improvisational strangeness of Gene Moore’s original organ soundtrack. LDP hopes to transform Nitehawk into a liminal space where the living and dead dwell together—a cinema of souls.
Director: Herk Harvey Run Time: 78 min. Format: 35mm Rating: PG Release Year: 1962
Starring: Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger
Herk Harvey’s macabre masterpiece gained a cult following through late night television and has been bootlegged for years. Made by industrial filmmakers on a modest budget, Carnival of Souls was intended to have the “look of a Bergman” and “feel of a Cocteau,” and succeeds with its strikingly used locations and spooky organ score. Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss) survives a drag race in a rural Kansas town, then takes a job as a church organist in Salt Lake City. En route, she becomes haunted by a bizarre apparition that compels her to an abandoned lakeside pavilion.
Long Distance Poison is the Brooklyn based experimental electronics project of Nathan Cearley and Erica Bradbury. Through a developed process that uses generative systems, pseudo randomness, improvisation, layering, spectral modulation, drone and noise, LDP creates music that constructs an ephemeral relation to the mystery. They have performed at the Ende Tymes Festival, the Basilica Hudson 24-Hour Drone Festival, The Wassaic Project, the MOMA PS1 NY Art Book Fair, the Voice of the Valley Noise Festival, at Pioneer Works as part of a Clocktower Gallery residency and recently completed a video synthesis project called Rheomodes with a performance and installation at Printed Matter.
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