ACHT BRÜCKEN: NICA artists set silent films to music

12 / 14 / 15 May 2025

Four commissioned compositions for silent films were created between the Acht Brücken Festival, Stadtgarten Köln and NICA artist development under the motto Licht!:
Pianist Marlies Debacker interprets Ballet Mécanique in a quintet. Saxophonist Jonas Engel dresses abysses with Asta Nielsen in the leading role in new sounds.
Andy Warhol's motionless experimental film Empire is set to music by saxophonist Fabian Dudek, while percussionist Thomas Sauerborn sheds new light on everyday life in Kiev, Kharkiv and Odessa in 1929 with Man with a Movie Camera.