DJ Spooky—"Madame Freedom" Screening with Live Re-Score
Friday, October 26, 2012 at 7PM
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In 2007, Paul D. Miller was commissioned by Art Center Nabi in Seoul, Korea, and the Korean American Film Festival in New York to re-score the classic 1956 film Madame Freedom. As he explains, "In the 1950s, Korea went through a drastic modernization process. After the Korean War ended, South Korea was firmly embedded in a Western cultural sphere, families were put into radically unexpected contexts, and the rise of independent women changed the face of society. The film was viewed as a metaphor of the harmful westernization of all traditions in post war Korea...."
Miller's new score for a string quartet evokes the jazz of the nightclubs of the twenty-first century, and uses electronic music composed to create more dynamic tensions in the story, and to foreground the visual rhythm of the film's editing techniques.
This evening's screening will be accompanied by a live performance of the new score.