September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
Directed by Larry Weinstein
1994Documentary92 minCanadaG
A dreamlike fusion of concert, cabaret and expressionist cinema reimagines the songs of Kurt Weill, newly restored.
Synopsis
A fusion of film, theatre, and concert performance that reimagines the music of the German composer Kurt Weill whose songs bridged opera, cabaret, and popular music with piercing social and emotional insight.
Through its visuals, its music and its original choreography, the film merges concert, cabaret, and expressionist cinema into a single dreamlike experience. The restoration — undertaken by Sphinx Productions with the generous support of Telefilm Canada — faithfully revives the film’s original textures, sound design, and the distinctive cinematography of celebrated German DOP Horst Zeidler, preserving a landmark of Canadian music cinema for new audiences worldwide.
The director
Larry Weinstein is a Toronto director and a co-founder of Rhombus Media, with more than 40 productions to his name. He is celebrated for unconventional, emotionally charged music documentaries, among them Ravel's Brain, Beethoven's Hair and Mozartballs.
On screens
- Oct 25Hazelhurst Film Club · Gymea, NSWTickets ↗
Already played at 10 cinemas in Knoxville, Tel Aviv, Sao Paolo, Cologne, Saugerties, Copenhague, Victoria, Vancouver, Toronto, Halifax, Gymea, NSW.
