"We Have An Anchor" Opens at BAM
"It's not an improvised score, though I would hope it leaves the musicians room to move. I wanted them to make weather out of sound." — Jem Cohen
Another stunning example of live music accompanying film at the BAM Harvey Theater this weekend, featuring members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Fugazi, Silver Mount Zion, and others accompanying Jem Cohen's hypnotic mèlange of images from Cape Breton: the remote, desolate island north of Nova Scotia. Driving through snow at night has never felt so dangerous—or momentous.
A Wordless Music co-presentation; more info available on BAM's website.