‘Cine-concert: Lotte Reiniger & Pak Yan Lau’

For children aged 5 and above

Performance at 13:00 and 15:00

German director and animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger is best known for her 1928 masterpiece The Adventures of Prince Ahmed. She cut silhouettes herself and photographed them to make stop-motion films. This extremely slow and precise process continues to inspire awe after more than 100 years. Reiner's dreamy images find a musical pedant in Pak Yan Lau's free sound palette. This Brussels-based musician took some mysterious films such as Caliph Stork (1954) and The Magic Horse (1953) as a starting point and, while improvising with an arsenal of instruments and electronics, will perform a beautiful fairy-tale film concert for young and old.

Films screened in this program:

Caliph Storck, 1956, 10' 

Magic horse, The, 1954, 10'

Thumbelina, 1955, 10'