Nosferatu/The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (with Live Music)

Two silent horror classics with brand-new live music!

Both films are presented as a double-bill with brand-new live music composed and performed by Chris Green on a variety of acoustic and electronic instruments.

Notable as the first cinematic interpretation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Nosferatu's (1922) combination of expressionistic acting and unforgettable images render it just as powerful and unsettling today as when it first thrilled cinema goers over 100 years ago.

Made in the aftermath of the First World War, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) is the quintessential German Expressionist film masterpiece. Robert Wiene’s distorted sets, sinister shadows and unnerving characters creating a paranoid, unreal world at a time of despair throughout Europe.

Chris Green began playing guitar at the age of eight and piano from the age of nine, and plays most things with fretted strings or keys. Largely self-taught, he’s worked in a variety of musical genres including folk, theatre and early music. He’s a regular musician at Shakespeare’s Globe and was also one of the musicians on BBC’s Poldark, appearing in series 1 and 2. In addition to scoring silent films, he's also one half of modern-day balladeers GreenMatthews and has released two highly regarded solo albums (Switched on Playford I & II), which fuse 17th-century dance music with modern styles.