We are thrilled to announce that JG Thirlwell will be performing an exclusive score live to the Harry Smith film Heaven And Earth Magic at L’Etrange Festival in Paris on September 10, 2024. The newly-created score will be performed by Thirlwell using electronics, triggered samples and theremin and will be in surround sound. The event will occur at the Forum des images, in Forum des Halles, 2 Rue du cinéma, 75001 Paris. The evening will open with sets by French duo Larège, followed by the first concert in Paris by the Franco-Senegalese group Ndox électrique.
In addition, L’Etrange Festival will be presenting a JG Thirlwell Carte Blanche, which is a mini film-festival consisting of five films selected and presented by Thirlwell. This will run from September 9-11 2024.
Harry Smith was an American polymath, who was credited variously as an artist, experimental filmmaker, bohemian, mystic, record collector, hoarder, student of anthropology and a Neo-Gnostic bishop. The film that Thirlwell is scoring is a black and white mystical stop motion animation, sixty five minutes in length.
Tickets for the events will be made available in late August.