Silent Film, Loud Music: Different From the Others (Anders als die Andern)
@ Comfort Station Logan Square
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Wednesday, August 2nd, at 8PM
This August, join us on the lawn outside of Comfort Station for classic German silent films paired with live musical accompaniment by Chicago musicians! Comfort Film presents this year’s installment of ‘Silent Film, Loud Music’ in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Chicago.
‘Different from the Others’ (Anders als die Andern)
Dir. by Richard Oswald
Germany, 1919
50 min.
Silent film with English intertitles
Live Score by Peter Maunu
A landmark film almost lost to history, ‘Different from the Others’ (1919) is widely considered the first feature-length film aimed at a specifically gay audience made all the more significant for its humanistic depiction of gay men and its explicit plea for the end of their social and legal persecution. Soon-to-be screen legend Conrad Veidt plays Paul Koerner, a celebrated concert violinist who lives under constant fear of blackmail and imprisonment because of Germany’s antigay law, Article 175. When his relationship with a new protégé raises suspicions, all of Koerner’s fears become real. Though the film still only exists as a fragment, ‘Different from the Others’ remains a compelling artifact from a fleeting progressive moment in German and cinema history.
A transplant from the Los Angeles music and recording scene, guitarist/violinist Peter Maunu has toured, performed and recorded with a long list of diverse musicians including Charles Lloyd, Jean-Luc Ponty, Bobby McFerrin, Tony Williams, Billy Cobham, Charlie Haden, Archie Shepp, and Grace Slick. As the guitarist on the Arsenio Hall Show, he performed nightly with legends like Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Ringo Starr, Madonna, Ray Charles, NWA, Public Enemy, and many more. Additionally, Peter contributed to the soundtracks of film scores including Crash, Bobby, Food Inc., and TV shows Chicago Hope, Arrested Development and CSI New York. Since relocating to Chicago, he has performed and recorded with improvisers Fred Lonberg-Holm, Dave Rempis, Michael Zerang, Mars Williams, Jim Baker, Tomeka Reid, Katherine Young, Jason Roebke, Tim Daisy, Avreeyal Ra, dancer Ayako Kato and many others. In addition, he founded, curates and performs at the Splice Series, a bimonthly improvisation series at the Beat Kitchen in Chicago.
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