Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia St
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Mary Poppins
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Saturday July 12, 2008 (8pm)
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$10
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Early movie audiences in Japan expected silent films to be accompanied by both music and live narration performed by a katsudo benshi. The benshi were talented orators who interpreted — and frequently added poetic flourish — to the action on screen, rooting the cinematic experience in the traditional theatrical practices of kabuki and noh. Live film narration continues to exert a weird pull (and not just to anachronistic directors like Guy Maddin), as in kino21's neo-benshi cabarets. Tonight, seven writers and performers distort, exalt, subvert, and otherwise hijack a chosen film scene; Mary Poppins will never be the same again.
