Silent Film Trilogy Project
August 31st, 2008 | Published in Silent Film Project
New Project – Currently Seeking Touring Venues
“The Dragon Painter” is the prototype for a silent film project by Mark Izu, featuring live performance with an original score to films.
Based on the success of “The Dragon Painter,” Mark Izu is currently involved in a multi-year international collaboration to create contemporary scores, perform and tour with a trilogy of Asian silent films that are currently lost treasures with the intent to premiere, tour, record and finally distribute the new scores with the films via DVD in Asia and North America.
Goals of the Silent Film Trilogy Project are to:
- To Commission new music for a trilogy of lost treasure Japanese Silent Films
- To Record and premiere new music with films
- Release newly scored films via DVD in North America, Japan and Asia
- Release film scores via CD in North America and Japan
- Tour the films to venues in North America, Japan, Hong Kong & Singapore
Principal partners:
- Center for Asian American Media
- First Voice
Secondary partners:
- Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley
- Digital Meme, Tokyo (Asia Distribution)
- Milestones, New York (National Distribution)
