A hundred years ago Camille Saint-Saëns – praised at his death by Gabriel Fauré as “the closest France has come to producing another Mozart” – composed the first score ever written to expressly accompany a film. The film in question was L’assassinat du Duc de Guise. The closing night of our festival celebrates the centenary of the “most perfect of all synesthetic experiences” by staging the challenging, extraordinary encounter between symphonic music by great classical composers and Avant-Garde cinema at its purest.

Timothy Brock