Salome + Live Music

This special screening of 'Salome' celebrates three birthdays; the film's 100th, the Duke of York's 112th, and Brighton-born artist Aubrey Beardsley's 150th.

The striking set and costume designs are based on Beardsley's illustrations for the English edition of Oscar Wilde's play, published in 1894. Russian born avant-garde dancer Nazimova was famous for her performances of Ibsen and other works about sensitive, passionate and neurotic women. At the peak of her career her production company produced this stylized filming of Oscar Wilde's work, hailed as America's first art film. The story centers on King Herod and his unbridled passion for his adolescent stepdaughter Salome.

'Eliza Skelton's music examines the inner world of imagination and narrative memoir through the lens folklore, magic and urban mythology. Grounded in gothic folk rock, laced with electronica and soaring vocals, Eliza and her band will be performing new and adapted original music for this unique telling of Salome. She will be accompanied by Emma Papper, Paul Simmons, Jordan Skelton-Woollgar and Toby Visram.' Plus 'Stand Inside your Love' by Smashing Pumpkins, director WIZ, 2000, 4:32 Billed by the BFI as ‘one of the greatest ever British music video directors’, Andrew 'WIZ' Whiston conjures up a mesmerising Beardsley-inspired tribute to Salome for this song by Smashing Pumpkins.

Presented in partnership with The Luxbry as part of Aubrey Beardsley: A Brighton Birthday Celebration.'