The Fall Of The House Of Usher

Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic short story about the cursed House of Usher, this film screening is accompanied by a live chamber orchestra performing a new score by Charlie Barber.

The Fall of the House of Usher (France, 1928) is probably French filmmaker Jean Epstein's best-known work and is considered a pioneering, horror masterpiece, with its overlapping visual textures, experimental camera movement and otherworldly, ethereal imagery.

Charlie Barber's new score has been composed specially for a chamber orchestra of sixteen musicians and returns to Debussy's uncompleted opera La Chute de la Maison Usher to bring further depth to the atmosphere of this cinematic tour de force.