Synopsis

Free admission!

A cornerstone of the horror film, F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror is resurrected in an HD edition mastered from the acclaimed 35mm restoration by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung. Backed by an orchestral performance of Hans Erdmann’s 1922 score, this edition offers unprecedented visual clarity and historical faithfulness to the original release version.

An unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Nosferatu remains to many viewers the most unsettling vampire film ever made, and its bald, spidery vampire, personified by the diabolical Max Schreck, continues to spawn imitations in the realm of contemporary cinema.

Nosferatu: Absent Presences and Digital Cultures
Symposium & Concert

Organizers: Paulo C. Chagas | Nikolay Maslov | Christophe Katrib

Saturday, June 8th, 2024
UCR ARTS

Silence is a canvas
Featured amongst the works in this program are the results of a collaboration between the students of Professors Paulo C. Chagas (Music Department) and Christophe Katrib (Theatre, Film, and Digital Production Department).

“I selected and cut out four scenes from Murnau’s Nosferatu and invited my Intro to Film Editing students to pick a scene and draft proposals for the sound design and thoughts on musical expectations. After a conversation with Paulo and his Audiovisual Composition class, we paired each one of his three PhD students with two of my students. The Brazilian musician Pedro Diniz was also paired with two of my students so that we could offer this experience to more participants. The pairs worked together on bringing these silent scenes to life through sounds and music, and we are thrilled to share the outcome with you this evening.” – Christophe Katrib.

Additionally, we invited five artists from Brazil to create new music videos based and/or inspired by Murnau’s Nosferatu.

Program

3 pm – Symposium
Students and guest artists briefly present their works.

4:15 pm – Concert

Part 1 – Atrium
Concert with film screening and live-piano

Marcia Cattaruzzi – piano

NOSFERATU – Scene 04 – The Stowaway
Lucia Serinan Mejuto & Barbara Macz

NOSFERATU – Scene 01 – Come to Me in My Dreams (2020)
Emma Hill & Lorna Katz

NOSFERATU – Scene 04
Elizabeth Waddleton & Hyunjoo Lee

a thousand machines (2017)
Johannes Birringer & Paulo C. Chagas

Part 2 – Screening Room
Screening of new videos by UCR students and guest artists

NOSFERATU – Scene 03
Lesly Naranjo & Hyunjoo Lee

Synthesizing Nosf (2024) – 4:35”
Danilo Rossetti

NOSFERATU – Scene 01
Diana Wan & Pedro Diniz

Nos_fer[r]atu: “Why did you kill them… such beautiful flowers…?!” – 5:00”
Vitor Kisil

NOSFERATU – Scene 03
Aria Nanna & Lorna Katz

SHE (2024) – 3:19”
Cássia Carrascoza

NOSFERATU – Scene 02
Christian Ledesma & Barbara Macz

Cryptic (2024) – 3:18”
Guilherme Bertissolo and Lia Sfoggia

NOSFERATU – Scene 03
Dominic Baez & Pedro Diniz

The Eternal Night (2024) – 6:49”
Beto Machado

FULL PROGRAM (PDF)

Support for this event has been provided by UC Riverside’s Center for Ideas & Society.

Trailer

Film Details

Director: F.W. Murnau
Studio: Kino Lorber
Country: Germany
Release Year: 1922
Rated: Unrated
Running Time: 92 minutes

Reviews

“It’s not just a great horror movie. It’s a poem of horror, a symphony of dread, a film so rapt, mysterious and weirdly lovely it haunts the mind long after it’s over.” – Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune