Thursday, 10/9/25 Lori Goldston EXPERIMENTAL FILM + LIVE improvised music

Please join us (& bring your students!) for a unique program of EXPERIMENTAL FILM + LIVE improvised music.

Acclaimed cellist LORI GOLDSTON returns to Champlain with

“Sound, Light, Movement: Solo Cello + Handmade Film” Thursday, October 9, 5:30 pm, Champlain College’s CCM Auditorium (free, open to the public)

SPONSORED BY CREATIVE MEDIA BFA, FILMMAKING BFA & CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE ART GALLERY

The film program, curated by Caryn Cline (Interbay Cinema Society Executive Director), is international in scope and features 10 short experimental films originally made on 16mm  celluloid and originally presented as silent.

The soundtrack will be improvised live on stage by cellist Lori Goldston, creating a one-of-a-kind fusion of film media and live music. Goldston has previously performed the program in London, Bristol, Bologna, Rome, Milan, Brussels, and Bremen.

 trailer: Cinematic Symbiosis: Live Music and Silent Film

LORI GOLDSTON

Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher from  Seattle. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic, is full, textured, committed and original. A relentless inquirer, her work drifts freely across borders that separate genre, discipline, time and geography.


Current and former collaborators and/or bosses include Earth, Nirvana, Mirah, Jessika Kenney, Ilan Volkov, Eyvind Kang, Stuart Dempster, David Byrne, Terry Riley, Jherek Bischoff, Malcom Goldstein, Steve Von Till, Lonnie Holley, Cat Power, Ellen Fullman, Maya Dunietz, Mik Quantius, Embryo, O Paon, Tara Jane O’Neil, Natacha Atlas, Broken Water, Ed Pias, Christian Rizzo and Sophie Laly, Threnody Ensemble, Cynthia Hopkins, 33 Fainting Spells, Vanessa Renwick, Mark Mitchell, Lynn Shelton, and many more.

FILMS

  1. John Behrens “Stan’s Salon” USA 1997
  2. Kalpana Subramanian “Liquid is LIght” USA 2016
  3. Bill Basquin “Late December, East of the Sierras” USA  2015 
  4. Vicky Smith “Shedding” UK 2021 
  5. Derek Jenkins “Herbaria x Pelicula: Field Portfolio” Canada/USA 2021
  6. Rocío Mesa “Tobacco Barn Light Studies” Spain 2019
  7. Wenhua Shi “Monosabishi” USA 2023
  8. Lucie Leszez & Stefano Canapa “Bosco” France/Italy 2023
  9. Anna Kipervaser “And By the Night” USA 2017
  10. Leandro Varela “Puedo Ver Todos Menos Mis Ojos/I Can See Everything But My Eyes” Argentina 2019

https://thequietus.com/interviews/lori-goldston-interview-nirvana-earth

https://lorigoldston.bandcamp.com

https://www.lorigoldston.com