Two classic works of twenties surrealism, reinterpreted eighty years later by musicians of startlingly different aesthetics—rigorous minimalism on the one hand, free improvisation on the other… An entirely new production of film and music, created as a simultaneous collaboration… An abstract video made as a response to pre-existent music… The possibilities of combining the musical and the visual are endless.

The Ensemble Sospeso explores these possibilities with this program of four short films with live music at the [name of venue here].

The four works on this program are strikingly diverse, yet intimately linked. Hervé Bailly-Basin’s 2001 videofilm to accompany Tristan Murail’s lush soundscape Bois Flotté harkens back to the defiant abstraction of an earlier French masterwork, Léger’s Ballet mécanique—shown here in a newly restored, definitive, and colorized print. Sospeso’s newly produced The Kiss—a meditation on the events of 9/11, set in 1978—is haunted by the shadow of Lorca, the poet in New York, the subject of Buñuel and Dalí’s Un Chien Andalou; both films are provocative essays on sexuality, politics, and desire.