Friday, April 6, 2018 at 7:30 PM - 10 PM
Stanford Live
327 Lasuen Street, Bing Concert Hall,
Stanford, California 94305
How do you pay tribute to San Francisco if you've never
been to California? As they set to task on this commission by the San Francisco
Film Society, Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin and his team—codirectors Evan
Johnson and Galen Johnson—realized that there would be no better cinematic
tribute than a recreation of the Hitchcock classic Vertigo.
More of an homage than a remake, The Green Fog—A San
Francisco Fantasia stitches together over 200 snippets of movies and TV filmed
in San Francisco—from '50s film noir to Mrs. Doubtfire—to create a
parallel-universe version of Hitchcock's thriller. The resulting collage has
little dialogue, letting the Jacob Garchik-penned score, performed live by the
Kronos Quartet, amplify and intensify the action.
The program will open with a composition by throat singer
Tanya Tagaq, whose 2015 piece Sivunittinni was written for the Kronos as part
of Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire, an initiative by the
Kronos Quartet to commission new works for string quartet and distribute them
online for free.
Cost: $40 - $65
