The Sound of Silent Film Festival 2026 Live at Duende
$20.00
Join us at Duende for a magical night of modern silent films projected onto the silos with new music performed by a live ensemble.
For the first time in Buffalo, Seth Bousted of Chicago’s Access Contemporary Music presents The Sound of Silent Film Festival 2026, featuring newly composed scores performed LIVE to modern silent films. Join us at Silo City as we project the films onto the silos and perform the music live at Duende. The films are between 5 and 14 minutes long, and range from comedy to drama to animated and more. (See the description below for film synopses.)
Buffalo Music Club performers include:
- Nicole Murray (flute, piccolo)
- Michael Tumiel (clarinet, bass clarinet)
- Jess Anthony (violin)
- Ethan Blake (cello)
- Ivan Docenko (piano)
- Stephen Solook (drums, percussion)
Don’t miss this one-night-only event!
GENERAL ADMISSION
$25 | $20 Advance Tickets through September 1
Event begins at 8:00 p.m. | Doors at 7:00 p.m.
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Description
Here are the film synopses for the festival.
Cold Storage
Film by Thomas Freundlick | Music by Gene Pritsker
On a desolate arctic shore, a lonely fisherman discovers his prehistoric counterpart frozen in the ice, and thaws him out as his newfound soul brother.
Do Not Feed the Pigeons
Film by Brian Zahm
| Music by Gail Gallagher
An orgiastic mutant monster post-modern pop art pigeon-fueled horror apocalypse!!!
Leaves of Grass
Film by Tzuman Tseng
| Music by Kaitlyn Raitz
An elder botanist is engaging specimen collection during a winter night. His stream of consciousness gradually being distracted by the past.
Màiri
Film by Brenda Davis
| Music by Charles Coleman
Màiri lives on a remote Scottish island, somewhere outside linear historical time. When she rejects a marriage proposal, her idyllic reality is ruptured by violence and she is forced to conjure her own escape.
A
Film by Katherine Allen | Music by David Keller
An unexpected attack during a lobster dinner leaves Audrey and Alistair’s relationship forever changed.
Cutouts
Film by Mila Korshunova
| Music by Seth Boustead
A woman awakens in a strange, enveloping space. She moves, hesitates, and tests its boundaries in a quiet, intimate transformation where the contours of the unknown direct her journey.
Tangled
Film by Simran Sawhney |
Music by Amy Wurtz
A woman brushes her hair to soothe herself to sleep until a dream interrupts the ritual and forces her to confront the weight she’s been carrying in silence.
Toe
Film by Chad Thurman and Neal O’Bryan
| Music by Matt A. Mason
A starving boy eats a toe he finds sticking out of the ground. Later that night, something ghastly comes to his bedroom wanting it back.
Sound Asleep
Film by Vadim Egoul
| Music by Amos Gillespie
A mime battles insomnia over an Icelandic summer night
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About the Artist
SETH BOUSTED is the founder and Executive Director of Chicago’s Access Contemporary Music, an organization that exists to present classical music as a living art form by performing new works in innovative ways for new audiences, providing community-based music education focused on creativity, and commissioning projects from composers around the world.