Starring Scott Paulson

Experimental Films (with a Musical Twist)
live music at the loft video gallery

Throughout April (April 1–April 30), ArtPower! Film welcomes Scott Paulson to The Loft Video Gallery (LVG).

Each month, ArtPower! invites a guest curator to choose their own theme and the films or videos that support their interests. Almost anything goes!

Scott's intriguing theme for April is “Experimental Films (with a Musical Twist).” Scott is an award winning local musician, UCSD alumnus, and outreach coordinator of the UCSD Arts Library.

In case you missed Scott's live performance on April 2, he and his Tiny Tiny Pit Orchestra for Silent Films will play a live set again–right in front of the LVG on April 28 at 12 PM–to bring his LVG curatorial debut to a close (until the next time!).

Films
Symphonie Diagonale (l924), 7.5 minutes
Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), 67 minutes
La Souriante Madame Beudet (1922), 35 minutes
Menilmontant (1926), 37 minutes
Revenge of the Kinematograph Cameraman (1912), 13 minutes
Kiss (1963), 50 minutes

His own performance ensemble, The Teeny-Tiny Pit Orchestra, provides live music for silent film screenings, ballet productions, radio dramas, operas, theatrical productions and experimental avant-vaudeville shows. P

aulson plays oboe in the San Diego Chamber Orchestra and also is the University Carillonneur at UCSD, performing live on Geisel Library's rooftop chimes (yes, he takes song requests!) Scott also serves as the Outreach Coordinator for the UCSD Arts Library for which he founded and directs various festivals: The Short Attention Span Chamber Music Series, the annual Toy Piano Festival, The Not-So-Silent Film Festival, and a Paper Theatre Festival.

Performers
Scott Paulson
Ryoko Amadee Goguen
Christian Hertzog
Matt Swagler

About Scott Paulson and his silent film band:
"An out-of-the-ordinary cinematic experience"–LA Times
"Weird and wonderful"–San Diego CityBeat
"Unique and popular...Scott Paulson's merry band of eccentric nightingales is an inspired notion."–SD Union Tribune
"This madcap ensemble is reinventing an art form."–LA Times
"Classically trained and charmingly twisted"–SD CityBeat
"Madcap and somewhat in the Spike Jones/Dadaist tradition."–SD Union Tribune
"Paulson's brand of G-rated fun, a sort of modern day morphing of Captain Kangaroo and Spike Jones, is always lively and at times wonderfully chaotic"–LA Times