Aelita: Queen of Mars

(live film score)

"Aelita: Queen of Mars" (1924) (Live score) 90mins
2024: Celebrating the centennial of the first sci-fi film by Yakov Protazanov

Said to be the first full-length science fiction movie ever made, this influential film about space travel by the Soviet filmmaker Yakov Protazanov is re-imagined by avant guitarist Marc Ribot with a new score premiered at London’s Meltdown Festival, Royal Festival Hall and recorded live and released on the composer’s album Shoe String Sympnonettes for the Tzadik’s Film Series. 

In 2016, Marc re-worked his score for solo electric guitar which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in Medellin, Colombia. 

Press:

24 Heures (2023, Interview preview)

Performance History:

10/19/2024 Iowa City, IA ReFocus Festival: Hancher & FilmScene
10/20/2024 Chicago, IL Studebaker Theater
10/21/2024 Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts
06/29/2024 Solid Sound Festival - North Adams, MA
Dec 2, 2023: Châteu d’Oex, Switzerland - Cine Eden
Aug 4, 2022: Aosta, Italy
Feb 13, 2022: San Francisco, CA - SFJazz
Feb 6 2020: Toledo, OH - Toledo Museum of Art
Jan 26, 2019: Baltimore, MD - Creative Alliance
Nov 7, 2018: Ljubljana, Slovenia
May 11, 2016: Medellin, Colombia - Museum of Modern Art
Jun 24, 1995: London, UK Meltdown Festival curated by Elvis Costello