let me come in

let me come in 2021

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Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Pawns of Passion (1928).

2021

The Anonymous Lover — LA Opera

The Anonymous Lover — LA Opera 2020

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LA Opera proudly presents The Anonymous Lover (L'Amant Anonyme), an unjustly neglected 1780 chamber opera by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a pioneering Black composer who was a contemporary of Mozart. The comic romance tells the story of Léontine, a beautiful young widow who has become disillusioned with love. Much to her surprise, she receives a steady stream of letters and gifts from an unknown man professing his undying passion. This amuses her friend Valcour, who also claims to have no interest in romance. But now, after hiding his true feelings for years, Valcour works up the courage to reveal that he himself is the devoted secret admirer. Will his (inevitably awkward) confession sway a woman sworn to resist all affairs of the heart?

2020

The West is a Land of Infinite Beginnings

The West is a Land of Infinite Beginnings 2021

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Alone in the woods, a young man is pursued by a horrifying specter and by visions of his deceased sisters. A meditation on the precarious uncertainty of the American Dream and the role that uncontrollable forces play in our lives, The West is a Land of Infinite Beginnings is inspired by a harrowing scene from the opera Proving Up, by composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek.

2021

The Five Moons of Lorca

The Five Moons of Lorca 2020

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A short opera about the assassination of poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca at the hands of Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

2020

Brown Sounds

Brown Sounds 2021

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This short begins with a pair thriving in a lush paradise representing the Garden of Eden. The pair are suddenly uprooted and driven to the unknown: the original sin of slavery. In the end, they dig their roots into the soil and stretch their limbs to the sun, finding new identities, new truths and new power.

2021

The Zolle Suite

The Zolle Suite 2021

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A dead woman wanders through the shadowy space between memory and reality, tracing the lines of her identity through the land she once walked—an immigrant in death as in life.

2021

Gallup (Na'nízhoozhí)

Gallup (Na'nízhoozhí) 2021

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Two mystical beings emerge from the scenery, embarking on a journey through Gallup— Na'nízhoozhí in the Navajo language— before melting back into the desert at nightfall.

2021

Death

Death 2021

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An operatic film adaptation of the poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar of the same name.

2021

Lumee's Dream

Lumee's Dream 2021

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Lumee, one of the two main characters (of the opera p r i s m), sings this aria while smoking outside a nightclub in the second act, providing a window into her selfish fantasies. Not a recorded section of the opera, but a companion piece meant to depict the character's imagined realities.

2021