1912 E5 - Stephen Horne

Silent film accompanist and composer Stephen Horne has already composed for or accompanied a couple of his five multinational picks for 1912. But besides discussing the general aesthetic pleasures of his selections, he also ruminates on how he could approach playing for both these grounded features and short trick films (they were still hanging in there!).Stephen is a house musician at London’s BFI Southbank. He released Silent Sirens, an album of solo piano pieces based on his silent film compositions, and has scored Stella Dallas, The Manxman, and many more films.Films mentioned:The Gardener (1912) - Victor SjöströmHow a Mosquito Operates (1912) - Winsor McCayThe Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) - D.W. GriffithThe Cameraman’s Revenge (1912) - Wladyslaw StarewiczThe Conquest of the Pole (1912) - Georges MélièsThe Golem: How He Came into the World (1920) - Paul Wegener and Carl BoeseThe Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) - Carl Theodor DreyerL’Inferno (1911) - Francesco Bertolini, Giuseppe de Liguoro, and Adolfo PadovanOliver Twist (1912) - Thomas BentleyThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) - Robert WieneA Ruined Life (1912) - Victor SjöströmThe Abyss (1910) - Urban GadThe Phantom Carriage (1921) - Victor SjöströmThe Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) - Gordon HesslerThe Mascot (1933) - Wladyslaw StarewiczA Trip to the Moon (1902) - Georges MélièsIt's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) - Stanley KramerBarbie (2023) - Greta GerwigMetropolis (1927) - Fritz Lang