The Cabinet of Dr Caligari – silent film with live improvised music
Mon 27 Oct
|St Mary Magdelene's Church, Valletta
The festival opens on Monday, 27 October at the late c-16th Church of Santa María Maddalena in Valletta, with a haunting cinematic experience: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the silent German expressionist classic, will be brought to life through live improvisation by guitarist and composer Glen Monta
Time & Location
27 Oct 2025, 19:00 – 20:30
St Mary Magdelene's Church, Valletta, WG29+428, Merchants St, Valletta, Malta
About the event
Programme Note
a world which is not quite all that it seems...
Dare to immerse yourself in the terrifying tale of Dr Caligari and his homicidal somnambulist. A silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene from a screenplay by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920) is popularly known as silent cinema’s original horror film. Born out of the German Expressionist movement, it is a landmark in cinematic devices; and has been most influential on film noir – a seminal of the new gothic. It has been referred to as the first cult film and a precursor for Art film. The Cabinet of Dr Caligari is famous for its contorted cubist sets, unusual angles, spinning umbrellas masquerading as a fairground, and the contrast of shadow and light, that aim to express inner states of being, and the ‘twist ending’ which reveals that the main narrative is actually the…