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Minima’s
film soundtracks
  
Minima were formed in 2006 to play a soundtrack to The
Seashell and the Clergyman. Arguably the first example of Surrealist cinema and predating
Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalou,
Germaine Dulac’s dark, erotically-charged film is an hallucinatory
dream-logic story of tormented desire, guilt and conflict. With daring
imagery, startling effects and editing, feminist undertones and a sense of
the absurd, it was banned in 1928 by the BBFC with the following words “this film is so cryptic as to be almost meaningless. If there
is a meaning, it is doubtless objectionable.”
Screenings of Seashell
were accompanied by the seven-minute German Symphonie diagonale, often cited as the definitive early film
animation, made in 1924 by the German pioneer Viking Eggeling.
At the end of 2007 Minima were asked to accompany a screening
of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. A
travelling hypnotist arrives in town with a mysterious sleep-walker as his
fairground exhibit. Soon after, a series of murders takes place... In the
immediate aftermath of the First World War, audiences reacted with awe and
confusion to this truly unsettling film - Robert Wiene’s use of distorted sets, sinister shadows and unnerving
characters created a paranoid, unreal world at a time of despair and
soul-searching throughout Europe… The ultimate German Expressionist
classic…
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