A Page of Madness (1926) – Silent Film with Live Metal Score
Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa Run Time: 71 min.
Starring: Ayako Iijima, Eiko Minami, Masao Inoue, Misao Seki, Yoshie Nakagawa
Experience Kinugasa’s lost 1926 silent horror masterpiece A Page of Madness like never before, reimagined with a blistering live metal and electronic score by The Silent Light.
“Acted by an avant-garde theater group, conceived and directed by one-time kabuki female impersonator Kinugasa, A PAGE OF MADNESS remains one of the most radical and challenging Japanese movies ever seen here. An old sailor works as a janitor in an asylum to stay close to his insane wife and to help her to escape, except that she doesn’t want to go… Kinugasa deploys a battery of expressionist distortions and otherwise stylised images to plunge his audience into ‘irrational’ experience, always withdrawing to a ‘saner’ perspective, and then undercutting that with another visual or dramatic shock.” – Time Out
The Silent Light is a live film scoring project that performs original heavy metal soundtracks to classic silent films. Founded by composer and director Michael Formanski, the group reimagines iconic works like Metropolis, Faust, and A Page of Madness through immersive live performances that blend black metal, doom, and dark ambient soundscapes. The result is a visceral, cinematic experience that brings new intensity and emotional weight to century-old visuals.