Music

Spark of Being

A movie/music collaboration from Bill Morrison and Dave Douglas

by Josh Kurp   |   Oct 23, 2010

Spark of Being

Dave Douglas and Keystone (Photo: Simon C.F. Yu)

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With CMJ ending today, it’s time to remember that there’s non-indie rock music happening all over this fair city, specifically some great jazz. Shocking, I know. Even more shocking: next Sunday is Halloween. Tomorrow evening, Oct. 24., at the Highline Ballroom, you get a best of both worlds event: a screening of Spark of Being, a collaboration between filmmaker Bill Morrison and the Grammy-nominated sextet of Dave Douglas & Keystone paired with a live performance of the score from the band.

But what does that have to do with Halloween? Spark is a reinterpretation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which also serves as the inspiration for Douglas’ three new albums, Spark of Being, Spark of Being: Expand and Spark of Being: Burst. The film premiered earlier this year at Stanford University’s Lively Arts and features “new, archival and distressed footage on film by filmmaker Morrison with an original score by Douglas,” according to a press release.

Tickets cost $25 and can be purchased here.

For more information on the movie and music, click here.