Dengue Fever Performs Lost World Soundtrack
10/08/2009
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(PR) On Saturday November 14, 2009, Dengue Fever will debut the Houston premiere of their live score to the silent film The Lost World (1925) at Warehouse Live.
Presented by the Houston Cinema Arts Society, this score was originally commissioned by the San Francisco Film Society for the San Francisco International Film Festival in May 2009. That show at the Castro Theater was a sell-out event of 1,400 capacity, at the end of which Dengue Fever received a standing ovation. Dengue Fever will perform this score live for only the second time live when they perform in Houston next month. Tickets are $20 and doors are at 7pm.
The following evening, Dengue Fever will perform their usual high-energy exotic hybrid of Cambodian pop, American surf rock and Bollywood glitz in Chicago at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Ticket prices are $20 to the public and doors are at 7pm.
The Lost World plot revolves around a journal which points to the existence of dinosaurs in current times. An expedition is formed to find these lost creatures. Harry Hoyt's adaptation of The Lost World (1925), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam, stars Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beer and Lloyd Hughes. Willis O'Brien's pioneering stop motion special effects of prehistoric beasts encountered by a scientific expedition are a precursor to his remarkable animation achievements for 1933's King Kong. The Lost World was entered into the National Film Registry in 1998.
Furthermore, The Lost World is a classic exploration of man's fascination with his own prehistory. It contains amazing animated sequences and inventive costumes and sets depicting a land that time forgot. Today, audiences can also read the film as a campy silent documenting how we used to think of the age of dinosaurs. It is full of anachronistic cultural stereotypes regarding science, marriage and race. Like the territory depicted in the film, Dengue Fever's music comes from a time and place that no longer exists. The band and film both evoke the same kind of nostalgia for a place that may never have existed.
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