Circuit des Yeux

A screening of F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent horror film Nosferatu at Bristol Strange Brew, with a live original score by Circuit des Yeux and Alan Sparhawk. The show is seated.

Nosferatu (1922) is F.W. Murnau's silent expressionist horror film, an unauthorised adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula in which Max Schreck plays Count Orlok, a vampire who draws his victims to a shadowy Transylvanian castle. Here the film is shown with a live original score by Circuit des Yeux, joined by Alan Sparhawk.

Circuit des Yeux is a Chicago-based American vocalist, composer and singer-songwriter with a four-octave vocal range, who plays the 12-string guitar. The act's first album, Symphone, came out in 2008, and its recent records have appeared on year-end lists including those of The Wire and NPR. The latest, Halo on the Inside, was released on Matador Records. Alan Sparhawk is an American alternative rock musician born in Seattle in 1969, active since 1993, who released the album Solo Guitar in 2006. Sparhawk is also associated with the Duluth indie band Low.

Bristol Strange Brew is a concert and performance venue. The programme suits those interested in silent horror cinema and in live scores accompanying film, with the music played alongside the picture.