The Dark Jazz Project offers a fresh and unique film score for the classic 1920 silent horror film, The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari. Directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer, this film is considered a masterpiece of German Expressionist cinema.
The story revolves around an insane hypnotist named Werner Krauss, who manipulates a brainwashed somnambulist portrayed by Conrad Veidt, to carry out heinous murders. The film showcases a dark and twisted visual style, highlighted by sharp-pointed forms, oblique and curving lines, unconventional angles of structures and landscapes, and sets with strategically painted shadows and streaks of light. …...more
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