LEMUR 1924 is a live film-and-music project centred on three landmark experimental silent films from 1924:

Entr’acte by René Clair
Diagonal Symphony by Viking Eggeling
Ballet mécanique by Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy

Inspired by Dadaism and early modernist approaches to cinema, the programme brings together radically different film languages. René Clair’s Entr’acte unfolds as a surreal collage of absurd situations and impossible realities, featuring key figures from the Paris avant-garde such as Francis Picabia, Erik Satie, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, woven together through virtuosic montage and layered visual techniques. This expressive universe is contrasted by Viking Eggeling’s Diagonal Symphony, a purely abstract work based on geometric animation, drawing on both Russian Futurism and Dutch abstract formalism in the De Stijl tradition. The programme concludes with Ballet mécanique, Léger and Murphy’s iconic rhythmic study, where repetition, movement, and superimposition form a mechanised portrait of everyday structures.

With LEMUR 1924, the ensemble turns to film as a compositional framework, treating each work’s visual language as a score for live electronic performance. The result is a bespoke sonic landscape, performed in close collaboration with technician and programmer Niklas Adam.