Edmonton composer, sound designer and thereminist Dave Clarke and his electro-acoustic ensemble of musicians and singers create a trip-hop and dub electronica songscape to accompany the 1927 Hollywood silent melodrama Sunrise. This show was a highlight of last year's Edmonton International Film Festival, and we're bringing it back for a four-day run. Sunrise stars George O' Brien and Janet Gaynor, and was directed by F.W. Murnau, whose first film was the vampire chiller Nosferatu. Sunrise opened in 1927, just before the first talkie The Jazz Singer, and is considered the last great achievement of the silent film era. The plot is simple: a married man is persuaded to murder his wife by a seductress from the city. The movie is remarkable for its dreamlike, Expressionist images, composition and camera movement, and won three Oscars at the inaugural Academy Awards, including the Oscar for Unique and Artistic Picture. Dave Clarke is an Edmonton based AMPIA award winning composer and sound designer for theatre and film, and has performed live soundtracks for three silent movies: The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Nosferatu and Sergei Eisenstein's October. The Edmonton Journal called Songs For Caligari "memorable" and "sublime" and Vue Weekly described the concert as "an inspired siren song that leads you to the jagged rocks of madness with beautiful cries of terror and the lulling undertones of progressive electronica." Joining Dave live on stage for Sunrise are Martin Kloppers (cello), Don Ross (clarinet), Kieran Martin Murphy and Twilla MacLeod (vocals).