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THE LOVE OF ZERO

ROBERT FLOREY • 14m

Robert Florey, a French cineaste, and William Cameron Menzies, a top art director, combined talents to show the influence of THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920) and other European film experiments which tended to be ignored by Hollywood productions. Florey went on to make the the expressionistic MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (1932) and THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS (1946). — Kevin Brownlow

[Featuring a score for solo piano by Donald Sosin.]

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