The Night Has a Thousand Eyes / The Night Has a Thousand Ears






A/V installation
3 cathodic-ray tube TVs and 3 speakers.
Laura Agnusdei
28-29/04/2017
Haagse Kunstkring
Den Haag (NL)






All video loops are taken from film noir from 40's and 50's. The aim of the installation is to free them from the narrative for empowering their evocative connotations. In this period of the history of cinema montage was used to creating an illusion of continuity in the narrative so I used 3 tv screens to disable this mechanism. Then as a musician I tried to compose music that was as powerful as these images deserve. Sound materials are predominantly made with electronic analog devices. I think my work like a celebration of cinema as art that can create many alternative world's to exist in.







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Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino has invited Julie's Haircut to produce new music for the Josef von Sternberg's classic silent film 'The Last Command' (1928). They will present this new soundtrack live in two exclusive premieres on April 6th in Trento (Teatro Sanbàpolis) and April 11th in Torino (Cinema Massimo). 'The Last Command' is a 1928 film directed by Josef von Sternberg, and written by John F. Goodrich and Herman J. Mankiewicz from a story by Lajos Bíró from an original idea by Ernst Lubitsch. Star Emil Jannings won the very first Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performances in this film. In 2006, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for the National Film Registry. The film tells the story of a former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar who ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
A short movie directed by Lorenzo Pullega
original soundtrack by Federico Montevecchi and Laura Agnusdei
Kurutta Ippeji - live soundrack by KyoKyoKyo






The Last command - live soundtrack by JULIE'S HAIRCUT






Kurutta Ippeji (1926) is a cult silent Japanese movie directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa, a former female impersonator who entered films in 1917 as an actor, turned to directing in 1922 and made some of the most formally brilliant Japanese films of the following decades. An old print of Kurutta Ippeji (A Page of Madness) was found by Kinugasa in his attic and re-released in the 1970s. Time Out Magazine, praised the film, writing, "A Page of Madness remains one of the most radical and challenging Japanese movies ever seen here".

KyoKyoKyo is a musical trio from Bologna, composed by Carlo Marrone (Guitars, electronics), Bob Nowhere (guitar and synths) and Laura Agnusdei (saxophone, electronics) that ranges from rock-noise, ambient and lyrical moments.