Zeena Parkins played her score for Jean Genet’s first and only movie Un Chant d’Amour. Genet’s cult film is based upon his novel Our Lady of the Flowers. It depicts the fantasies of a gay, male prisoner and his jailer. For years Un Chant d’Amour was banned in many countries, and was screened only privately or on the underground circuit.
Parkins’ score for this “great poetic masterpiece of power, love and lust in prison” is part of a series of scores she has written for silent films. She presented her compositions for films by Kenneth Anger and Maya Deren at Druga godba 1997.
New score written and performed by Zeena Parkins.
Un Chant d’Amour: Directed by Jean Genet. 25 min., silent, BW, 35mm, France, 1950.
