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My Grandmother -- a silent film by Soviet Georgian director Kote Mikaberidze made in 1929 and banned by the Soviet regime for 40 years -- is finally available on DVD. Beth Custer has coupled this amazing film with her own score (performed by the Beth Custer Ensemble and special guests). Hans Wendl produced the soundtrack and Jeff Cressman recorded it. The DVD has Russian intertitles with narration in English and a few words shadowing in Georgian. (For those who can read the Russian intertitles, an alternate soundtrack on the DVD eliminates the narration leaving the music only). Forgotten for a half-century, Kote Mikaberidze's MY GRANDMOTHER (CHEMI BEBIA/1929) is a delightful example of the Soviet Eccentric Cinema movement as well as an irreverent satire of the then still-young Soviet State system. Noted for its anarchic styles -- which include stop-motion, puppetry, exaggerated camera angles, animation and constructivist sets -- the film unspools the foibles and follies that abound when a Georgian paper pusher, modeled after American silent comic Harold Lloyd, loses his job. Beth Custer created a quick-paced pastiche of American jazz and blues, contemporary classical, and world folk music. Her stellar ensemble, featuring guitarist David James (The Coup, Spearhead), and drummer Jan Jackson (Will Bernard, Chuck Berry), with special guests bassist Todd Sickafoose (Ani Di Franco, Myra Melford), Chris Grady on trumpet (Club Foot Orchestra, Tom Waits), Kristina Forester on cello (Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser), John Ettinger on violin (Scott Amendola, Tony Malaby), narrator Nyls Frykdal (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Faun Fables), and Edisher Dabrundashrili (Georgian words), recorded the score. This new score was originally commissioned by the Pacific Film Archive and recorded with an Aaron Copland Recording Fund award. Also Known As: MOYA BABUSHKA, CHEMI BEBIA (1929)
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