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7:00 PM
Lotte Reiniger: The Adventures of Prince Achmed | with Live Music by TENTENKO
film screening|EU Film Days 2025
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シアター・イメージフォーラム, 東京
- Language German with Japanese subtitles
- Price 1500 Yen, Seniors: 1300 Yen, Students: 800 Yen
On the opening day of this year’s EU Film Days in Tokyo, Tokyo-based singer, producer, and DJ Tentenko brings a landmark of film history to life through a live sound performance. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) by Lotte Reiniger - the world’s oldest surviving feature-length animated film - will be screened with Japanese subtitles and accompanied by Tentenko’s live music. Her performance offers an entirely new sonic experience of this milestone in European animation history.
Painstakingly created over three years using 250,000 delicate paper cutouts, layers of transparent paper, and a single-frame camera setup, "The Adventures of Prince Achmed" marks a pioneering moment in animation history. Its visual intricacy and handcrafted technique continues to captivate audiences to this day.
Inspired by tales from One Thousand and One Nights, the silhouette film follows Prince Achmed on a magical flying horse as he journeys through distant lands, falls in love with the fairy Pari Banu, defends her from demons and sorcerers, and ultimately joins forces with Aladdin, whose enchanted lamp becomes key to his quest.
Told in five acts, the film explores themes of transformation and betrayal, ghostly battles and magical duels. It unfolds an ornate visual language that fuses the mythical richness of Oriental storytelling with the aesthetic traditions of Asian shadow theatre – a masterwork of early cinematic imagination.
Painstakingly created over three years using 250,000 delicate paper cutouts, layers of transparent paper, and a single-frame camera setup, "The Adventures of Prince Achmed" marks a pioneering moment in animation history. Its visual intricacy and handcrafted technique continues to captivate audiences to this day.
Inspired by tales from One Thousand and One Nights, the silhouette film follows Prince Achmed on a magical flying horse as he journeys through distant lands, falls in love with the fairy Pari Banu, defends her from demons and sorcerers, and ultimately joins forces with Aladdin, whose enchanted lamp becomes key to his quest.
Told in five acts, the film explores themes of transformation and betrayal, ghostly battles and magical duels. It unfolds an ornate visual language that fuses the mythical richness of Oriental storytelling with the aesthetic traditions of Asian shadow theatre – a masterwork of early cinematic imagination.
Live music
TENTENKO
TENTENKO is a Tokyo-based electronic musician. As a solo artist, she has released the albums An Antworten on the German label TAL and The Soft Cave with Couldn't Care More (DE). Together with Atsuhiro Ito, she forms the experimental duo ZVIZMO, whose albums ZVIZMO and ZVIZMO II were released on Black Smoker Records (Japan). Currently, she curates the party series Ponpoko-yama at the Tokyo venue FORESTLIMIT in Hatagaya - a musical project inspired by the multifaceted cultural symbolism of the Japanese tanuki, transforming its folklore-rich associations into sonic narratives.