Battleship Potemkin w/ S!nk live score

Name: Battleship Potemkin w/ S!nk live score
Genre: Drama
Released: 2026-03-06
Duration: 1 h 15 min
Cast: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov

This screening will be accompanied by a live-performed score by Edinburgh-based improvisational group S!nk. In order to keep the revolutionary flame alive, Sergei Eisenstein, the director, purportedly proposed almost a hundred years ago that a new score be made for Battleship Potemkin every twenty years. Since then, among others, Shostakovitch and the Pet Shop Boys have made notable contributions. S!nk are delighted to return to the Filmhouse to present our own new live soundtrack to this milestone in cinematic history. The opening title card of the film describes how an idea can spread and gather force until its revolutionary power tears reality itself. S!nk's score takes this principle as inspiration. Simple ideas, though a process of simultaneous composition/improvisation using piano, voice, saxophones, strings, electric guitar, loops and found/electronic percussion, gather form and emerge as complex sweeping orchestration. S!nk aspire to do justice to the ingenuity and power of this remarkable film. It is 1905 and the words of Lenin are reverberating throughout Russia: "Revolution is war. Of all the wars known in history, it is the only lawful, rightful, just and truly great war... In Russia this war has been declared and won." The crew of the czarist battleship Potemkin, some of whom are sympathetic to Lenin and his cause, have had their fill of the maggoty meat being served them. When their protests become too vocal, a group of them are rounded up and confronted with a firing squad. Just as the order to shoot is being delivered, Vakulinchuk (Alexander Antonov), a sailor standing on the sidelines, urges his comrades to rise in revolt and a fierce battle ensues. Naturally, the inspirational and highly referenced Russian classic is close to political propaganda, but it is also a historical document – today perhaps most importantly for the history of film – and its technical and visual accomplishments are second to none. A must-see for anyone interested in the art of film.DramaPT1H15M12A2026-03-06

Aleksandr Antonov

Vladimir Barsky

Grigori Aleksandrov

Sergei Eisenstein

Yakov Bliokh

Battleship Potemkin w/ S!nk live score"Battleship Potemkin w/ S!nk live score"

Showtimes

March 6, 8:15 pm