(September 13, 2017) A spectacular mute and animated movie that combines music and social commitment with the narrative of the frightening and terrifying journey in search for freedom. NYsferatu is a rotoscope recreation of Friedrich W. Murnau’s seminal 1922 film Nosferatu, which will be screened on September 19 at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York with the musical accompaniment by the Marco Cappelli Acustic Trio, featuring Marco Cappelli on guitar, Ken Filiano on bass, and Satoshi Takeishi on percussion. Each background scene has been entirely redrawn to set the film in present day New York City. Taking the first step in a three-year process, Mastrovito and a team of 12 artists drew each background three times to replicate the beautifully eerie flickering shutter effect of early cinema. The artist, whose installations have captivated viewers throughout Europe and New York, aimed to create a summary of our times, a kind of “everybody's biography” using cinema as a popular language.

ABOUT/ NOSFERATU

Considered the masterpiece of the German director and one of the milestones of horror and expressionism, Nosferatu the vampire is inspired freely by Bram Stoker's novel Dracula (1897). Murnau had to change the title, the names of the characters (Count Dracula becomes Count Orlok, played by Max Schreck) and places (from London to Wisborg) for problems related to the legal rights of the work.