Cinderella, The Scarecrow and A Trip to the Moon.

Composer and musician Justin Firefly Clarke (Shades of Shakti, Congress of Animals, Fly My Pretties) has written three new scores for this series of brilliant silent shorts, which are premiering at The Roxy Cinema.

The music will be performed live by a group of New Zealand’s leading guitarists: Justin Firefly Clarke, Callum Allardice, Luca Sturny, and Aslan Rowlands. Conducted by Georgia Steel.

A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès, 1902). The film that launched an entire genre, “It's gorgeous, it's ludicrous and it's heaps of fun” – Pamela Hutchinson, Silent London

Cinderella (1922). Pioneering animator Lotte Reiniger takes on one of the world’s most famous fairytales and makes it her own with her signature silhouette animation technique – Movies Silently.

The Scarecrow (1920). Buster Keaton's two-reel work in the early '20s was incredibly rich -- nearly every picture is funny and even the shorts that fall short of classic contain moments of comic brilliance. Because Keaton has so much excellent work from this time in his career, some films get overlooked unfairly, and The Scarecrow is one of them – Janiss Garza, All Movie.