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Director: Milford Thomas
Cast: Toniet Gallego, Mish P. DeLight, James Ferguson,
Allen Jeffrey Rein, Anna May Hirsch
Country: U.S.
Year: 2001
Running Time: 57 min
Format: 35mm, black & white, silent w/live musical
accompaniment
A brand new silent film, shot on Black & White film with an
antique, hand-cranked, 35mm, silent movie camera, shown with
an original musical score performed live by the Baltimore
Chamber Orchestra, conducted by the composer, Anne Richardson.
Loosely based on a Japanese fairy tale, but reset in the
rural American South of the 1920's, Claire is the story
of an elderly male couple who find a little girl in an ear
of corn and raise her as their own. She grows into a remarkable
young woman who touches the lives of everyone she comes in
contact with. Claire celebrates family, magic, and
the gift of togetherness, as well as the beauty & inventiveness
of the silent movie era. Director of Photography, Jonathan
Mellinger, matched film stocks and cinematic style as closely
as possible to that of the 1920's, while Production Designer,
Brentley Wood, and Costume Designer, Todd Roberts, successfully
worked to make Claire look like a newly rediscovered
treasure from the golden age of silent films.
 "This
film is an homage to early cinema when moving pictures were
digital-free and simpler, when it was the picture, the music,
and the moviegoer's own catalogue of experiences which came
together for a truly unique, more intimate experience." -
Producer/Director Milford Thomas
--Skizz Cyzyk
Presented by: Milford Thomas and Anne Richardson
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Milford Thomas began making super-8 horror films in
junior high school and continued in his filmmaking pursuits
through college. After college, he attended Japanese language
school in Japan, where he also landed jobs assisting production
of Japanese pop star music videos and working as an international
production coordinator for Fuji television. In 1994, he returned
home to Atlanta to wait tables and make his own films.
An accomplished and versatile composer/musician, Anne
Richardson received a Bachelor of Music in Composition
from Oberlin Conservatory and a Masters in Composition from
the San Francisco Conservatory. She is currently the director
of Georgia State University's Neighborhood Music School in
Atlanta.
Baltimore Chamber Orchestra:
Kristin Winter-Jones: flute
Leslie Starr: oboe
Adam Ebert: clarinet
Karen Bakkegard: horn
Tammy Seymour: violin 1
Christof Richter: violin 2
Julius Wirth: viola
Fiona Thompson: cello
Sonja Inglefield: harp
Michelle Humphreys: percussion
Tom Jones: percussion
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