The Bloody Lady featuring live score by Claire Rousay

Ad Hoc Cinema in association with Coral Gables Art Cinema presents The Bloody Lady featuring a live score by Claire Rousay

New 2K Restoration

Widely considered one of Slovak animation’s crown jewels, The Bloody Lady is an improbable and bewitching fusion of gothic horror and classic children’s animation, retelling of the infamous Cachtická castle and Báthory folk tale which is often cited as the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Recently treated to a haunting live score by celebrated indie musician Claire Rousay, this underseen gem is a new cult classic in the making.

The Bloody Lady is the centerpiece of Viktor Kubal: Father of Slovak Animation, a retrospective of the landmark Eastern Bloc animator’s pioneering work in much-loved children’s shorts as well as subversive – though no less groundbreaking – feature films.

About the Artist:

Claire Rousay is a Canadian-American musician, composer, and artist currently living in Los Angeles. Rousay’s work operates in genre-spanning fashion. She is primarily known for composing highly emotive whisper-quiet musical works that heavily forefront music concrete and sound design elements like haptic sound and field recordings. These avant-garde elements are often paired with strings, piano, and electronic melodies and textures. Her albums in this vein – on celebrated labels like Thrill Jockey and Shelter Press – gained her notoriety in the international ambient and experimental community.

Rousay remains stylistically mercurial and incorporates generic elements from rock, electronic, hyperpop, noise, folk, free jazz, and more into her compositions. In some ways Rousay is always busy making music about music, and too, music about everyday life, about the ordinary.

Restoration courtesy of the Slovak Film Institute.

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Film Info

Distributor:	Arbelos Films
Country:	Slovakia
Release Year:	1980
Runtime:	77
Director:	Viktor Kubal
Rating:	Not Rated
Language:	In Slovak with English subtitles
Format:	2K DCP