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Makia Matsumura

@unpianistique.bsky.social

Heartfelt thanks to Austrian Cultural Forum for having me accompany this very special screening of the silent films by Louis Kolm-Fleck tonight! 🇦🇹🎞️🎹 The festivity continues tomorrow at Metrograph 🥳📽️🎶

#silentfilm #livemusic #louisekolmfleck
#womenfilmmakers

acfny.org/event/louise...

November 8, 2025 at 3:11 AM

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San Francisco Film Preserve

@sffilmpreserve.bsky.social

🎬 Sun, Nov 9 • 7:15 PM
📍 AFI Silver Theatre, Silver Spring, MD
🎹 Live score by @unpianistique.bsky.social
🎙️ Introduction by film historian Farran Smith Nehme
🎟️ silver.afi.com/movie...

Part of the 2025 Silent Cinema Showcase — a champagne cocktail of romance, wit, and silent-era style.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM

Makia Matsumura

@unpianistique.bsky.social

November performances

Louise Kolm-Fleck: Silent Films of a Feminist Pioneer
11/7 6:30p @ Austrian Cultural Forum
11/8 12p & 2:15p @ Metrograph
acfny.org/event/louise...

11/9 AFI Silver Classic Film Weekend
3 screnings @ 4:45p, 7:15p and 9:30p
silver.afi.com/events/detai...

#silentfilm #livemusic

October 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM

Makia Matsumura

@unpianistique.bsky.social

Repeat screening of Eric von Stroheim’s FOOLISH WIVES at MoMA on Thursday, October 30 at 7:30pm, with me at 🎹💁🏻‍♀️

#silentfilm #livemusic

O Bestiário ou Cortejo de Orfeu (Bestiary, or the Parade of Orpheus). 1995. Written and directed by João César Monteiro Foolish Wives. 1922. Written and directed by Erich von Stroheim | MoMA

O Bestiário ou Cortejo de Orfeu (Bestiary, or the Parade of Orpheus). 1995. Portugal. Written and directed by João César Monteiro. With Monteiro, Raquel Ascensão. 35mm. In Portuguese; English subtitle...

www.moma.org

October 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM

Reposted by Makia Matsumura

San Francisco Film Preserve

@sffilmpreserve.bsky.social

✨From our archive to AFI Silver’s big screen!✨

San Francisco Film Preserve is thrilled to bring our brand-new 4K restoration of THE GARDEN OF EDEN (1928) to the AFI Silver Classic Film Weekend on Sunday, November 9.

#SanFranciscoFilmPreserve #TheGardenofEden #FilmSky
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October 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM

Makia Matsumura

@unpianistique.bsky.social

I’ll be accompanying Eric von Stroheim’s FOOLISH WIVES tomorrow at 1pm at MoMA. If you can’t make it, don’t worry - there’s another chance to catch it on Thursday Oct 26 at 7:30pm 😊

#silentfilm #livemusic

O Bestiário ou Cortejo de Orfeu (Bestiary, or the Parade of Orpheus). 1995. Written and directed by João César Monteiro Foolish Wives. 1922. Written and directed by Erich von Stroheim | MoMA

O Bestiário ou Cortejo de Orfeu (Bestiary, or the Parade of Orpheus). 1995. Portugal. Written and directed by João César Monteiro. With Monteiro, Raquel Ascensão. 35mm. In Portuguese; English subtitle...

www.moma.org

October 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM

Makia Matsumura

@unpianistique.bsky.social

Next up: HÄXAN at the Museum of the Moving Image this Friday at 7pm 🕯️🧹🧙🏻‍♀️😈⛪️📽️🎞️🎹

#silentfilm #livemusic #darkmagic #halloween

Häxan (with live piano) – Museum of the Moving Image

A truly singular work in horror film history, this bizarre relic of the silent era from Danish director Benjamin Christensen is both a work of the mythic-supernatural and a documentary-style exposé of...

movingimage.org

October 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM

Makia Matsumura

@unpianistique.bsky.social

Wonderful to be back at Museum of the Moving Image today to accompany DIARY OF A LOST GIRL (1929). Looking forward to another screening here this Friday, Oct 24, for HÄXAN (1922) at 7pm. 🙏🎞️🎹

movingimage.org/event/haxan/
#silentfilm #livemusic

October 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM

Makia Matsumura

@unpianistique.bsky.social

Preparation underway at @japansociety.org for tonight’s Ozu screening with live accompaniment! 📽️🎞️🎹 @jsfilmnyc.bsky.social

“That Night’s Wife” (その夜の妻), showtime at 6pm, for more info & tickets: japansociety.org/events/that-...

#yasijiroozu #小津安二郎
#shigehikohasumi #蓮實重彦
#silentfilm #livemusic

October 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM

Makia Matsumura

@unpianistique.bsky.social

October performance schedule:

@ Japan Society
October 11: That Night’s Wife
October 18: Kentucky Pride
japansociety.org/film/shigueh...

@ Museum of the Moving Image
October 19: Diary of a Lost Girl
October 24: Häxan
movingimage.org/series/silen...

#silentfilm #livemusic

September 29, 2025 at 5:37 AM

Reposted by Makia Matsumura

Sean Gilman

@theendofcinema.bsky.social

Incredible things happening at @japansociety.org

japansociety.org/film/shigueh...

Shiguéhiko Hasumi: Another History of the Movie in America and Japan

A carte blanche series curated by Shiguéhiko Hasumi, Japan's greatest living film scholar whose widely influential writings challenge western narratives of Japanese film history.

japansociety.org

September 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM

Makia Matsumura

@unpianistique.bsky.social

Excited to be bringing The Dragon Painter (1919), featuring Sessue Hayakawa, to New Hampshire next week. 📽️🎞️🎹 Big thanks to Apple Hill for the invitation! 🙏
#silentfilm #livemusic

applehill.org/concerts/con...

August 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM

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Maggie Hennefeld

@hennefem.bsky.social

Excited for Street Angel (1928) today in MoMA Silent Movie Week!!! 🎞️📽️ With live accompaniment by @unpianistique.bsky.social 🎶🎶

www.moma.org/calendar/eve...

August 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM

Makia Matsumura

@unpianistique.bsky.social

This Sunday @ 4PM, I’ll be accompanying Street Angel by Frank Borzage at MoMA’s annual Silent Movie Week. This is the 3rd year in a row I’ve accompanied a Borzage film at SMW; I look forward to diving into another of his classics. Hope you can join if you’re in town! #silentfilm #livemusic #momafilm

Street Angel. 1928. Directed by Frank Borzage Ko-Ko's Hot Dog. 1928. Directed by Dave Fleischer | MoMA

Street Angel. 1928. USA. Directed by Frank Borzage. Screenplay by Philip Klein, Marion Orth, Henry Roberts Symonds, based on the play by Monckton Hoffe. With Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Alberto Rab...

www.moma.org

August 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM

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Maggie Hennefeld

@hennefem.bsky.social

oohhhh!!! full schedule for MoMA's silent film week (july 30 - aug 5) includes SAXOPHON SUSI 🎷, Borzage's STREET ANGEL, live music by @unpianistique.bsky.social & @silentfilmmusic.bsky.social and other irresistible celluloid gems!!! 🎞️🎶😍

www.moma.org/calendar/fil...

Silent Movie Week 2025 | MoMA

Film series. Jul 30–Aug 5, 2025. The Museum of Modern Art presents the third annual Silent Movie Week, featuring seven recent silent film restorations screened over seven consecutive evenings. The ser...

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July 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM

Makia Matsumura

@unpianistique.bsky.social

Fishtown, Philadelphia

June 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM

Makia Matsumura

@unpianistique.bsky.social

Last night, I had the honor of accompanying BODY AND SOUL at Walter Reade Theater, which happens to be in the same building as the dorm I lived in during my first two years in NYC. A full-circle moment - I’m deeply grateful and humbled. 🥹🙏 #silentfilm #livemusic

June 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM

Makia Matsumura

@unpianistique.bsky.social

I'm honored to be accompanying the opening screening, BODY AND SOUL, on Friday June 20 at 6PM at Walter Reade Theater 🎹📽️🎞️🎶 @filmlinc.bsky.social

#silentfilm #livemusic

Body and Soul + Us

Jordan Peele’s haunted house turned home–invasion thriller is preceded by pioneering Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux’s boldest surviving film, with a reception and conversation with Shana L. Redmond, D...

www.filmlinc.org

June 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM

Makia Matsumura

@unpianistique.bsky.social

Second chance to catch CHESS FEVER + THE LAST COMMAND at MoMA, today at 4pm! 🎹📽️🎞️🎶♟️🎖️

#MoMAFilm #silentfilm #livemusic

Makia Matsumura @unpianistique.bsky.social · Jun 8

I'll be accompanying CHESS FEVER (1925) & THE LAST COMMAND (1928) at MoMA’s “A Theater Near You” series on June 12 @ 7pm & June 18 @ 4pm 🎹🎹

#silentfilm #livemusic #momafilm

www.moma.org/calendar/eve...

Chess Fever. 1925. Directed by Vsevolod I. Pudovkin The Last Command. 1928. Directed by Josef von Sternberg | MoMA

Chess Fever. 1925. USSR. Directed by Vsevolod I. Pudovkin. Screenplay by Pudovkin, Nikolai Shpikovsky. With Jose Capablanca, Zakhar Darevsky, Natalie Glan. 35mm. Silent, with musical accompaniment. En...

www.moma.org

June 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM

Makia Matsumura

@unpianistique.bsky.social

I'll be accompanying CHESS FEVER (1925) & THE LAST COMMAND (1928) at MoMA’s “A Theater Near You” series on June 12 @ 7pm & June 18 @ 4pm 🎹🎹

#silentfilm #livemusic #momafilm

www.moma.org/calendar/eve...

Chess Fever. 1925. Directed by Vsevolod I. Pudovkin The Last Command. 1928. Directed by Josef von Sternberg | MoMA

Chess Fever. 1925. USSR. Directed by Vsevolod I. Pudovkin. Screenplay by Pudovkin, Nikolai Shpikovsky. With Jose Capablanca, Zakhar Darevsky, Natalie Glan. 35mm. Silent, with musical accompaniment. En...

www.moma.org

June 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM

Makia Matsumura

@unpianistique.bsky.social

I wrote a new piece!

“Piano Rain II”

Performed as part of Composers Concordance Presents 15th Annual Comp-Play-Comp Marathon 'Motion'
@ the 13th Annual CompCord Festival – Motion –
Sunday, May 25th, 2025 at Drom NYC

Special thanks to @genepritsker.bsky.social

youtu.be/5ktw-xPEXcs?...

June 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM

Makia Matsumura

@unpianistique.bsky.social

I'll be accompanying SALOMÉ (1923) at MoMA’s “Queer and
Uncensored” series - May 28 @ 4:30pm & June 4 @ 2pm 🎹🎹

#silentfilm #livemusic #momafilm

Salomé. 1923. Directed by Alla Nazimova Fuses. 1965. Directed by Carolee Schneemann | MoMA

Salomé. 1923. USA. Directed by Alla Nazimova. DCP. Silent. 74 min. Legend has it that openly lesbian filmmaker Alla Nazimova assembled an all-queer cast for her highly stylized adaptation of Oscar Wil...

www.moma.org

May 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM

Makia Matsumura

@unpianistique.bsky.social

Excited to return to Jacob Burns Film Center’s “Restored and Rediscovered: A Film Preservation Festival” today to accompany JUST AROUND THE CORNER 🎹📽️🎞️🎶

@burnsfilmcenter.bsky.social @mcastimovies.bsky.social

#silentfilm #livemusic #restoredandrediscovered #burnsfilmcenter #jbfc