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“The atmosphere was absolutely magical… hundreds of people seemed utterly spellbound.” (East End Film Festival 2012)
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“One of the spring’s coolest events… Minima capture the film’s disturbing mood perfectly.” (Daily Telegraph)
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“Minima are one of the leading bands accompanying silent film in Europe.” (Robert Rider, Head of Cinema, Barbican Centre, London)
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Caligari Experience in Malta

8 Nov 2022: We take a short break in the middle of our two-week Nosferatu tour to return to Malta for a performance of the award-winning, multi-media Caligari Experience.
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Nosferatu centenary tour

12 Nov 2021: Nosferatu turns 100 in 2022. We’re making a head-start on the centenary tour, with shows this month, all through next year and culminating in a two-week stint next autumn.
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Caligari 100

17 Jun 2019: We will be touring our reworked score for “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” for its centenary in 2020, starting with a screening at Nottingham Contemporary on 11 January.
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Frankenstein

14 May 2018: University of London’s immersive “Living Frankenstein” event on May 23rd will feature our live score to an extract of the classic 1931 James Whale film.
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Malta International Arts Festival

6 Apr 2018: We are very excited to announce that we will be playing our score to the 1925 “Phantom of the Opera” at this year’s Malta International Arts Festival on July 5th.
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50th Phantom show

18 Dec 2017: The fabulous 1925 Phantom of the Opera, featuring Lon Chaney, is our most popular score. We have our 50th show coming up in February. Here’s to the next 50!
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New CD: Phantom of the Opera

15 Jun 2017: After more than three years of playing this score we now have a CD of it available for sale, a live concert recording from performances between 2014 and 2016.
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Vampyr at the Barbican

30 Nov 2016: We are accompanying a special screening of “Vampyr”, in all its Lynch-esque bizarreness at London’s Barbican Centre on January 8th, with Stephen Horne.
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10 years, 200 shows

11 Aug 2016: Today is the tenth anniversary of the first Minima performance, which took place underneath London Bridge. Our next show – Swansea in October – will be our 200th!
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New CD: Nosferatu & Caligari

19 Jul 2016: We are very pleased to be releasing the recording of our “Nosferatu” soundtrack, on a new joint CD along with highlights from our score for “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”.
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Shuffle Festival

14 Jun 2016: Minima and Stephen Horne will premiere a new score for William Raban’s acclaimed 1986 “Thames Film” at this year’s magical outdoor Shuffle Festival in London.
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New film score: Vampyr

5 Jan 2016: Minima have been working with silent film piano accompanist Stephen Horne on a rescore to this 1932 Carl Dreyer film. The first screening is in March 2016.
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The Caligari Experience

26 Nov 2015: The Compass Presents multi-media production “The Caligari Experience”, featuring our live score, won the 2015 Media Innovation Awards Live Event category.
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