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Out of the Inkwell: Koko the Clown Silent Shorts featuring live accompaniment from Professor Ben Model

Wednesday, April 30th at 8pm
Free and Open to the Public

Join CFILM for a program of classic Fleischer animated shorts highlighting the studio's earliest iconic animated character. Each time the artist brings Koko to life out of the inkwell, the clown and his dog Fitz get into all sorts of goofy, surreal trouble - often crossing over into the live-action world to wreak havoc!

BEN MODEL is one of the nation’s leading silent film accompanists, and performs on both piano and theatre organ. Ben works full-time presenting and accompanying silent films in a wide variety of venues and festivals around the USA and internationally, carrying on a tradition he learned from silent film organist Lee Erwin (1919-2000).

Over the past 4 decades Ben has created and performed thousands of live scores for several hundred silent films. Ben is a resident film accompanist at the Museum of Modern Art (NY) and at the Library of Congress’ Packard Campus Theatre, is a regular at festivals such as the TCM Classic Film Festival, Capitolfest and the Kansas Silent Film Festival, and performs regularly at historic theaters, museums, schools and other venues around the US and internationally.