Encounters Presents Underscore 003: SIRÂT LIVE

Kangding Ray takes the techno score of Sirât and builds something new from it, pushing far past the soundtrack into its own live work. The film's director Óliver Laxe presents mesmerising, unseen footage shot on set. This isn't a live score, it's the world of the film pulled apart and rebuilt for one night only, in a converted torpedo warehouse on the edge of the Feeder Canal, a gantry crane still slung across the ceiling above the crowd. It's the end of the world, but keep dancing. That world is Sirât: Óliver Laxe's desert odyssey, soundsystem and rave culture at its core. Laxe describes it as a jump into the abyss, a celebration of the end. Raw, visceral and heart-pounding. All in the presence of director Óliver Laxe, who also joins us elsewhere at the festival to share his experiences of making the film. Sirât won the Jury Prize at Cannes and went on to two Oscar nominations. Kangding Ray's score won the Cannes Soundtrack Award and a Goya. In partnership with Crack x MUBI, and with the support of the BFI Film Audience Network, awarding funds from the National Lottery.