Charlie Chaplin’s, The Kid

Iconoclast guitarist and fixture of New York’s downtown music scene, Marc Ribot, lends his distinctive musical personality to a live score for a special screening of Charlie Chaplin’s 1921 silent masterpiece, The Kid. Ribot’s bluesy avant-garde guitar playing is instantly recognizable as the sound of Tom Waits’ albums from the 1980s and1990s. In his own work, he has explored the legacy of free jazz hero Albert Ayler, Cuban bandleader Arsenio Rodríguez, and Haitian classical composer Frantz Casseus. Ribot channels all these influences as a counterpoint to Chaplin’s slapstick and sentimental story of an abandoned child and his adoptive father.