Instruments of Desire — Emilie May Meyer

Emilie May Meyer
Selected Projects

Instruments of Desire: Chamber Music & Film Program
Hamlet Hail to the Thief
Cabinet Magazine
Archiving, Collecting, Bookselling
Everything Studio
Playlists and Compilations
Dead End Books
Illustrated Arabian Nights
Black Mountain College: Chance Mechanisms
The Island of Ingmar Bergman
The New York Public Library Picture Collection
Department of Art History Research Journal

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Instruments of Desire, The Roxy

Curatorial

Our fall 2026 series presents four films that set classical music and narrative storytelling in unusually close counterpoint. Each screening opens with a specially conceived live acoustic performance expanding on the film's musical world.

I. All the Mornings of the World

Alain Corneau | 1991
April 29th, SOLD OUT, Thursday October 8
Screening to open with a performance and presentation of French Baroque selections on the viola da gamba by Marc Armitano Domingo.

II. The Red Violin

François Girard | 1998
Thursday October 22
Screening to open with a performance of film composer John Corigliano’s The Red Violin Caprices by Chili Ekman.

III. The Draughtsman’s Contract

Peter Greenaway | 1982
Thursday November 5, SOLD OUT
Screening to open with a selection of works by Henry Purcell arranged for recorder quartet, performed by the New York Recorder Guild.

IV. Tár

Todd Field | 2022
Thursday November 19, SOLD OUT
Film introduced by cultural critic Maia Wyman, aka Broey Deschanel. The Candide Quartet performs Alban Berg’s String Quartet, Opus 3.

Emilie May Meyer Selected Projects