Going with the flow

SUNDAY’S opening night at the Corona Cork Film Festival will see the screening of The Great Flood, a film-music collaboration between avant garde filmmaker Bill Morrison and pioneering musician, Bill Frisell.

Frisell will perform a live original soundtrack with his band at Cork Opera House to accompany the screening. The film, commissioned by Carnegie Hall, is touring Europe and the Cork Film Festival is the only Irish date for this performance.

The Great Flood is inspired by the catastrophic Mississippi river flood of 1927 and the subsequent transformation of American society. In the spring of that year, the river broke its embankments and inundated 27,000 square miles. Part of its legacy was the forced exodus of displaced sharecroppers who left plantations and migrated to northern cities. From a musical point of view, the exodus influenced the evolution of the blues and subsequent genres.