It was the desire to create such a shift that led Anna Siomopoulos, Patricia Zimmermann and their colleagues at Ithaca College in New York to commission a new score by Fe Nunn in 2004 for a screening of Within Our Gates (USA, 1920, Oscar Michaeux) as a part of Black History Month. Combining a jazz quartet, African drumming and spoken-word performance, Siomopoulos and Zimmermann describe this new score as an attempt to “destabilize the film text, reanimate film reception, and complicate film spectatorship through music, spo- ken word, and multiple voices.” The project was motivated by the need to “rethink the exhibition of politically significant silent films” in.
