Murnau’s Faust (1926) is reimagined in a new immersive live cinema performance marking 250 years since Goethe’s first draft of Faust and the centenary of its landmark expressionist adaptation.

After last year’s sell-out staging of Nosferatu at Abney Chapel, The Enchanted Cinema returns to the atmospheric chapel reached through Abney Park Cemetery at night, presenting a live score performed by:
Celeste Cantor-Stephens — trumpet
Caelia Lunniss — violin
Kieron Chissik — guitar, organ, electric viola, and choral FX

Murnau’s Faust (1926) is a landmark of German Expressionist cinema, using bold imagery and dramatic light and shadow to tell its story of a pact with the devil and a world in moral collapse. Here, the film is carried by a live score: trumpet cutting through the action with lines stretched through delay and space, violin tracing folk-inspired melodies through its emotional shifts, and electric viola shaped in real time into layered textures that expand the film’s atmosphere in addition to a host of ingenious foley sound FX. 

For more information:‍ ‍‍ Please visit https://abneypark.org/upcoming-events/2026/9/23/murnaus-faust-1926-a-live-amp-immersive-centenary-score-with-the-enchanted-cinema to book your tickets.