Silent Film Showreel

José Dias approaches silent film as a living form.

Working without a fixed score, he improvises music in real time, treating each screening as a one-off encounter between sound, image, and space. His practice draws on jazz improvisation, cinematic composition, and research into collective memory, particularly through archive film.

In this context, music does not simply accompany the image — it reshapes pacing, reframes narrative, and opens new emotional readings.