The Birth, Life, and Death of Christ

La Naissance, La Vie et La Mort du Christ (The Birth, Life and Death of Christ) is a 33-minute silent film from 1906 comprised of twenty-five scenes or tableaux, directed by the trail-blazing French filmmaker Alice Guy Blache (1873-1968). This religious film, the very first of its kind and the one for which she is best known, is her crowning achievement. Harbach has grouped the twenty-five scenes into eleven movements, where each movement retains the same emotional impact whether being a standalone scene, or a combination of several. This work was premiered 16 November 2014 at the St. Louis Art Museum under the auspices of the St. Louis International Film Festival and sponsored by the French-language channel TV5MONDE. The event was co-presented by the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The viewing of the 1906 film La Naissance, La Vie et La Mort du Christ was accompanied by Harbach's piece, performed by thirteen musicians and conductor.