If you’ve ever attended a silent film screening with live music, you know just how awesome the experience can be. Back in the days before sound in in cinema it probably got to be a little old hat, but for modern audiences, it’s a real treat.

SIFF Cinema is giving you the chance to experience this great combination first-hand by offering a screening of Red Heroine accompanied by live music from Devil Music Ensemble.

Red Heroine is the only surviving episode from Red Knight Errant, a thirteen-part martial arts saga filmed in China and directed by Wen Yimin all the way back in 1929. Very old films like this are often instructive for modern viewers–you get the opportunity to see what film was like back then and how filmmakers approached their art how they portrayed their visions with the limited technology of the time–but a lot of them are just plain fun to watch, too, like this action packed feature in which a young woman rises from frightened would-be victim to fully trained master warrior.

Devil Music Ensemble add to the excitement of the film with their live soundtrack. The three-piece ensemble has plenty of experience accompanying movies, having provided music for showings of films by Jean Cocteau, Charlie Chaplin, Man Ray and many others.

The film screens on Sunday at 7:30 pm.