“Starewicz’s shorts, created in the early years of the 20th century, are charming in their dotty, sweetly surreal old-worldliness, a sensation matched by the wonderfully mercurial scores written by the Tin Hat Quartet. Dreamily eclectic, the music is a deft soup of American folk melodies with middle-European hamishness, the high modernism of Stravinsky and Schoenberg with the brash, wise-guy jazz of Looney Tunes composer Carl Stalling and Raymond Scott. Familiar sounds bubble up and tickle the ear, then transmute into something witty, rich and strange.”
—Variety
