You may remember that earlier this year Flying Lotus performed a live score for Harry Smith‘s 1962 film Heaven And Earth Magic at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in Michigan.

The LA-based psychedelic hip-hop stylist is now bringing the show to London. The screening and performance will take place at the Tate Modern‘s Starr Auditorium on August 16; commencing at 7pm, tickets for the event are priced at £10/£8.

Harry Everett Smith, who died in 1991 at the age of 68, was a remarkable polymath. He is best known to music fans for his work as an archivist and ethnomusicologist, compiling and releasing the legendary Anthology of American Folk Music in 1952, but he was also active as an occultist, fine artist and filmmaker and was once described by Kenneth Anger as “the greatest living magician”.

Smith gave the following synopsis of his uncanny animated masterpiece Heaven & Earth Magic: “The first part depicts the heroine’s toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next follows an elaborate exposition of the heavenly land, in terms of Israel and Montreal. The second part depicts the return to Earth from being eaten by Max Müller on the day Edward VII dedicated the Great Sewer of London.”

More information and tickets here.