currently touring
Charismatic Megafauna is a film and live music collaboration between Lori Goldston and radical experimental documentary film maker Vanessa Renwick. It is an edgy meditation on wolf reintroduction and human intervention.
Berkeley's Fine Arts Cinema commissioned a solo cello score for The Passion of Joan of Arc for a screening that featured the star's daughter, Rene Falconetti, as a special guest. Goldston has performed her score at venues throughout the U.S.
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, directed in 1927 by F.W. Murnau, is the story of a young farmer who is led astray by a city woman. The Northwest Film Forum commissioned Goldston to compose and perform live score with the film in 2011, with percussionist Greg Campbell.
In 2009 I was commissioned by WNYC’s New Sounds Live to compose and perform a live score for Yasujiro Ozu’s silent film Passing Fancy. 
I performed with Phil Gelb on shakuhachi and Greg Campbell on drum set and horn.
Despite a blizzard and the cancellation of thousands of New York area flights we somehow managed a nearly-miraculous last- minute arrival, premiering the score at the World Financial Center in February 2010. We presented it again later in 2010 at the University of Chicago Film Studies Center.
The Seashell and the Clergyman 
is an early French experimental silent film, a collaboration between film maker Germaine Dulac and writer Antonin Artaud. At the time of its release it was banned from Britain, the Board of Film Censors claiming that it was “apparently meaningless” but “If there is a meaning, it is doubtless objectionable.” The Black Cat Orchestra’s score sheds light on the film’s majestic, surreal dramatic tension.
earlier work
Share This Place is a film and live music presentation by Lori Goldston, Kyle Hanson, Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn and Britta Johnson about the lives and loves of insects. It was released as an audio recording and DVD on K Records.
The Black Cat Orchestra was
commissioned by the One Reel Film Festival (part of Seattle's Bumbershoot music festival) to create and perform a live score for Fritz Lang's futuristic silent thriller Spies. 
The live score was also presented by the Olympia Film Festival and Portland Institute on Contemporary Art.
L’inferno is a very early Italian silent film, made in 1911. The Black Cat Orchestra created several versions of their score; over the course many years it was performed at several venues, including the On the Boards and Jewel Box Theater in Seattle, Portland's Northwest Film Center, Show Off Gallery in Bellingham, WA, and the Olympia Film Festival.
Our Round Earth — an abstract experimental film cut from 16mm school science documentaries with a live amplified cello score — was created by film maker Lynn Shelton and cellist/composer Lori Goldston for the Northwest New Works series at Seattle’s On the Boards in 2001.