Live music performed and set to rare silent films of the Dada movement will be featured Saturday night at the Wexner Center, for the avant garde in all of us.The 5th annual “Avant Garage Music and Film Festival: an evening of rare film and live musical accompaniment” breaks away from the traditional viewing of silent film, said Dave Filipi, associate curator of the media arts at the Wexner Center.”Traditionally, silent film is accompanied by a piano, pipe organ or a symphony orchestra. This is a new way to introduce people to silent film–maybe they would be interested in the band. That will draw them in and show them silent film really is interesting. For people who are already interested in silent film, this event is a new way of energizing them by pairing the movies with modern types of music,” Filipi said.Six short films from and around the time of the Dada movement will be featured. The Dada movement was an international art and literary movement that flourished between 1915-1922. Dada’s purpose was to protest the senseless violence of World War I.”Entr’ Act” (1924) is a 12 minute film which has been called “the exemplary film of the Dada movement” by P. Adams Sitney. A local band, Koo Stark, composed the music they will play as the movie is shown.Chris Conti, the drummer of Koo Stark, said they have broken the film and song into sections with samples. “Entr’ Act” allowed our music to be more schizophrenic,” Conti said. “The movie is an assault of random images strung together. It’s an experimental film, but it makes better sense with music.””Story of a Gin Bottle” (1925, 10 minutes) was recently uncovered by local film distributor Tim Lanza, who organized “Avant Garage.””We came upon it, and ‘Story of a Gin Bottle’ was not in any catalog,” Lanza explained. “It was sitting in boxes languishing. We’re probably the only people who have it.”Made during Prohibition, “Story of a Gin Bottle” is a propaganda film about the evils of alcohol.”It’s an absurd story about bathtub gin and how it destroys lives,” Lanza said. “It’s way over the top. I think it’s funny though, in this day.”Guitarist Matt Newman of Columbus will accompany “Gin Bottle.”Other films shown will be “Conquest of the Pole” (1912, 10 minutes) and Man Ray’s “The Mysteries of the Chateau of Dice” (1929, 16 minutes). Mark Goodell and Ben Pridgeon will incorporate horn and drum machine during these films. “Menilmontant” (1924, 25 minutes), a film by Dimitri Kirsanoff, has been called “the nearly perfect film” due to its lack of titles, use of natural sets and filmed with a hand-held camera. Pointless Orchestra, out of Kent, Ohio, will accompany “Menilmontant.”Lanza picks bands for “Avant Garage” based on people who approach him about the show and people whom he knows will do a good job. Once the bands are selected, he lets them pick the movie that would suit their style best.”All music is chosen by the bands,” Lanza said. “I think it’s important for them to choose the film because they have to respond to it.” “The Avant Garage Music and Film Festival V” will be at the Wexner Center Saturday at 7 p.m. For tickets, call the Wexner Center at 292-3535.