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[ecrea] The Colour Fantastic: Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema Conference

Fri Nov 14 11:06:09 GMT 2014




The Colour Fantastic: Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema
Conference

Twenty years on from the groundbreaking Amsterdam workshop Disorderly Order: Colours in Silent Film, this conference will celebrate this milestone anniversary by providing a new forum to explore contemporary archival and academic debates around colour in the silent era.

The conference will explore a diverse range of archival and academic topics and provide a stimulating environment for specialists from across different disciplines. It will also include screenings of restored and/or rarely seen films.

The keynote speakers will be filmmaker and writer Peter Delpeut (Lyrical Nitrate and Diva Dolorosa), Tom Gunning (University of Chicago) and Vanessa Toulmin (National Fairground Archive/University of Sheffield).


In addition the event will also include screenings of restored and/or rarely seen films including:
MAUDITE SOIT LA GUERRE (Alfred Machin, Belgium, 1914)

New digital restoration of the pacifist film Maudite soit la guerre(1914) undertaken in 2014 by Cinematheque Royale de Belgique, in collaboration with EYE. This new version is mainly based on the coloured nitrate print held by EYE, including various colour techniques to great dramatic effect. A few additional black and white scenes that were discovered in Belgium and France are also edited in to make the story more complete.
LYRICAL NITRATE (Peter Delpeut, NL, 1990)

This found footage film is a tribute to the pre-1915 filmmaking and to the nitrate film stock. Delpeut compiled many scenes of dramatic nitrate decay, mainly from the Desmet Collection. EYE has now digitized the film and a DVD will be released in December 2014 (in conjunction with the Desmet Collection exhibition in EYE)
WHEN THE EARTH TREMBLED (USA, Lubin, 1913)

Premiere Screening on March 28th

This three reel fiction film, based on the real life San Francisco earthquake of 1906, is part of the Desmet Collection. The new restoration combines the best available images from 3 different sources: The duplicate negatives of the Desmet print held at the MoMA, an English version held by the BFI (in both cases the nitrate print is destroyed due to decay) and a tinted nitrate print with Dutch intertitles that has recently arrived to EYE. The new restoration (partly sponsored by the SF Silent Film Festival) aims to create the most complete version (since all the versions are lacking some footage) and to restore the original tints.

The conference is co-organised by EYE, Giovanna Fossati (University of Amsterdam/ASCA), and the Leverhulme Trust research project Colour in the 1920s: Cinema and Its Intermedial Contexts, run by Sarah Street (University of Bristol) and Joshua Yumibe (University of St Andrews / Michigan State University).

In conjunction with the conference, a new book on silent film colour, Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema by Tom Gunning, Giovanna Fossati, Joshua Yumibe and Jonathon Rosen will be published by Amsterdam University Press and presented at EYE.

Dr Vicky Jackson
Research Assistant
Colour in the 1920s: Cinema and Its Intermedial Contexts
Department of Film and Television
University of Bristol
Cantocks Close
Woodland Road
Bristol
BS8 1UP



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