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The Ancient World in Silent Cinema

 

An afternoon & evening of silent film screenings with piano accompaniment and related talks for silent films with settings in Biblical or Near Eastern Antiquity. As with the first screening of films set in ancient Greece & Rome which we held in January, almost all of the films to be screened in June are not available for purchase in video or DVD format, and are rarely shown in cinemas. They survive as viewing copies in film archives. The event is open to the public and admission is free.
ALL ARE WELCOME.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/GrandLat/newsandevents/events/silentcinema

Monday 22 June 2009, at UCL Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AH
http://www.thebloomsbury.com/

AFTERNOON SCREENINGS (2-4PM):
PHARAONIC EGYPT, BABYLON & OLD TESTAMENT
Wanted a Mummy (UK 1910) 4 mins
Sposa del Nilo/ The Bride of the Nile (IT 1911) 11 mins
Vergine di Babilonia / The Virgin of Babylon (IT 1910) 9 mins
Caïn et Abel / Cain and Abel (FR 1911) 5 mins
Sacra Bibbia / The Sacred Bible (IT 1920), episode of ‘The Story of Joseph
in Egypt' 9 mins.
Moïse sauvé des eaux / Moses Saved from the River (Fr 1910) 8 mins
L'exode (FR 1910) 13 mins
La vie de Moïse (FR 1910) interspersed with Life of Moses (US 1909-10) 13
mins
Jephthah's Daughter (US 1909) 6 mins
Jephthah's Daughter (US 1913) 25 mins

TEA/COFFEE BREAK (4-4.30PM)

SPEAKERS (4.30-6PM)
David Mayer (University of Manchester), Margaret Malamud (State University of New Mexico) and Judith Buchanan (University of York)

EVENING SCREENINGS (7-9PM):
OLD & NEW TESTAMENT
Samson et Dalila (FR 1902) 3 mins
Samson (FR 1908) 11 mins
David et Goliath (FR 1910) 8 mins
Reine de Saba / Queen of Sheba (FR 1913) 19 mins
Giuditta e Oloferne (IT 1908) 6 mins
Judith (FR 1910) 8 mins
Aveugle de Jérusalem / The Blind Man of Jerusalem (FR 1909) 8 mins
Vie de Jesus (FR 1905-1914) 8 mins, episodes from childhood to
transfiguration
Vie de Jesus (FR 1905-1914) 18 mins, episodes from annunciation to ascension


THE ANCIENT WORLD IN SILENT CINEMA – RESEARCH PROJECT
We are now also planning the next stage of the project, after the two film screenings in January and June 2009. It will involve the investigation in detail of a broad range of silent films set in antiquity leading to the production of a special issue on The Ancient World in Silent Cinema. We are also in consultation with archivists, librarians, scholars, and festival curators in the UK and abroad to extend the project into an international network of experts, leading to an online database, conferences and publications and, perhaps most importantly, preservation, digitization, and exhibition. If you would like to inquire further about the research project or about these events, please contact Maria Wyke ( Cette adresse email est protégée contre les robots des spammeurs, vous devez activer Javascript pour la voir. ).
We are deeply indebted to the BFI National Film Archive and its staff for all their help, and to UCL Futures and the University of Bristol for their
generous financial support for the first stage of our project.

Organisation : Maria Wyke (Department of Greek and Latin, UCL) Pantelis Michelakis (Department of Classics, University of Bristol)

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