Entering the Ancient World through Silent Cinema
Free film screening & discussion
Saturday 21st November 2015
2 to 6pm The Cinema Museum, 2 Dugard Way, London SE11 4TH. http://www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/
This film screening invites audiences to enter the ancient world through rarely seen, aesthetically rich, and immersive silent films set in ancient Greece or Rome. Through their enticing use of gesture and look, exotic sets and extravagant costumes, colour, music and movement, these films still offer spectators the opportunity to enter into history and experience a distant past where life is lived differently or to an extreme. Introduced by Maria Wyke (University College London) and Pantelis Michelakis (University of Bristol), whose research investigates the representation of antiquity in silent cinema, a professional pianist (Stephen Horne) will improvise throughout. There will be opportunity to discuss the films also with Bryony Dixon (Curator of Silent Films at the British Film Institute) and Nick Lowe (Classicist & film critic, Royal Holloway University of London). The programme will include rare silent films obtained directly from film archives in London, Paris and Washington, range from the 1900s to the 1920s, and include mythic, historical, tragic and comic representations of the ancient world. Full programme details will be available later in November.
book here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/entering-the-ancient-world-through-silent-cinema-tickets-18684865937
For any further inquiries, contact Maria Wyke ([log in to unmask])
part of the Being Human Festival http://www.beinghumanfestival.org
Professor Maria Wyke
Department of Greek and Latin, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.
Co-Director, UCL Centre for Research on the Dynamics of Civilisation (CREDOC), http://www.ucl.ac.uk/research-frontiers/civilisation; Chair, Executive Board of UCL Grand Challenge for Intercultural Interaction (GCII); http://www.ucl.ac.uk/intercultural-interaction
Caesar in the USA (University of California Press, 2012) www.amazon.co.uk/Caesar-USA-Maria-Wyke/dp/0520273915
The Ancient World in Silent Cinema, edited with Pantelis Michelakis (Cambridge University Press, 2013) www.cambridge.org/9781107016101
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