412: Giornate del cinema muto II

Archival Spaces 412: Czech Avant-garde Film in the 1930s Uploaded 13 November 2026 Two programs at the Giornate del cinema muto, organized by the Czech National Film Archive in Prague, were dedicated to “the Czech Avant-Garde” from the 1930s, curated by Sylva Poláková, Alena Horníčková, and Jiří Horníček. In the catalogue, the authors mention thatContinue reading “412: Giornate del cinema muto II”

411:  Giornate del cinema muto

Archival Spaces 411 Weimar Uncensored Uploaded 30 October 2026 This year’s Giornate del cinema muto presented a program of films made after the German Revolution, “Weimar Uncensored: Taboos and Transgressions in German Cinema, 1919-1920,” curated by Michael Cowan and Anton Kaes, when on November 12, 1918, the interim government abolished censorship; the Reichslichtspielgesetz of MayContinue reading “411:  Giornate del cinema muto”

409:  Bonn Silent Film Festival III

Archival Spaces 409: Stummfilmtage Bonn 2026 Uploaded 2 October 2026 This is the final installment of my report on this year’s Silent Film Festival in Bonn, Germany. Thursday’s program (8/20/26) began with two religiously themed films, Béhula (1922) and L’Inferno (1911). The former is an exceedingly rare 1920s film from India, a country where probably 97%Continue reading “409:  Bonn Silent Film Festival III”

408:  Bonn Silent Film Festival II

Archival Spaces 408: Summfilmtage Bonn 2026 Uploaded 18 September 2026 The Bonn Silent Film Festival’s online streaming program continued after its opening film, The Saga of Gosta Berling (See Archival Spaces 407) with Kid Boots (1926, Frank Tuttle), starring Eddie Cantor and Clara Bow. The film was digitally restored in 2021 from a 1926 workContinue reading “408:  Bonn Silent Film Festival II”