Film productions of 1905 are significant in that they prepared the great leap cinema would take in the following years. Studios were constructed, and new talents were discovered, among them Albert Capellani and Louis Feuillade. There was creative tension and experimentation in the air. In the same year, Alice Guy adapted The Hunchback of Notre-Dame for the screen. To transport you back to 1905, we present a special screening of Méliès’ work accompanied by live commentary, an open-air screening of Pathé comedies manually projected with equipment from the same period, and replicas of programmes shown in Helsinki and Tunisia in 1905.

Curated by Mariann Lewinsky and Karl Wratschko