Sun

25/06

Piazzetta Pier Paolo Pasolini > 22:15

Il secolo del cinema: Best of 1903

Introduced by

Mariann Lewinsky and Karl Wratschko

Piano accompaniment by

John Sweeney and drum accompaniment by Frank Bockius

Carbon arc lantern projection

One of our goals is to recreate a screening experience of the type travelling cinema operators of the time offered to their audiences, combining in every programme a great variety of films from different séries de production. The principle is applied in its purest form in this Best of 1903 programme, an anthology of visual pleasures: comic scenes (scènes comique) with great, witty humour, the beauty of image composition in nonfiction (scènes de plein air), the irresistible filmogenie of scènes de danses and their performers, aesthetic mastery inherent even in scènes militaires, astonishing scènes à truc, the epoch-making achievements of an exceptional féerie, and, surprise, eroticism in a German educational film.
Another major concern of ours is to present – with the support of the carbon-light projection on the Piazzetta Pasolini – the colour techniques of early cinema to a contemporary audience. So two of the film with the most glorious colours of 1903 (Le Chaudron infernal and Les Royaume de fées by Méliès) can be found in this programme. As for technical aspects, the films shot by Émile Lauste for the German branch of the Mutoscope and Biograph Syndicate were originally on 68mm and perfectly illustrate why the phrase “bigger than life” is applied to films shot on any format larger than 35mm. And last but not least we continue the tradition of screening in the summer heat of Bologna some snow (and a bear).

Mariann Lewinsky and Karl Wratschko

Projection
Info

Sunday 25/06/2023
22:15

Subtitle

Original version with subtitles

Captain Deasy’s Daring Drive: Ascent

Year: 1903
Country: Germania
Running time: 5'
Sound
Mute
Edition
2023

Planche à rainures

Year: 1903
Country: Francia
Running time: 1'
Sound
Mute
Edition
2023

Descente dans la batterie

Year: 1903
Country: Francia
Running time: 1'
Sound
Mute
Edition
2023

Akt-Skulpturen

Year: 1903
Country: Germania
Running time: 4'
Film Version

German intertitles

Sound
Mute
Edition
2023

Valse excentrique

Year: 1903
Country: Francia
Running time: 2'
Sound
Mute
Edition
2023

A Troupe of Russian Dancers (2)

Year: 1903
Country: Regno Unito
Running time: 1'
Sound
Mute
Edition
2023

L’Ours et la sentinelle

Year: 1903
Country: Francia
Running time: 2'
Sound
Mute
Edition
2023

Le Gendarme et les domestiques

Director: [Gaston Velle]
Year: 1903
Country: Francia
Running time: 2'
Sound
Mute
Edition
2023

Le Chaudron infernal

Director: Georges Méliès
Year: 1903
Country: Francia
Running time: 2'
Sound
Mute
Edition
2023

Le Royaume de fées

Director: Georges Méliès
Country: Francia
Running time: 17'
Sound
Mute
Edition
2023

Captain Deasy’s Daring Drive: Decent

Year: 1903
Country: Germania
Running time: 3'
Sound
Mute
Edition
2023