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“From the Pathé-Baby to the 9.5 mm, the invention of home movies” December 5 and 6, 2022 – Paris

Do not miss the upcoming 9.5mm conference organized by Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and Fondation…

Exhibit Spotlight: Experimental Marriage: Women in Early Hollywood

Join Poster House Collections Manager Melissa Walker for a curatorial tour of the exhibition Experimental…

New Publications

Mario Slugan & Daniël Biltereyst (eds), New Perspectives on Early Cinema History: Concepts, Approaches, Audiences (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022)

In this book, editors Mario Slugan and Daniël Biltereyst present a theoretical reconceptualization of early cinema.…

André Gaudreault & Laurent Le Forestier, De l’assemblage au montage cinématographique. Instauration et standardisation d’une pratique (PUM, 2022)

Using a technically oriented approach, focusing as much on the tools and gestures as on the…

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Festival Review, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, 2022

By Rebecca Ora This is a big year for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. 2022 marks…

La 40ème édition des Giornate del cinema muto, Pordenone, 2-9 octobre 2021.

Par Coraline Refort Durant l’édition 2021, malgré des projections réduites à quatre rendez-vous quotidiens pour permettre la…

Racial Justice Statement

2020 Paris Conference

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Domitor is happy to circulate the CFP for the 2022 Domitor student essay award competition. The Domitor Student Essay Award is an annual competition designed to stimulate interest in the field of early cinema studies, to involve young scholars and archivists in the activities of our organization, and to reduce the gap between established and emerging generations of scholars and archivists of early cinema. It is crucial for the future of early cinema studies that young historians, theorists, and archivists present their work and enter into discussion with current scholars and scholarship.

The winner of the award will be announced by January 2023. The award consists of a monetary prize (US$500) and assistance in obtaining publication of the winning essay in a scholarly film history journal. Submissions for the 2022 award are due no later than November 18, 2022. The CFP and more information are available on Domitor's award page. Please help us share this opportunity with your students !

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Domitor est heureux de faire circuler l’appel à candidature pour le prix de l'essai étudiant Domitor 2022. Le Prix de l’essai étudiant Domitor est un concours annuel visant à stimuler la recherche sur le cinéma des premiers temps, de même qu’à inciter les jeunes chercheurs et archivistes à prendre part aux activités de notre association et ainsi réduire le fossé qui sépare les générations déjà établies des générations nouvelles. Il est primordial pour l’avenir de la recherche sur le cinéma des premiers temps que les jeunes historiens, théoriciens et archivistes présentent leurs travaux et entament un dialogue avec les spécialistes de la discipline.

Le lauréat sera annoncé en janvier 2023. Le prix consistera en une bourse de 500 USD et le soutien de Domitor avec la publication de l’essai gagnant dans une revue scientifique d’histoire du cinéma. La date limite du dépôt des candidatures a été fixée au 18 novembre 2022. L’appel à candidatures et plus d’informations sur le prix de l’essai étudiant Domitor peuvent être trouvées sur la page ‘Prix’ du site internet de Domitor. Merci de nous aider à faire circuler cette opportunité à vos étudiants ! ... See MoreSee Less

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Domitor, the international society for the study of early cinema, is an association for people with a scholarly interest in cinema from its beginnings to 1915.

September 19th, 1:15 am

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September 14th, 1:10 am

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The seventh edition of the Pirmoji Banga Film Festival, a film festival dedicated to early cinema in Lithuania will be held from September 15 to 18 in Vilnius. All information and the full program's festival can be found on their website and on the facebook event's page.

https://facebook.com/events/1245850709287669/…

Alongside the film festival, a two-day virtual conference will be streamed lived on facebook, and we encourage everyone in the Domitor community to attend. The conference will be held in English. All the times in the program below are in EEST (CEST + 1h):

𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌:
𝟎𝟗.𝟏𝟔 - 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲
12:00 Greeting Word from Aleksas Gilaitis (Pirmoji Banga Film Festival)
12:15 A Deep Dive into the Film Archive (Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, Curator Silent Film at EYE Filmmuseum Netherlands)
12:40 Programming silent films: finding a middle path between rigid recreation and disruptive novelty (Jay Weisberg, Director of Pordenone Silent Film Festival)
13:05 Benshi. Narrator for Silent Films (Ichiro Kataoka, benshi)
13:30 The Trouble with Old Movies (Pamela Hutchinson, Silent Film Critic, silentlondon.co.uk)
14:00 Q&A roundtable

𝟎𝟗.𝟏𝟕 - 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲
12:00 Conversation with the granddaughter of Ladislas Starewitch
13:00 What did we find in Šiauliai photography museum? A story of a lost film (Vilija Ulinskytė-Balzienė, Šiauliai photography museum/Aleksas Gilaitis, Pirmoji banga/ Peter Bagrov, George Eastman Museum)
Followed by a Q&A roundtable

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September 6th, 2:05 am

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SAVE THE DATE !

On Thursday, Sep. 29, 12-1 New York time / 1800-1900 Paris time come celebrate the publication of two books about Méliès by the University of Michigan Press written by Matthew Solomon and Madeleine Malthête Méliès. This event will include the screening of a newly digitized Méliès film not widely seen in 120 years. All are invited but pre-registration is recommended! More information on the attached flyer and on the Domitor website.

https://domitor.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Solomon-Book-Launch-Flyer_final.pdf

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SAVE THE DATE !

On Thursday, Sep. 29, 12-1 New York time / 1800-1900 Paris time come celebrate the publication of two books about Méliès by the University of Michigan Press written by Matthew Solomon and Madeleine Malthête Méliès. This event will include the screening of a newly digitized Méliès film not widely seen in 120 years. All are invited but pre-registration is recommended! More information on the attached flyer and on the Domitor website.

https://domitor.org/wp-content/uploads/…

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September 5th, 1:26 am

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Fabulous to see the 2022 Domitor Conference and Film Program around Copy/Rights and Early Cinema generously cited in Cineaste's recent review of Women & the Silent Screen XI! ... See MoreSee Less

Women and the Silent Screen XI Conference — Cineaste Magazine

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More than one hundred years ago, the filmmaking capital of the United States shifted from the metro New York area to California and what would become Hollywood. For the first week of June, NYC was aga...

August 25th, 9:45 pm

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Rob Byrne, our dear colleague from the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, has alerted us about the reconfiguration plans currently threatening the Castro Theater, the very home of the SFSFF and an important San Francisco landmark. We are sharing his call for help with you today, in the hope that you will be able to sign the petition, join their listserv, and help spread the word.

We published his call on the Domitor website:

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Save the Castro Theatre

www.savethecastrotheatre.org

The Castro Theatre Conservancy stands for maintaining the landmark Castro Theatre as San Francisco’s preeminent movie palace and iconic LGBTQ+ resource.

June 23rd, 2:03 am

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Join us for the last two panels of Domitor 2022 ! Martin Johnson will then close the conference.

Sunday, June 12

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM (EDT – NY) / 16:00 – 17:30 (CEDT – Paris)
Panel 9: Compensation, Privacy, and Rights to the Image

11:45 PM – 1:15 PM (EDT – NY) / 17:45 – 19:15 (CEDT – Paris)
Panel 10: Infamy and Defamation

1:15 PM – 1:30 PM (EDT – NY) / 19:15 – 19:30 (CEDT – Paris)
Closing Remarks and Farewell

Full details of the program here: https://domitor.org/conference/2022-culpeper-conference/

You can still view the two films programs on Kennington Bioscope until June 26 and on Henri until July 6 (respectively)

HENRI : https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/153664-copyright-comedies-and-more-auteurs-divers-1894-1940/

KENNINGTON BIOSCOPE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvE4dg2lT5U&t=2797s

Image: The dolls revenge (Hepworth, UK, 1907) -- available to watch on HENRI !

Join us for the last two panels of Domitor 2022 ! Martin Johnson will then close the conference.

Sunday, June 12

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM (EDT – NY) / 16:00 – 17:30 (CEDT – Paris)
Panel 9: Compensation, Privacy, and Rights to the Image

11:45 PM – 1:15 PM (EDT – NY) / 17:45 – 19:15 (CEDT – Paris)
Panel 10: Infamy and Defamation

1:15 PM – 1:30 PM (EDT – NY) / 19:15 – 19:30 (CEDT – Paris)
Closing Remarks and Farewell

Full details of the program here: https://domitor.org/conference/…

You can still view the two films programs on Kennington Bioscope until June 26 and on Henri until July 6 (respectively)

HENRI : https://cinematheque.fr/henri/film/…

KENNINGTON BIOSCOPE: https://youtube.com/watch/…

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June 12th, 7:38 am

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Are you ready for Day 3? Please join us for two panels about international distribution and duplicitous marketing ! Then stay for the Domitor General Assembly and a virtual coffee/cocktail hour !

Saturday, June 11

10:00 AM – 11:45 AM (EDT -NY) / 16:00 – 17:45 (CEDT – Paris)
Panel 7: International Distribution

12 – 1 PM (EDT – NY) / 18:00 – 19:00 (CEDT – Paris)
Panel 8: Duplicitous Marketing and Copyright Declarations

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (EDT – NY) / 19:00 – 20:00 (CEDT – Paris)
General Assembly and virtual cocktail

Full conference program here:
https://domitor.org/conference/2022-culpeper-conference/

Image: Daisy Doodads Dial (Turner Films, UK, 1914) - This film is part of the You Dont Own Me: Copy/Rights and Cinema’s First Nasty Women program hosted by Kennington Bioscope. It is tremendous and streaming until June 26 - do not miss it !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvE4dg2lT5U

Are you ready for Day 3? Please join us for two panels about international distribution and duplicitous marketing ! Then stay for the Domitor General Assembly and a virtual coffee/cocktail hour !

Saturday, June 11

10:00 AM – 11:45 AM (EDT -NY) / 16:00 – 17:45 (CEDT – Paris)
Panel 7: International Distribution

12 – 1 PM (EDT – NY) / 18:00 – 19:00 (CEDT – Paris)
Panel 8: Duplicitous Marketing and Copyright Declarations

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (EDT – NY) / 19:00 – 20:00 (CEDT – Paris)
General Assembly and virtual cocktail

Full conference program here:
https://domitor.org/conference/…

Image: Daisy Doodad's Dial (Turner Films, UK, 1914) - This film is part of the "You Don't Own Me": Copy/Rights and Cinema’s First Nasty Women program hosted by Kennington Bioscope. It is tremendous and streaming until June 26 - do not miss it !
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June 11th, 6:45 am

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Thank you to all participants and attendees yesterday - what a fabulous line up of panels to open the conference - after a beautiful introduction by Domitor president Tami Williams and Vice president and conference organizer Martin Johnson !

Come back today for PART II:

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM (EDT – NY) / 16:00 – 17:30 (CEDT – Paris)
Panel 4: Rights-Copies-Rights: Post-Colonial Case Studies in Early Cinema

11:45 AM – 1:15 PM (EDT – NY) / 17:45 – 19:15 (CEDT – Paris)
Panel 5: Privation and Piracy

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM (EDT – NY) / 19:30 – 21:00 (CEDT – Paris)
Panel 6: Censorship and Regulation

Full program here: https://domitor.org/conference/2022-culpeper-conference/#2022-conference-program

And you can still register - for free - at this link:
https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ab3sW96MQ2OqhXVhn0k6Yw

Image from: Pruning the movies (Nestor, USA, 1914) -- film available for a whole month on HENRI : https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/153664-copyright-comedies-and-more-auteurs-divers-1894-1940/

Thank you to all participants and attendees yesterday - what a fabulous line up of panels to open the conference - after a beautiful introduction by Domitor president Tami Williams and Vice president and conference organizer Martin Johnson !

Come back today for PART II:

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM (EDT – NY) / 16:00 – 17:30 (CEDT – Paris)
Panel 4: Rights-Copies-Rights: Post-Colonial Case Studies in Early Cinema

11:45 AM – 1:15 PM (EDT – NY) / 17:45 – 19:15 (CEDT – Paris)
Panel 5: Privation and Piracy

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM (EDT – NY) / 19:30 – 21:00 (CEDT – Paris)
Panel 6: Censorship and Regulation

Full program here: https://domitor.org/conference/…

And you can still register - for free - at this link:
https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/…

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June 10th, 5:19 am

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Domitor 2022 Conference: Copy/Rights and Early Cinema kicks off today !

Last minute registration is possible here: https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/…

Join us for the Intro and Panels 1 - 3 !

Thursday, June 9

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM (EDT – NY) / 16:00 – 16:15 (CEDT – Paris)
Welcome and Introduction

10:15 AM – 11:45 AM (EDT – NY) / 16:15 – 17:45 (CEDT – Paris)
Panel 1: Early Copyright in an International Context

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (EDT – NY) / 18:00 – 19:00 (CEDT – Paris)
Panel 2: Preservation and Identification

1:15 PM – 3:00 PM (EDT – NY) / 19:15 – 21:00 (CEDT – Paris)
Panel 3: Pre-cinematic/Intermedial Copyright

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June 9th, 3:54 am

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