Cinema’s First Nasty Women is a 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray set featuring 100 feminist silent films that will be released by Kino Lorber in 2022. For more information, visit their webpage and facebook page. Stay tuned !! Video Editor: Stephanie Brown Original Music: Dana Reason Project Curators: Laura Horak,…
Kino Lorber issued earlier this year two new volumes of 2K and 4K restorations of Alice Guy Blaché’s films, extensively covering her career both in France and the United-States. Volume 2, in particular, features many films from the Solax years made available for the first…
On the eve of their 6-year anniversary, the Women Film Pioneers Project relaunched a reimagined and reinvigorated home for their digital resource as part of their continued commitment to the advancement of research on women filmmakers in the silent era. Here are the…
Invitation to attend the screening and study sessions SCREENING THE PAST (28-29 October 2019), made to Domitor members by the director of the Filmoteca de Catalunya, Esteve Riambau: Dear friends and colleagues, The Filmoteca de Catalunya is pleased to inform you of SCREENING THE PAST, films shot in…
The British Film Institute has created an online course looking in detail at the birth of cinema in late Victorian times 1895-1901. Their expert guides (Bryony Dixon, Mark Reid, Gemma Starkey) will make you: Investigate the late Victorian period in Britain. Unravel and discuss common myths about…
THE MUSICAL ORPHANAGE A two-parts programme of British “Silent” Films with their original synchronized music, curated by Tony Fletcher with John Sweeney at the Piano. I. Sound film before 1930 In this programme presented by Tony Fletcher, British films predating the widespread adoption of sound-on-film are exceptionnally presented…
“Documents de cinéma” : domitorian files online Message from our member Roland Cosandey (Roland.Cosandey@unil.ch): The editorial board of Documents de cinéma is happy to announce that the complete 1906 Charles Urban Trading Company Catalogue (200p.) is online, via the following link: We Put…
Marcel Proust has been identified in a 1904 film DOMITOR congratulates Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan, Domitor member, who in his article of the Revue d’études proustiennes argues that Marcel Proust has been captured on film while leaving the 1904 wedding of the daughter of the Countess…
DISCOVERY AT EYE A Munkászubbony (The Work Jacket, István Bródy, Hungary, 1915) DOMITOR congratulates the Dutch researchers at the Amsterdam-based EYE Film Institute who have discovered one of the oldest extant Hungarian films: A Munkászubbony (The Work Jacket), shown on January 12th, 1915. Lost for decades, The…
