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Online with SFFP—Looking at the lost film with Iyesha Geeth Abbas

Join us for the first in a monthly series of online presentations on all things film! On Thursday, February 13 Iyesha Geeth Abbas of the National Film Archive of India will guide us through her presentation on lost film. Abbas has been engaged in research and access work at audio-visual archives since 2009. Previously, she […]

Silent Cinema: Restoration & Celebration at DIFF

The Complex 21-25 Arran St E, Smithfield, Dublin, Ireland

As part of our Dublin International Film Festival's expanded silent film programme, DIFF is hosting this discussion on silent cinema. From conservation to ongoing screenings to composing and playing live musical accompaniment, panelists will dissect the world of silent cinema and its place on our screens today. The panel will comprise of Serge Bromberg and […]

Online with SFFP—Staff Picks from the Prelinger Archives

Prelinger Archives is in the final year of a three-year grant for mass-digitization of its film collection funded by Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. Since the start of the project, Prelinger Archives staff have scanned over 3 million feet of film and uploaded over 2000 items, while collectively developing practices of inclusive and reparative […]

The Kid Reporter on 35mm at New York Public Library

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium 111 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, United States

The Silent Clowns Film Series is New York’s longest-running regularly scheduled silent film showcase. Our programming reaches the serious film buff by including rarely-screened titles and rare prints, yet it also introduces kids and new audiences to the classics of the silent screen. Screenings feature live piano accompaniment by MoMA’s Ben Model, with an introduction […]

The Dragon Painter on 35mm at Chicago Film Society

Music Box Theatre 3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago, Illinois

Live musical accompaniment by MIYUMI Project Japanese Experimental Ensemble Sessue Hayakawa was an unlikely star in early Hollywood, a Japanese actor who became a beloved matinee idol in an era of intense anti-Asian prejudice. Frequently typecast in roles that trafficked in exotic stereotypes (and not always Asian ones), Hayakawa eventually set up his own production company, Haworth […]

Online with SFFP—Maurice Tourneur: Franco-American Film Pioneer

In 1914, an unknown French director arrived in New York. Four years later, Maurice Tourneur was one of the most celebrated American filmmakers with D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille. From his beginnings as a painter, this presentation will endeavour to recapture the essence of an artist who helped to shape the feature film […]

The Dragon Painter on 35mm at Overture Center

Overture Center 201 State Street, Madison, WI, United States

Get swept away by the haunting beauty of “The Dragon Painter.” Starring the incredible Sessue Hayakawa, this film tells the tale of Tatsu, a passionate artist who loses himself in his art—literally! Believing his beloved princess has been captured by a dragon, Tatsu’s obsession blurs the lines between reality and fantasy. This is more than […]

The Dragon Painter on 35mm at Japan Society

Japan Society 333 East 47th Street, New York, CA, United States

On drum set and vibraphone, Shun Ishiwaka shows off his mastery in this film-screening “concert,” enlivening the silent movie The Dragon Painter, a quirky story of a brilliant, reclusive painter obsessed with the myth of a dragon princess. Starring Japanese matinée idol Sessue Hayakawa, the first actor of Asian descent to become a leading man in […]