CINEMA THROUGH MEDIA: 1920S

Bay area moviegoers have learned to talk about their love for silent movies. Not only MovieMaker magazine, issue has been recently include the San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF) as one of 20 "coolest" of 2010 - film festivals and not only San Franciscan experience just antics comic Chaplin, the money of Marcel the Herbarium, (1928) and La Boheme in King Vidor (1926), during winter event of SFSFF - but now the Museum of Art of Berkeley and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) proudly partner with the Department of cinema and media for a Conference on the silent cinema through the media of UC Berkeley: the 1920s, which will be held from 24 to 26 February. As indicated on the site Web BAM/PFA: "basically, Conference will examine institutional consolidation of the cinema in the 1920s, when practitioners were recruited from many other areas such as architecture, design, painting, music and vaudeville, which resulted in a transformation of the established media." Avant-garde cinema halls borrowed much to a variety of artistic practices, while the "cinematic" become the new standard for other modernist aesthetics and popular culture. AFP welcomes scholars Anne Nesbet, Gertrud Koch, Paolo Cherchi Usai thus film and talented Judith Rosenberg at the piano for these special presentations of the height of the silent cinema films. ?

The full schedule of two and a half days occur on the official site of the Conference, notes: "today's multimedia environment brings cinema of the 1920s in the new home as site rich intermedial traffic, especially if the term"media"includes not only recording technologies, mass media such as photography, phonography, radio and the illustrated press, but also the physical materials used for aesthetic expression, such as paint, printing, plaster, Pierre, voice and body."

"Cinema through media: the 1920s is a two and a half days Conference which will include five plenary, two plenary roundtables, eight simultaneous panels and a series a week screenings of silent movie with live musical accompaniment to the Pacific Film Archive." The aim of the Conference is to gather scientists, archivists, and students from various fields in order to assess the cinema of the 1920s as a dynamic center of adjacent media practices. The Conference will feature an international group of researchers from various disciplines including music, architecture, literature, history, theatre, dance and performance art, as well as film archivists, conservative and researchers of archives, museums and institutes worldwide. ?

I am particularly pleased to hear the closing speech by Thomas Elsaesser on "cinema through media: expanding the cutting-edge beyond policy Divide" and plenary round table where ensuing Elsaesser is joined by Tom Gunning, Gertrud Koch, Paolo Cherchi Usai, and Anthony Vidler. I look forward to presentations by Luciana Correa de Araujo film prologues in Rio de Janeiro (1926-27). Laura Isabel Serna on ethnography, costumbrismo and the production of Mexican film characteristic; and David Wood's performance in Mexican cinema of the 1920s.

With the exception of the projections of films, which are subject to AFP, regular admission rates all events of the Conference (plenary, tables roundtables and panels) are free and open to the public. However, for Conference pre-registration is strongly recommended.

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