A listing of conferences, festivals, events and some major screenings, with links to posts about these on The Bioscope.
2010
28-30 October – Charlie in the Heartland: An International Charlie Chaplin conference, Zanesville, Ohio, USA
13-17 June – DOMITOR conference, Toronto, Canada
2009
3-10 October – Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone, Italy
4-5 Sep – The Art of Programming Early Cinema workshop, Cinémathèque, Luxembourg
21 Aug-9 Sep – Crazy Cinématographe, Schueberfouer, Luxembourg
21-24 July – Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects conference, Lancaster, UK
10-12 July – San Francisco Silent Film Festival, USA
10-12 July – Colour and the Moving Image conference, Bristol, UK
8-11 July – Social Fears and Moral Panics, Iamhist conference, Aberystwyth
3-5 July – Visual Empires conference, Leeds/Sheffield, UK
7-9 June – The Sounds of Early Cinema in Britain conference, London, UK
4-6 June – British Silent Film Festival, London, UK
27-31 May – Festival d’Anères, France
27-29 May – Popular Italian cinema, London, UK
16-18 April – Instruction, Amusement and Spectacle conference, Exeter, UK
27-29 March – Edinburgh International Film Audiences Conference, Edinburgh, UK
19-22 March – Cinefest, Syracuse, NY, USA
13-15 March – Killruddery Silent Film Festival, Bray, Ireland
27-28 February – Kansas Silent Film Festival, Topeka, Kansas, USA
5-6 February – Oscar Micheaux conference, Columbia University, USA
28 January – The Ancient World in Silent Cinema screenings and talks, London, UK
24 January – StummFilmMusikTage, Erlangen, Germany
22-25 January – Slapstick Silent Comedy Festival, Bristol, UK
15-16 January – James Joyce and the Cinema conference, Trieste, Italy
5-9 January – The Bioscope Festival of Lost Films
2008
14-16 November – Wiveliscombe Festival of Silent Cinema
1-2 November – Modernism and Visual Culture conference, Oxford
24-25 October – Shasta County Arts Council silent film festival, Redding CA
4-11 October – Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone
3-4 October – 14th Annual International Buster Keaton Society Convention, Muskegon, Michigan
26-28 September – Best of the British Silent Film Festival, London
26-27 September – Annual Buster Keaton Celebration, Iola, Kansas
25-28 September – Cinesation festival
5-12 September – Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF)
5-6 September – Silent Film Festival, Opitiki, New Zealand
3-7 September – Silent Film Days in Tromsø, Norway
29-30 August – Forssa Silent Film Festival, Finland
28 August-1 September – Cinecon, Hollywood
26 August-8 September – 2nd International Silent Film Festival, Manila
22 August-10 September – Crazy Cinématographe, Schueberfouer, Luxembourg
14-24 August – Bonner Sommerkino festival, Bonn, Germany
10-17 August – Strade del Cinema festival, Aosta, Italy
8-16 August – Paul Merton’s Silent Clowns, Edinburgh fringe festival
8-10 August – Capitolfest, Rome, New York
25-26 July – Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium
17-20 July – Slapsticon, Arlington VA
14-15 July – Re-envisioning the Child in Italian Film conference, Exeter
11-13 July – San Francisco Silent Film Festival
28 June-5 July – Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna
27-29 June – 11th Annual Broncho Billy Silent Film Festival
17-21 June – Domitor conference, Peripheral Early Cinemas, Perpignan and Girona
11-13 June – The Fifth International Women and the Silent Screen conference, Stockholm
5-6 June – ‘Funny People these Foreigners’ conference, Salford
7-11 May – Festival d’Anères, Hautes-Pyrénées
3-6 April – 11th British Silent Cinema Festival, Nottingham
26-28 March – City in Film conference, Liverpool
13-16 March – Cinefest, Syracuse
6-14 March – Bird’s Eye View festival, London
5-13 March – Bird’s Eye View Festival, London
22-23 February – Kansas Silent Film Festival
9 February – Border Crossings: Rethinking Early Cinema conference, Berkeley
24-27 January – StummFilmMusikTage festival, Erlangen
18 January – deadline for Projection Box early cinema essay award entries
17-20 January – Slapstick 2008 silent comedy festival, Bristol
14-18 January – The Bioscope Festival of Lost Films
2007
14-16 December – The Glow in Their Eyes conference on film exhibition and cinema-going, Ghent
14-16 December – Not Only Divas conference, Bologna
7-9 December – The Smoking Cabinet, Festival of Early Cabaret and Burlesque Cinema, London
10 November-9 December – Paul Merton’s Silent Clowns tour
25-28 October – Fflics festival, Aberystwyth
26-27 October – Shasta Arts Council 2nd annual silent film festival
25-27 October – Victorians in Motion conference, Boulder, Colorado
19 October – Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee show at Canterbury Festival
11 October – Debut screening of Man with a Movie Camera remake by Perry Bard, Manchester
7 October – Robin Hood screening at Royal Centre, Nottingham
6-13 October – Giornate del Cinema Muto (Pordenone silent film festival)
5-6 October – International Buster Keaton Society convention, Muskegon
28-29 September – Annual Buster Keaton Celebration, Iola, Kansas
27-30 September- Cinesation festival, Massilon, Ohio
15 September – screening of Pandora’s Box with new score in Bristol
8-18 September – Cinema by Citizens competition, Toronto Urban Film Festival
7-10 September – Slapstick Blog-a-Thon
6-8 September- Crazy Cinématographe – Travelling Cinema in Europe conference, Luxembourg
6-9 September – Silent days in Tromsø festival
5-8 September – Lillian Gish Film Festival, Springfield, Ohio
4-13 September – International Silent Film Festival, Manila
31 August-1 September – Forssa International Film Festival, Finland
30 August-3 September – Cinecon, Hollywood
30 August – A Throw of Dice screening at Trafalagar Square, London
15-18 August – Chaplin Mutuals with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Cadogan Hall, London
9-19 August – Bonner Sommerkino international silent film festival, Germany
6-15 August – Strade del Cinema festival of music and silent film, Aosta, Italy
25 July – Christie’s camera sale, London
21-22 July – Origins of Asian Cinema conference, New Delhi
20-21 July – North East Historic Film Summer Symposium, Maine
19-22 July – Slapsticon festival, Arlington, Virginia, USA
18-21 July – Iamhist conference, Media and Imperialism, Amsterdam
13-15 July – San Francisco Silent Film Festival
6-7 July – Mind, Bodies, Machines conference, London
30 June-7 July – Il Cinema Ritrovato festival, Bologna
29 June-1 July – Broncho Billy Silent Film Festival, Fremont, California
29 June – The Ground Beneath Her Feet performance, Manchester
23-24 June – West End Live event, London
5-30 June – Moving Pictures in Westminster exhibition, London
1 June-30 October – Chapliniana exhibition, Bologna
25 May-23 September – Dawn of Colour exhibition, Bradford
24 May-1 June – Nineteen (Obscure) Frames that Changed the World exhibition, Bradford
23 May-27 August – Sentiment and Sensation exhibition, New York
26-29 April – British Silent Cinema Festival, Nottingham
21 April-6 May – William S. Hart film season, New York
20 April-23 June – Picasso, Braque and Early Film in Cubism exhibition, New York
11-15 April – Filmmuseum Biennial, Amsterdam
30 March-1 April – Australia’s Silent Film Festival, Sydney
24 March-1 April – Kyoto Silent Film Festival
24-25 March – Cinematicity conference, Colchester
8-14 March – Bird’s Eye View film festival, London
23-24 February – Kansas Silent Film Festival
17 February-20 May – Moving Pictures exhibition on art and early film, Washington DC
April 14, 2009 at 1:06 pm
I have just completed a new score for Paul Wegener’s 1920 film of ‘Der Golem’(the ‘origin’ film set in 1580) It was well received at Eastercon LX, the SF & F convention in Bradford, but I would be interested in an opportunity for a further public outing for this. so would be grateful for any suggestions.
Martin
June 29, 2009 at 7:54 am
Hi Luke, how about the possibility of turning your Calendar page into a comprehensive listing of ALL UK silent screenings & related events… or even of establishing a completely separate page for them?
Although I try to keep a constant look out for screenings I’d like to attend, I often frustratingly find out about them after they’ve happened – or, I guess, I don’t hear about them at all!
Unless you know of somewhere I’ve missed, there doesn’t appear to be a near-definitive, constantly updated central listing point for UK-only silent events.
Such a page/site would also make delving into the real-life world of silent film a lot easier for interested novices, who don’t have the knowledge or time to go trawling through all the multifarious sources available to find that one-off screening…
I reckon your site would be as good a place as any… nay, make that the BEST place!
You could openly invite submissions for inclusion; I’d obviously happily be a regular contributor, for starters.
What do you think?
June 29, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Hi Brent,
I have thought about providing a silent screenings service, but I have a day job and there just isn’t the time to do it properly. Moreover, there is the Nitrateville silent screenings service which does include some UK screenings. My policy is not to duplicate services which are provided elsewhere – for the same reason I don’t provide a silent films on DVD section, as there are good sites that do that already. So I would encourage UK readers to join Nitrateville and to add screenings information when they find it.
But thank you for your kind words about The Bioscope.