As the festival seems to expand continuously, the first screening actually takes place even before the festival begins: on Thursday 22nd, Donald Sosin accompanies Menschen am Sonntag on the Piazza Maggiore. The film is restored by Eye back in 1998, at the Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, curated by Martin Koerber. The festival is showing the digitally remastered DCP version by the Deutsche Kinemathek, as part of the Sunday in Bologna programme curated by Neil McGlone and Alexander Payne.
During the festival, four films from 1917 are being screened in the Hundred Years Ago: 1917 programme, curated by Karl Wratchko.
On Thursday 27th, as part of the Cinema Anno 2; 1897 program, 16 Mutoscope&Biograph films from our collection are included. These films are screened from the 35mm duplication prints, that were made from the 68mm originals.
There are other Eye films or Eye-related presentations to discover throughout the festival. Among those is the new Cineteca di Bologna restoration of the film La Tragica fine di Caligula Imperator (IT, Ugo Falena, 1917) for which Eye has lent its nitrate print that served as a reference for the re-insertion of the intertitles. Around this film, two events take place: a workshop launching the new research project “Il cinema muto italiano e le altre arti” on Sunday, and also a round table discussion on Monday morning.
Another production where Eye has a strong presence is this year’s DVD I colori Ritrovati, containing 36 colored non-fiction films from the 1910s, particularly dedicated to Kinemacolor, Pathecolor and Chronochrome. On this double DVD, seven films are from the Eye collection, including the Kinemacolor film Coronation Drill At Reedham Orphanage (GB, 1911), which is also part of the Kinemacolor screening on Tuesday.
Eye is also the co-producer of the film Rêve au Tuschinski by Jérôme Diamant-Berger (FR, 2017), featuring Max von Sydow. This film, about the historical Amsterdam film theatre Tuschinski and its owner, will premiere on Friday within the section Documents and Documentaries.
Eye will be represented by several staff members this year: our director Sandra den Hamer, vault manager Catherine Cormon, silent film curator Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, programmer Leo van Hee and curatorial assistant Gerdien Smit will be in Bologna, along with many past and present student interns
Eye Filmmuseum at the Cinema Ritrovato 2017
The greatest archival festival of the world is about to begin again in Bologna, from June 24th on! Eye is presenting films under different sections of the festival this year.
By Elif Rongen21 June 2017
Here is the full list of the compilation programs and the DVD, mentioned above:
1897: year two of cinematography
Changing guard (Berlin), Albany day boats, Keystone express, Battleships 'Maine' & 'Iowa', A Pillow fight, Fort Hill fire station, Place de la Concorde, Harvesting corn, Threshing machine at work, The Haverstraw tunnel, The Crookedest railroad yard in the world, The Military review at Aldershot, Passage des portiques, Jumbo, horseless fire-engine, A Camp of Zingari gypsies, Les Parisiennes.
1917: hundred years ago
Das Bacchanal des Todes oder das Opfer einer grossen Liebe (DE, Richard Eichberg, 1917, Central Film Vertrieb), Holland in ijs - 1917 (NL, Willy Mullens, 1917, Alberts Frères), De Petroleumbrand te Vlissingen (NL, 1917, Kinematograaf Pathé Frères), Kanalen en windmolens (NL, 1917, Kinematograaf Pathé Frères [?]).
I colori Ritrovati DVD
Barcelone, principale ville de la Catalogne (FR, Segundo de Chomón, 1912, Pathé Frères), Parc national de Yellowstone, Le (FR,1917, Pathé Frères), Culture de caoutchouc en Malaisie, La (FR, 1912, Pathé Frères), Récolte du riz au Japon, La (FR, 1910, Pathé Frères), Grande fête hindoue du Massy-Magum, La (FR, 1913, Pathé Frères), Chenille de carotte, La (FR, 1911, Pathé Frères), Coronation Drill At Reedham Orphanage (GB, 1911, Urban Trading).