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still from Les six soeurs Dainef (unknown, FR 1902)

still Les six soeurs Dainef (FR 1902)

Eye International Conference 2019

Sisters

25 — 29 May 2019

still from Jeanne Dielman 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, BE/FR 1975)
still from Jeanne Dielman 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, BE/FR 1975)

The Eye International Conference, held annually, explores contemporary archival and academic debates, catering to film heritage professionals, scholars, archivists, curators, and restorers. The conference includes panels and special screenings of (restored) films.

Women and the Silent Screen (WSS), an international conference held biennially, brings together research focusing on all forms of women’s presence in the earliest decades of motion picture history. After its first edition in Utrecht in 1999, the conference is coming back to the Netherlands to celebrate its twentieth year. The theme of WSS X is Sisters, taken both literally and figuratively within a wide range of theoretical and historical angles.

Still from Les Parisiennes (1897, director unknown).
Still from Les Parisiennes (1897, director unknown).
Still from Filibus (1915, Mario Roncoroni).
Still from Filibus (1915, Mario Roncoroni).
Still from Âmes de fous (1918, Germaine Dulac).
Still from Âmes de fous (1918, Germaine Dulac).

Programme Committee

Annette Förster (WFHI)
Giovanna Fossati (Eye/UvA)
Minette Hillyer (WFHI/Victoria University of Wellington)
Jennifer Horne (WFHI/University of California Santa Cruz)
Asli Ozgen-Tuncer (UvA)
Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi (Eye)
Gerdien Smit (Eye)
Eleni Tzialli (Eye)

still from Women of Ryazan (Olga Preobraienskaja & Ivan Pravov, SU 1927)

still Women of Ryazan (Olga Preobraienskaja & Ivan Pravov, SU 1927)

Steering Committee

Giovanna Fossati (President)
Gerdien Smit (Secretary)
Frank Roumen (Eye Collection Day)

Programme

Saturday 25th May: Meet the Archive

Sunday 26th May: Conference day 1

Monday 27th May: Conference day 2

Tuesday 28th May: Conference day 3

Wednesday 29th May: Activities at the Eye Collection Centre

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