The Colour Fantastic: Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema
29 to 31 March, 2015
EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
Twenty years on from the groundbreaking Amsterdam workshop ‘Disorderly Order’: Colours in Silent Film the conference will celebrate this milestone anniversary by providing a new forum to explore contemporary archival and academic debates around colour in the silent era. The conference will explore a diverse range of archival and academic topics and provide a stimulating environment for specialists from across different disciplines. It will also include screenings of restored and/or rarely seen films.
The event will be held at EYE(Amsterdam) on 29 to 31 March, 2015.
We welcome papers and in particular pre-formed panel proposals on the following themes: avant-garde and abstract colour; restoration and preservation; technologies; animation; intermediality; aesthetics and cultural contexts. We also welcome papers working with films from EYE’s Open Beelden website.
Proposals of 300 words for papers should be sent to: colourfantastic@eyefilm.nl no later than 1 September 2014.
The conference is co-organised by EYE, Giovanna Fossati (University of Amsterdam), Tom Gunning (University of Chicago) and the Leverhulme Trust research project ‘Colour in the 1920s: Cinema and Its Intermedial Contexts’, run by Sarah Street (University of Bristol) and Joshua Yumibe (University of St Andrews / Michigan State University).
In conjunction with the conference, a new book on silent film colour, Fantasia of Color by Gunning, Fossati and Yumibe will be published by the University of Amsterdam Press and presented at EYE.
Dr Vicky Jackson
Research Assistant
Colour in the 1920s: Cinema and Its Intermedial Contexts
Department of Film and Television
University of Bristol
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