A few scenes and photos found at the Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam) are all that remain of the six-part serial Âmes de fous. What might it have been? Emilie Cauquy and Clément Lafite of the Cinémathèque française offer a vision of this lost work through a spoken-word performance accompanied live by Inou Ki Endo.
Also in this combined programme
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The Better Way Back to the Soil
A cinematographically minimalist prose poem crafted using nothing but the titles of movies that are lost. A reverie supreme. -
Die gekreuzigt werden
The remnants of a propaganda film against anti-Semitism. We know the story well enough to fill in the gaps. -
Mixed Nuts
An early Stan Laurel comedy made using material from two other films – one of which is now considered lost. A true treat in many…
Film details
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 1918
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 24'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
