Âmes de fous
A few scenes and photos is all that remains of the film Âmes de fou. What might it have been? This performance reconstruction offers one splendid vision.
24'
France
IFFR 2019
An early Stan Laurel comedy made with materials from two other films. One is Gilbert 'Broncho Billy' Anderson & Gil Pratt’s The Pest (1922), the other Laurel’s screen debut, Robin Williamson’s Nuts in May (1917), of which only the materials used here survive. A true treat in many ways.
IFFR 2019
- 19'
- USA
- 1934
- Director
- James Parrott
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1934
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 19'
- Medium
- File
- Language
- silent
- Producer
- Samuel Bischoff
- Production Company
- Samuel Bischoff Productions
- Sales
- Beta Cinema
- Cinematography
- Francis Corby
- Editor
- William Terhune
- Sound Design
- Warren B. Delaplain
- Music
- Leroy Shield
- Cast
- Douglas Wakefield, Billy Nelson, Jack Barty, Don Barclay, Thelma Hill
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A cinematographically minimalist prose poem crafted using nothing but the titles of movies that are lost. A reverie supreme.
8'
Japan
IFFR 2019
Die gekreuzigt werden
The remnants of a propaganda film against anti-Semitism. We know the story well enough to fill in the gaps.
28'
Austria
IFFR 2019
- Director
- James Parrott
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1934
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 19'
- Medium
- File
- Language
- silent
- Producer
- Samuel Bischoff
- Production Company
- Samuel Bischoff Productions
- Sales
- Beta Cinema
- Cinematography
- Francis Corby
- Editor
- William Terhune
- Sound Design
- Warren B. Delaplain
- Music
- Leroy Shield
- Cast
- Douglas Wakefield, Billy Nelson, Jack Barty, Don Barclay, Thelma Hill
Programme IFFR 2019
Laboratory of Unseen Beauty
Total cinema: from historical treasures to the edge of the technically possible – film as a laboratory of constant re-invention, an archive of dreams and futures.
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A few scenes and photos is all that remains of the film Âmes de fou. What might it have been? This performance reconstruction offers one splendid vision.
24'
France
IFFR 2019
Apple in the River
When the termination of the film Maritime Climates created a quota problem for Rīgas Kinostudijā, a shelved documentary instead became the loveliest of teenage romances!
76'
Latvia
IFFR 2019
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.
8'
Japan
IFFR 2019