Silent Cinema

Sun Aug 8 2010


An evening of Surrealist and Comic silent films

Silent Film Australia Ltd., presenter of Australia’s Silent Film Festival,

and the Red Rattler are proud to host a season of restored silent film

classics and live music to support Tradewinds and its not for profit

project in East Timor.

with

The Thieving Hand (1908) 6 mins

A surreal comic short of a down and out whose donated artificial arm has criminal tendencies!

The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (1928) 13 mins

Surreal story filmed in an expressionist manner.

The Mascot (1933), Ladislaw Starewicz, 26 mins

surreal short film by the Polish master of animation

I Don’t Want to be a Man (1918) 45 mins Directed by Ernst Lubitsch

One of the acclaimed Lubitsch’s early comedies of manners. A young woman

seeks liberation in a fable of sexual inequality.

with Mauro Colombis on Piano a classically trained musician who has developed his own

improvisatory and compositional style for silent cimena ..a must not miss event.

SUPPORT TRADEWINDS and EAST TIMOR PROJECT

Sunday August 8

Film screenings commence 6 pm Doors Open 530 pm

Tickets $15/$10 concession

Over 18s only event No presale doors sale tickets only