Give me back my colour

'All the Hues of Nature: Colour Film and Restoration'
Screening 6-8pm, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK,Friday 10th July 2009
Discussion Panel 5.30-6.30pm, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, Saturday 11th July
2009.

'All the Hues of Nature' is a unique event designed to showcase colour
films from the first 50 years of cinema restored by the British Film
Institute National Archive and the Filmmuseum, nl.
The programme includes MAKING FASHION (GB Humphrey Jennings, 1938) a
celebration of English fashion design, dealing with the development of
Norman Hartnell's spring collection; L'INFERNO (Italy, Helios Film,
Velletri, Dir Giuseppe Berardi, 1911) the long thought lost (discovered in
the Vatican film library) 'other' version of Dante's Inferno made in 1911,
to cash in on the box-office success of an earlier version of 1909; and
PREKRASNAYA LYUKANIDA (Russian Empire, Dir. Ladislas STAREVITCH, 1912)
('Beautiful Leukanida' or 'Beetles') one of Ladislas Starevitch's
stop-frame animations of model beetles crafted from fragments of deer-skin,
wire and wood and manipulated into the passions and (im)moralities of human
impulses.

The films will be introduced by invited speakers including Bryony Dixon
(BFI), Tom Vincent (Aardman Animation) and Giovanna Fossati (Filmmuseum,
nl.) and will be accompanied by live music composed by Jean Hasse.

Tickets for the screening include access to a panel discussion on colour
and film restoration 5.30-6.30, Arnolfini, Saturday 11th July 2009.
The discussion will be chaired by Professor Tom Gunning (University of
Chicago). Panel participants include Sonia Genaitay (British Film
Institute), Giovanna Fossati (Filmmuseum, nl.), Daniela Currò (Haghe Film
Conservation B.V., Netherlands) and Josh Yumibe (Oakland University).

Tickets are available from the Arnolfini Box Office
Tel: 0117 917 2300/01
£6.00 (full price) £4.50 (concession)

Further details can be found here:


The screening and discussion panel are sponsored by Screen Journal as one
of its 50th Anniversary events and hosted by the Colour and the Moving
Image conference.