Film
Indigenous film, art and activism: counter-cartographies of the Amazon
This one-day symposium explores the relationship between film, art, and activism in the Amazon. Along with in-person discussions by international speakers, the programme includes a number of contemporary Amazonian films made by Indigenous creators who are using film to amplify their voices and contest historical marginalisation.
Silent Cinema and the Comedy of Birth: An Evening of Shorts (1896-1935)
Wed 11 March 2015
Robinson College
Where did babies come from, in the silent film era? This selection of short films (1896–1935) provides a humorous answer to the question. From the cabbage patches of France to the baronial mansions of Japan, the hydrotherapy spas of Italy to the stork factories of the United States, we witness the burglaries, infidelities and deceptions intrinsic to these 'slapstick pregnancies'.
Silent Cinema and the Comedy of Birth: An Evening of Shorts (1896-1935) is the sixth and final event in the series 'Reproduction on Film: Outlaws'.
Including The Over-Incubated Baby (W.R. Booth and Robert Paul, UK, 1901), Madame Has Her Cravings (Alice Guy-Blaché, France, 1906), Spontaneous Generation (Émile Cohl, France, 1909), Krazy Kat: The Stork Exchange (Harrison/Gould, USA, 1927), and Kid Commotion (Saito Torajiro, Japan, 1935).
Patrick Ellis will also present a paper to the Twentieth Century Think Tank on 'The "Aeroplane Gaze": Looking Up in 1909' the following day, Thursday 12 March, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, 1–2pm.
Cost: Free
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