Last week Kino Lorber launched a new Kickstarter aimed to fund their latest project “Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers,” a collection of important American films directed by women, including Alice Guy Blaché, Lois Weber, Nell Shipman, Dorothy Davenport, and many more, between 1910 and 1929.
The ambitious project will be presented in association with the Library of Congress and be the largest commercially-released video collection of films by female helmers. It will include HD restorations of both the most important films of the era, as well as lesser-known works, including short films, fragments and isolated chapters of incomplete serials.
“By showcasing the ambitious, inventive films from the golden age of women directors, we can get a sense of what was lost by the marginalization of women to ‘support roles’ within the film industry,” reads the Kickstarter page.
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The ambitious project will be presented in association with the Library of Congress and be the largest commercially-released video collection of films by female helmers. It will include HD restorations of both the most important films of the era, as well as lesser-known works, including short films, fragments and isolated chapters of incomplete serials.
“By showcasing the ambitious, inventive films from the golden age of women directors, we can get a sense of what was lost by the marginalization of women to ‘support roles’ within the film industry,” reads the Kickstarter page.
Read More: ‘The Eyeslicer,’ A New Variety Series By and For Indie Filmmakers, Launches Kickstarter Campaign...
- 10/25/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
To tackle most filmmakers’ filmographies is to commit to multiple discs worth of films. Whether or not Alice Guy’s filmography is a less daunting project to take on in a short span, most of her available films are at least neatly confined to a single disc released by Kino International as part of the Gaumont Treasures set. Literally the first lady of cinema, Guy directed around 350 films between 1896 and 1920 and the Gaumont set captures nearly four hours between over 60 short films from the first half of her career.
Coming on the scene as she did at the dawn of filmmaking, Guy’s early work is not greatly distinguished from her contemporaries in the sense that these early films, generally under 2-3 minutes, are trifles that mostly seem to say “look, we can capture moving pictures!”. One of her earliest films, The Fisherman at the Stream, is the most you...
Coming on the scene as she did at the dawn of filmmaking, Guy’s early work is not greatly distinguished from her contemporaries in the sense that these early films, generally under 2-3 minutes, are trifles that mostly seem to say “look, we can capture moving pictures!”. One of her earliest films, The Fisherman at the Stream, is the most you...
- 5/17/2012
- by Erik Bondurant
- SoundOnSight
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