Les Parisiennes
(American Mutoscope Company, US, 1897)
DCP, 1’, color (handpainted), restored from the 68mm original print
Four female dancers performing cancan.
Fr, Apr 20 | 7.30pm | Kino Iluzjon
music: Albert Karch
Danse des Ouled-Naïls, Danse du ventre, Danses Algeriennes
(Pathé Frères, France, 1902)
DCP, 6’, color (handpainted) and black and white
Two different belly dance scenes.
Fr, Apr 20 | 7.30pm | Kino Iluzjon
music: Albert Karch
Danses cosmopolites
(Pathé Frères, France, 1907)
Dir.: Segundo de Chomón
DCP, 7’; stencil color.
Trick film where different dances are executed in folkloric costumes one after the other by the same couple.
Fr, Apr 20 | 7.30pm | Kino Iluzjon
music: Albert Karch
On with the dance [Dansen]
(Castle Films, US, 1926)
DCP, 12’, color (unidentified technique)
A film review from 1926 describes this films as: “The various dances incorporated here offer grace and beauty, rhythm and vitality, all blending together in a harmonious whole. The different types of dancing range from Spain to Russia, Hawaii, Japan, our own America and others. The Russian gazotsky offers vivid contrast to the charming swing of the geisha girls of Japan. All the high-strung, fast moving life of our own country is represented in the latest dance craze…”
Sat, Apr 21 | 2pm | Kino Iluzjon
music: Jędrzej Łagodziński
Kri Kri e il tango
(Cines, Italy, 1913)
DCP, 5’, color (tinted)
Cast: Raymond Frau and Lea Giunchi
Kri Kri wants to learn tango, so he trains with a mannequin. Once he feels he is able enough he goes to a party and invites a girl to dance. While Kri Kri and the girl are dancing, her jealous fiancé trips them up: they lose control and start a completely crazy dance that runs over everything and everyone.
Sun, Apr 22 | 2pm | Kino Iluzjon
music: Albert Karch
Rosalie et son phonographe
(Pathé Frères France, 1911)
Dir.: Roméo Bosetti, cast: Sarah Duhamel
DCP, 4’, color (tinted)
Rosalie orders a phonographe and gets completely absorbed by music. She brings her gramophone everywhere and infects everbody around her with her music.
Sun, Apr 22 | 8pm | Kino Iluzjon
music: Jędrzej Łagodziński
School of Fine Arts in Warsaw
(The Experimental Studio Film Society, newsreel 79/1, Poland, 1930)
DCP, 2’, black and white.
Classes at the School of Fine Arts: students at the painting studio and ballet performance.
Sat, Apr 21 | 5pm | Kino Iluzjon
music: Bye Bye Butterfly
Création de la serpentine
(Pathé Frères, France, 1908),
Dir.: Segundo de Chomón
DCP , 2’, black and white
Trick film where a musician and dance master receives a visit by the devil who conjures a group of serpentine dancers from the flames. The print kept at the EYE Filmmuseum is shorter than the original.
Sun, Apr 22 | 8pm | Kino Iluzjon
music: Jędrzej Łagodziński