Pordenone Silent Film Festival

[Bodo Schönfelder]

Dear list members,

being a regular guest and visitor in Pordenone or to be more precise 
Sacile, a very small town which hosts the festival named Le Giornate 
Del Cinema Muto I think I can add some informations and correct some 
impressions. It is a rather small festival. Who knows Far East in 
Udine has a cpmparable experience. Visitors are mostly film historians 
archive people, students, journalists and addicts to silent films.
Very many visitors from the US. A real problem is the facilities 
for loding visitors and in some way getting meals in Sacile. The 
final list of Japanese films which was posted, will probably smaller.
There are other subjects too. Curation is not loose and it is not 
as many films as possible and you have to decide. It is the search 
for systematic programming which makes the big programme. For some 
years now every year there is the programme of one years production 
output of D.W. Griffith, this year it will be 1911. Everybody has 
to choose what is important and what he can manage, sleeping and 
food included. For real lovers it is like Christmas in October.

Bodo Schoenfelder



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