Screenings Schedule 2021

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2
Online Premiere Screening: 2:30pm EST / 7:30pm GMT
Kennington Bioscope: Solax, The House Built by Alice Guy Blaché
Available to view FREE on the Kennington Bioscope YouTube channel through June 30, 2021.
Nine shorts (1911–13) produced & directed by Alice Guy Blaché. For details, read more.

FRIDAY, JUNE 4
9:00am–11:00am EST
Part of Program II—Panel # 1: The Art of Recycling: Early Soviet Compilation Film
Includes Screening: Manifest / Manifesto (Lidia Stepanova, USSR, 1927). RT: 45 min.

Online Screening & Discussion: 3:00pm–4:00pm EST
Lights! Camera! Alice! A Conversation with Manohla Dargis (New York Times) & Ariel Schweitzer (Cahiers du cinéma). With newly released extracts from Alice Guy, Pioneer of the 7th Art, Forgotten by History (Nathalie Masduraud & Valérie Urrea, France, 2021).
English translation for ARTE documentary (PLEASE DO NOT CITE OR CIRCULATE – FOR WSS USE ONLY)
Coordinators/Moderators: Kim Tomadjoglou & Tami Williams [Program III]
Introduction: Tami Williams

Online Screening: 7:00pm–9:30pm EST
Segodnya / Today (Cannons or Tractors?) (Esfir Shub, USSR, 1930). RT: 75 min.
Introduction: Anastasia Kostina [Program II]
The Curse of Quon Gwon: When the Far East Mingles with the West (Marion E. Wong, US, 1916). RT: 50 min.
Virtual viewing for The Curse of Quon Gwon (PLEASE DO NOT CITE OR CIRCULATE – FOR WSS USE ONLY) 
Introduction: Cordelia Siporin [Program I]
A Comedy of Errors (Alice Guy Blaché, US, 1912). RT: 14 min.
Introduction: Kim Tomadjoglou and Tami Williams, with commentary by composer AJ Layague [Program III]

SUNDAY, JUNE 6
12:00pm–2:00pm EST
Part of Program II—Panel # 2: Women in Silent Soviet Documentary
Includes Screening:
Tungusy / Tungus (Elizaveta Svilova, USSR, 1927). RT: 12 min.
Bukhara (Elizaveta Svilova, USSR, 1927). RT: 11 min.
Pioneria / Pioneers (Arsha Ovanesova & E. Borisovich, USSR, 1931). RT: 11 min.