Silent Dreams Shorts Programme

+ intro by filmmaker Gerald Fox

A collection of innovative and experimental silent shorts that revel in the world of dreams.

  • Total running time 102min

A programme of short silent films – each resembling a dream – utilising innovative cinematic devices to evoke a spirit of experimental reverie.

Ballet mécanique

France 1924. Directors Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy. 17min. Digital (restoration)

The Seashell and the Clergyman

La coquille et le clergyman

France 1927. Director Germaine Dulac. 40min. 35mm (restoration)

Accident

Polizeibericht Überfall

Germany 1928. Director Ernö Metzner. 18min. 35mm. A BFI National Archive print

Autumn Mists (aka Mists of Autumn)

Brumes d’automne

France 1928. Director Dimitri Kirsanoff. 12min. 35mm. A BFI National Archive print

Meshes of the Afternoon

USA 1943. Director Maya Deren. 15min. Digital. PG

All titles are silent with live piano accompaniment by John Sweeney

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