Fabian Lothar Walter Reiter

Silent Antiquity Prints Unique to the BFI National Archive, Wednesday 25 June 2025 15:00 – 16:30 & 17:00 – 18:30 Aula Seminari, DAMsLab, Piazzetta P. P. Pasolini 5/b, 40122 Bologna

Museum of Dreamworlds. These two workshops will include presentations on some silent antiquity prints which we believe to be unique to the BFI National Archive, the screening of substantial clips from them and plenty of time for discussion. The organisers welcome the comments of participants as they further develop their research on these films. The workshops have been organised by the members of the University College London research project Museum of Dreamworlds: Prof. Maria Wyke (UCL), Dr. Ivo Blom (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam), Dr. Aylin Atacan (UCL) and Bryony Dixon (silent film curator, BFI National Archive), in collaboration with Eye Filmmuseum and other partner archives. The project (2023-2027) focuses on the paradoxically close relationship between the modern medium of silent cinema and the distant worlds of ancient Greece and Rome, using film prints and film-related materials from the collection of the British Film Institute as its point of departure and comparing them with what survives in other archives.