As part of our collaboration with the Eye Film Museum in the Netherlands this year, we will screen Fantastic Flowers, a compilation of short silent films produced between 1906 and 1920. Before the screening of this restoration project, which brings together films colored by using stencil-printing techniques, curator Elif Rongen will give a talk titled Let the Colors of Fantastic Flowers Not Fade. By presenting a number of examples, she will explain how historical film-coloring techniques have been adapted for today’s digital cinema.

Music curator and DJ Kornelia Binicewicz will accompany the screening with a live musical performance. 

Photography: Jurre Rompa