The 8th Silent Film Festival in Thailand (เทศกาลภาพยนตร์เงียบ ประเทศไทย ครั้งที่ 8) will take place next month at the Thai Film Archive in Salaya, from 6th to 8th September. The event marks both the tenth anniversary of the Silent Film Festival, which began in 2014, and the fortieth anniversary of the Film Archive, which was founded in 1984.
Highlights include rare 35mm screenings of two Yasujiro Ozu comedies, I Was Born, But... (大人の見る絵本 生れてはみたけれど) and Tokyo Chorus (東京の合唱). The programme also features two horror films from Sweden: The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen) and the bizarre cult movie Witchcraft Through the Ages (Häxan). (The Phantom Carriage was a significant influence on Ingmar Bergman, and also inspired a famous sequence in The Shining.)
One of the most iconic of all silent films, A Trip to the Moon (Le voyage dans la lune) by Georges Méliès, will also be shown. (It has been screened in Thailand several times before: at the International Heritage Film Festival in 2015, at La Fête in 2012—in its hand-painted colour version—and at the 5th World Film Festival of Bangkok in 2007.)
Witchcraft Through the Ages will be shown on 6th September, The Phantom Carriage on 7th September, and A Trip to the Moon on 8th September, all with piano accompaniment by Matti Bye. Mie Yanashita will provide piano accompaniment for I Was Born, But... on 7th September and Tokyo Chorus on 8th September.
Highlights include rare 35mm screenings of two Yasujiro Ozu comedies, I Was Born, But... (大人の見る絵本 生れてはみたけれど) and Tokyo Chorus (東京の合唱). The programme also features two horror films from Sweden: The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen) and the bizarre cult movie Witchcraft Through the Ages (Häxan). (The Phantom Carriage was a significant influence on Ingmar Bergman, and also inspired a famous sequence in The Shining.)
One of the most iconic of all silent films, A Trip to the Moon (Le voyage dans la lune) by Georges Méliès, will also be shown. (It has been screened in Thailand several times before: at the International Heritage Film Festival in 2015, at La Fête in 2012—in its hand-painted colour version—and at the 5th World Film Festival of Bangkok in 2007.)
Witchcraft Through the Ages will be shown on 6th September, The Phantom Carriage on 7th September, and A Trip to the Moon on 8th September, all with piano accompaniment by Matti Bye. Mie Yanashita will provide piano accompaniment for I Was Born, But... on 7th September and Tokyo Chorus on 8th September.
