A Night of Silent Cinema: Soviet Montage & Avant-Garde Dreams
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Join us for a screening of four landmark works in the history of cinema: Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin (1925), Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera (1929), René Clair’s Entr’acte (1924), and Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy’s Ballet mécanique (1924).
From the revolutionary montage of Battleship Potemkin to the experimental, self-reflexive vision of Man with a Movie Camera, the surrealist absurdity of Entr’acte, and the rhythmic, machine-like visual poetry of Ballet mécanique, these films capture a moment when cinema was breaking free from theatrical conventions and discovering its own artistic language.
Expect striking images, radical editing, unexpected rhythms, and unconventional ways of seeing the world. These are films that challenge how we perceive movement, time, bodies, machines, and the possibilities of the cinematic image.
Whether you’re a cinephile, a film student, an experimental filmmaker, or simply curious about the history of cinema, come along to experience these extraordinary works on the big screen and share your thoughts with fellow film lovers.
No specialist knowledge is required — just curiosity and a love of cinema.
Four films. Four radical visions. One shared screen.