100 Years of Film as Art (BFI Southbank)
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Calling all cinephiles! It’s 100 years since The Film Society was founded to promote cinema as an art form. Help us celebrate with a triple bill of avant-garde films.
### Rien que les heures
France 1926. Director Alberto Cavalcanti. 40min. 35mm
### Entr’acte
France 1924. Director René Clair. 22min. 35mm
### Ménilmontant
France 1926. Director Dimitri Kirsanoff. 38min. 35mm
### + intro by BFI National Archive curator Bryony Dixon
It’s 100 years since a group of London cinephiles founded The Film Society. From its first screenings in October of that year, the society was hugely influential – expanding the appreciation of film as an art form, sparking-off the establishment of UK-wide film societies and providing a forum for the idea of developing the film archive. To celebrate the centenary, here are three eye-opening avant-garde films, all filmed in Paris. This programme is made up of prints deriving directly from materials acquired by the Film Society in the 1920s and 30s, sent for sake-keeping to the BFI National Archive during the Second World War.
100 Years of Film as Art (BFI Southbank)