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Silent Film & Live Music: Into the Garden of Chimerical Delights

Fashion in Film Festival

A woman dressed as a butterfly, blue, green, yellow, bends backwards towards the camera

A programme of archival gems that explore the interesting and sometimes unusual connections between women, flowers, and insects, from 20th Century filmmakers. 

The experimental choir group Musarc will create a vocal and rhythmic soundscape for this kaleidoscope of feminine imagery: women decorated or posing with floral arrangements, examining and creating them, or even dressed as them and magically appearing from them. 

Spanning various pre-World War I genres, these shorts reflect 19th-century ideas of femininity as synonymous with beauty, sensuality and enchantment while also revealing ideas of 'dangerous' female erotic power. 

The screening is followed by a panel discussion with Musarc, joined by the programme curators Marketa Uhlirova and Elif Rongen. Moderated by writer Dal Chodha.

Total film running-time: 48 mins approx.
Total event running-time: 90 mins approx.

Films can contain elements which some may find upsetting; from references to self-harm or suicide, to sexual violence or domestic abuse. The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) provides guidance to audiences, to help them choose what’s right for them and avoid what’s not. For guidance, please click here and type the film title into the search bar.

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Programme

Brahmin and the Butterfly (La Chrysalide et le Papillon d’Or) (France 1901 Dir Georges Méliès (Star Films) 2 min) 

Good Evening, Flowers! (Buona Sera, Fiori) (Italy 1909 Dir Giovanni Vitrotti (Ambrosio) 1 min) 

[Paris Fashions] (France 1912 Dir Unknown 8 sec) (clip)

Different Hair Dresses (Coiffes et coiffures) (France 1905 Dir Gaston Velle (Pathé frères) 1 min) (clips)

Butterfly Dance (La Danse du papillon) (France 1897 Dir Albert Kirchner (Léar) 1 min) 

The Manufacture of Artificial Flowers (Fabrication des Fleurs Artificielles) (France 1911 Dir Unknown (Pathé frères) 6 min)

Flower Market Haarlem (Bloemenvelden Haarlem) (Netherlands 1909 Dir Willy Mullens 2 min)

Nature’s Fairest (Het schoonste uit de natuur) (France 1912 Dir Unknown (Gaumont) 3min) 

The Flower Fairy (La Fée aux fleurs) (France 1905 Dir Gaston Velle (Pathé frères) 2 min) 

The Bee and the Rose (L’Abeille et la rose) (France 1908 Dir Segundo de Chomón (Pathé frères) 4 min

Chrysanthemums (Les Chrysanthèmes) (France 1907 Dir Segundo de Chomón (Pathé frères) 3 min

Roses (Les Roses) (France 1908 Dir Étienne Arnaud (Gaumont) 2 min) 

Magic Roses (Les Roses Magiques) (France 1906 Dir Segundo de Chomón (Pathé frères) 3 min)

A Butterfly's Metamorphoses (Métamorphoses du Papillon) (France 1904 Dir Gaston Velle (Pathé frères) 2 min) 

Paris Fashions: Hats from the House of Francine Arnould (France c.1912 Dir Unknown (Pathé frères) 33 sec) (clip) 

The Latest Parisian Fashion: Hairstyles from the House of Decoux (De Laatste Parijscher Mode: Kapsels van het Huis Decoux) (France c.1913 Dir Unknown (Pathé frères) 26 sec) (clip)

Fashion from the Galeries Lafayette (Présentation de mode des Galeries Lafayette) (France 1912 Dir Unknown (Gaumont) 1 min) 

Tit for Tat (La Peine du Talion) (France 1906 Dir Gaston Velle (Pathé frères) 5 min) 

Flowery Spring (Printemps Fleuri) (France 1912 Dir Unknown (Pathé frères) 6 min) 

Transformations (Métempsycose) (France 1907 Dirs Segundo de Chomón & Ferdinand Zecca (Pathé frères) 3 min)

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