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Frames of Mind
Silent Cinema

Screening on Film
  • First Program of the Lumière Brothers

    Directed by Louis and Auguste Lumière.
    France, 1895, black & white, silent, 9 min.
  • A Trip to the Moon

    Directed by Georges Méliès.
    France, 1902, 12 min.
  • The Vanishing Lady

    Directed by Georges Méliès.
    France, 1896, black & white, silent, 6 min.
  • A Trick of the Light (Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky)

    Directed by Wim Wenders.
    With Udo Kier, Nadine Büttner, Christoph Merg.
    Germany, 1995, 35mm, color and b&w, 80 min.
    German with English subtitles.

Six weeks before the Lumière brothers' legendary screening in Paris of the "first" motion picture, three German brothers in Berlin screened eight film loops. In between the acrobatics and juggling that also occupied their life, Max, Eugen, and Emil Skladanowsky had invented the Bioskop. A century later, internationally renowned filmmaker Wim Wenders brings these little-known pioneers to the fore with this whimsical and touching film. With the help of his students from the Munich Film Academy, Wenders captures their story with a mix of documentary and recreated footage—much of it shot silent at eighteen frames per second with a vintage hand-cranked camera.

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