The Japanese Film Festival returns in 2024.
Sydney 9 October - 10 November.
Details at The Japanese Film Festival Australia.
Japan Foundation Exhibition September 13, 2024 - March 1, 2025.
In the Shade of Cinema is an exhibition focusing on the history of movie theatres in the provincial city of Yamaguchi, Japan.
Details and trailer at Afternote: In the Shade of Cinema.
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Restoring the audience with classic silent and sound films!
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The Movies Begin!
130th Birthday Anniversary Tribute
1895 - 2025
In the race for the invention of cinema, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière were the official creators of the process. In 1895 they patented a device, which could take pictures, print positives and project them onto a screen.
The advent of film as an artistic medium is not clearly defined. There were earlier cinematographic screenings by others, however, the commercial, public screening of ten Lumière brothers' short films in Paris on 28 December 1895, can be regarded as the breakthrough of projected cinematographic motion pictures. The earliest films were in black and white, under a minute long, without recorded sound, and consisted of a single shot from a steady camera. The first decade saw film move from a novelty, to an established mass entertainment industry, with film production companies and studios established throughout the world. Conventions toward a general cinematic language developed, with film editing, camera movements and other cinematic techniques contributing specific roles in the narrative of films.
Sydney was designated as a UNESCO City of Film in 2010.
Quality cinema presentations since September 1896. In that month Marius Sestier gave private demonstrations of the Lumiere cinematographe at the Lyceum Theatre and presented the first exhibition of the cinematographe to the public at 237 Pitt Street, Sydney, the Salon Lumiere.
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Australia and the Silver Screen, an Australian treasure trove of items including a tribute to Felix the Cat and fascinating websites from Mark St Leon, Rod Blackmore OAM, Kev Franzi and Nick Murphy. Click here.
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Reclaim the movies and the audience! The not for profit and registered charity presents restored silent and sound film classics. A number of the sessions are accompanied with live music. Since 2007 it has continued to promote the artistic, cultural and historic value of cinema.
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Please stay in touch.
E: info@ozsilentfilmfestival.com.au
T: 0419 267 318
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