14 nights with authentic summer cinema, devoted to European Silent Films

Through their silence they narrated moments of their era, as well as created images of the future They expressed artistic movements, as well as addressed political speech At some point they served propaganda while they have been the realization of arts freedom. They appointed great movie stars and established leading directors. Foremost they have been the first steps of 7th art in Europe, the dawn of an era that was meant to be overwhelmed by moving images.

The invitation of Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in cooperation with STUDIO – parallel circuit and its President, Christos Papadimitriou as well as the laboratory Film Scoring with professor supervisor Alexandros Mouzas for the 2nd Silent Film Festival Tribute to European Cinema includes 16 masterpieces in selection of the director Michael Cacoyannis, in 14 days with entrance free of charge, accompanied either with the original soundtracks or with live music, in an authentic summer cinema, at the open air terrace on the 3rd floor of the Foundations Cultural Centre. Every film will be prefaced with a short comment by the writer of the popular book Vamps, Stathis Sklavounakos.

The films have been selected with special care by the director himself focusing on the undoubted aesthetics artistic value as well as in regards to the best possible condition of the material that would be screened. Thereby he invites us to a fest where 16 films will be screened, filmed from 1917 to 1929, with their original soundtracks or in cases that do not exist with live music accompaniment by Greek artists, with Greek or English subtitles.

Among the films we will enjoy Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1925) with the legendary six-minute scene at the stairs of the Odessa city in which Eisenstein tutors rhythm, austerity, plasticity and preciosity techniques, the futuristic Metropolis the monumental science fiction film (1927) by Fritz Lang, Faust (1926), probably the best film ever made by F. W. Murnau, the masterpiece of Swedish Silent Cinema The Outlaw and his wife by Victor Sjostrom (1918). The first example of German expressionism in cinema The Cabinet of Dr Caligari Robert Wiene (1919), the full of memorable images film The End of Saint Petersburg by Vsevolod Pudovkin (1927), the fanciful science fiction film Aelita – The revolt of the Robots by Yakov Protazanov (1924), the evoking film Michael by Carl Theodor Dreyer (1924), the A. Hitchcocks film The Manxman (1929) and many more.