Thanks from us to all for attending the 12th British Silent Film festival. We had a great time at the Barbican Cinema which is a fantastic space for showing silent cinema with music. Thanks to all those who gave up their time so fully and cheerfully to save the Festival in its time of need. We are confident that we can take the Festival forward and start planning a more secure future for it. Our musicians excelled themselves with their contribution to the theme of Music and Sound and the British Silent Film displaying their dazzling ability to ‘read’ film and take it to the heights the filmmakers might have imagined for it and perhaps beyond. The performances were superb, moving, passionate and fun. We learned also about the lost silent musicians of the pre talkie era, a story that is beginning to reveal a complex and fascinating world. For the next two days the Sounds of Early Cinema in Britain Conference will be revealing more about this hidden history.
Thank you everybody – we’ll put up some pictures, programme notes and a round up the Festival when we’ve recovered a bit.
June 9, 2009 at 10:30 am |
Well, thanks from all of us to you organisers and musicians too….it was a superb weekend, as always, and a minor miracle in the circumstances.
All power to your collective elbows for the forthcoming years; may the BSFF continue to do the sterling work it has been doing for a dozen years now, for at least a dozen more….