Colour Fantastic @ EYE Film Institute

EYE Film Institute Netherlands will organise the conference Colour Fantastic: Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema from 29-31 March 2015 in Amsterdam. This conference will explore contemporary archival and academic debates around colour in the silent film era. Keynote speakers include the filmmaker Peter Delpeut, Professor Tom Gunning (University of Chicago), and Professor Vanessa Toulmin (University of Sheffield). The conference includes screenings of rare, restored films. In addition, the new book Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema by Gunning, NECSUS advisory board member Giovanna Fossati, Joshua Yumibe, and Jonathan Rosen, published by Amsterdam University Press, will be presented.