cinema's first nasty women: silent cinema shorts with live music from dreamland faces

denmark/france/italy/netherlands/sweden/united kingdom/united states, dcp, ~75 mins.

Here’s your chance to see “trailblazing examples of female energy, anger, transgression, rebellions and explosive hilarity in early cinema” (Silent London). Shining a spotlight on female rebellion, cross-dressing, gender burlesque, and slapstick comedy, these films are drawn from a new collection curated by Laura Horak, Elif Rongen-Kaynakci, and UMN’s Maggie Hennefeld. This screening, “oozing with every which sort of feminist imagery” (Maggie Hennefeld), is set to live, original music by Dreamland Faces (Karen Majewicz and Andy McCormick) with dynamic colorings from Northrop’s own historic pipe organ (Molly Raben).

artist Q&A will follow the performance.