Lectures, introductions, workshops... – Pierre Loti
Using a number of restored short films, EYE Film Museum researcher and programmer Elif Rongen Kaynakçi illustrates the places that the most famous French travel writer visited or imagined.
The film program is meant to evoke the universe of Loti, through films that were shot during his lifetime, touching upon the many places to which he travelled, and echoing his formative times at military school and with close friends.
LECTURE
Elif Rongen Kaynakçi ( EYE Filmmuseum ) ⁄ EN
The lecture is illustrated with many photographs from Loti's life providing a chronology to his achievements and serves to connect the dots between him and the archival footage selected from Eye Filmmuseum's collection.
FILMS
Anoniem - Anonyme, France 1917 ⁄ TINTED ⁄ 8' ⁄ TIT: NL ⁄ ST - OND: — ⁄ PIANO
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, UK 1897 ⁄ B&W ⁄ 1' ⁄ ST - OND: — ⁄ PIANO
Anoniem - Anonyme, France 1909 ⁄ B&W ⁄ 6' ⁄ TIT: DE ⁄ ST - OND: — ⁄ PIANO
Anoniem - Anonyme, France 1912 ⁄ B&W ⁄ 4' ⁄ TIT: NL ⁄ ST - OND: — ⁄ PIANO
Anoniem - Anonyme, France 1917 ⁄ B&W ⁄ 5' ⁄ TIT: NL ⁄ ST - OND: — ⁄ PIANO
Anoniem - Anonyme, France 1919 ⁄ 9' ⁄ TIT: NL ⁄ ST - OND: — ⁄ PIANO
Anoniem - Anonyme, France 1911, Gianna Terribili-Gonzales, Cesare Moltini ⁄ 9' ⁄ TIT: DE ⁄ ST - OND: — ⁄ PIANO
Anoniem - Anonyme, France 1920 ⁄ B&W ⁄ 3' ⁄ TIT: NL ⁄ ST - OND: — ⁄ PIANO
Lorem ipsum, France 1910, Anonyme ⁄ B&W ⁄ 3' ⁄ ST - OND: — ⁄ PIANO
Anoniem - Anonyme, France 1923 ⁄ B&W ⁄ 4' ⁄ TIT: NL ⁄ ST - OND: — ⁄ PIANO
Anoniem - Anonyme1919 ⁄ color ⁄ 4' ⁄ ST - OND: — ⁄ PIANO
The film program is meant to evoke the universe of Loti, through films that were shot during his lifetime, touching upon the many places to which he travelled, and echoing his formative times at military school and with close friends. It also contains some short fiction films with settings and stories similar to Loti’s own fictional writings. Despite many of his novels having been adapted to the cinema even during his lifetime, and his eagerness to have himself photographed, often in exotic costume, no film footage of Loti is known to exist. The lecture is illustrated with many photographs from Loti's life providing a chronology to his achievements and serves to connect the dots between him and the archival footage selected from Eye Filmmuseum's collection.
