The Cinema Museum, London

Kennington Bioscope online – You Don’t Own Me: Copy/Rights and Cinema’s First Nasty Women

Wed 8 Jun 2022 @ 19:30 · Events

The Rembrandt in Rue Lepic (1911)To tie in with this June’s Women and the Silent Screen and Domitor conferences, the Kennington Bioscope is honoured to host this presentation of “You Don’t Own Me”: Copy/Rights and Cinema’s First Nasty Women, a selection of 8 silent film shorts which “thematize ‘reproduction’ in the context of struggles for rights and ownership”.

The films featured screened at an in-person event event in New York City on June 6th following the Women and the Silent Screen XI: “Women, Cinema, and World Migration” conference, and form the opening to the 17th International Domitor Conference “Copy/Rights and Early Cinema” which will now take place entirely online over Zoom.

By kind courtesy of Kino Lorber who will be releasing a spectacular 4 disc, 99 film Blu-ray/DVD set of “Cinema’s First Nasty Women” to the North American market in August 2022, KBTV is pleased to host this sneak preview of 8 films from the set with their newly recorded musical scores, and selected by “Cinema’s First Nasty Women” curators Maggie Hennefeld, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi and Tami Williams.

The presentation here is free and open access on YouTube with no registration required, and will premiere on June 8th 2022 at 2.30pm Eastern / 7.30pm British Summer Time / 20.30 CEST. Viewers can optionally log in to YouTube with a Google account to comment during the premiere in the chatbox feature. The presentation will be available for replay through June 26th. Details of the full programme on the YouTube page – click on Open Description.

Register for free online access to the entire Domitor conference with Zoom panels between June 9th-12th 2022:
Full conference programme details:
https://domitor.org/conference/2022-culpeper-conference/#2022-conference-program
Zoom registration:
https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ab3sW96MQ2OqhXVhn0k6Yw

Full information about the Cinema’s First Nasty Women project, including other events and the forthcoming Kino Lorber Blu-ray/DVD release:
https://wfpp.columbia.edu/cinemas-first-nasty-women/
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