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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · 6h

The curators of Cinema's First Nasty Women presenting the annual Copley lecture on Silent Film Costume Design -- "DRESSED FOR CHAOS" -- at the Giornate del Cinema Muto! 🎊🎞️👗🧯 @hennefem.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social #GCM44

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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 18h

From Pompei to the sea bed via confused parents and others in denial. And, blessed are the costume designers with their help we can smash the patriarchy! Day Six at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto.

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Epic Thursday… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 44, Day Six

White Heather (1919) Are Parents People? (1925) with Neil Brand Not a lot of people know this but, when this film was screened at the K...

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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · 17h

"A real highlight of the day arrived with the UCLA David C. Copley Lecture on Costume Design and Silent Cinema, this year presented by the Nasty Women Triumvirate: Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçı." Thank you @silentlondon.bsky.social !! ❤️🎞️🎩

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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 6

Feature films? What a concept. They don’t always seem to be the dominant form here at Pordenone. But this afternoon was an exception to that rule, with a triple-bill of four-to-six-reelers back to …

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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 19h

Dress to impress, it's Pordenone Day Six. silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/09/l...

Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 6

Feature films? What a concept. They don’t always seem to be the dominant form here at Pordenone. But this afternoon was an exception to that rule, with a triple-bill of four-to-six-reelers back to …

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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · 1d

It's almost time to DRESS FOR CHAOS (👗🧨) which is both a pro-tip and an accurate description of the NASTY WOMEN COSTUME LECTURE.. *today* at 6pm at the Giornate del Cinema Muto!! Co-delivered by CFNW curators Elif Kaynakci, @hennefem.bsky.social, & @laurah.bsky.social 🎞️🎊

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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 2d

And emotional day four at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto! #SilentFilm

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Tears are not enough… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Day Four

Ruan Lingyu abides... OK, new rules, we’re halfway through and it’s time to make this blog snappier. Today: · Cried – twice · ...

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 1d

i'm chuffed about my fancy new Léontine t-shirt designed by @florencisalesas.bsky.social !! (sporting a fashionable suzanne grandais version)

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 1d

"There was more mischief to be had in the afternoon w/a triple-bill devoted to Louis Feuillade’s collaborations w/the elusive Léontine.." ⁉️🎞️🎈 Big day for Léontine! Powerful & dazzling line-up of screenings at #GCM44, chronicled brilliantly by @pamhutch.bsky.social

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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 5

It may seem that the Giornate is in its own bubble, a hundred years or more removed from the real world, wrapped up in the fashions and the fads of the past. But we’re still looking out at th…

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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 1d

A night in Le Giornate del Cinema Muto that I won't forget silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/08/l...

Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 5

It may seem that the Giornate is in its own bubble, a hundred years or more removed from the real world, wrapped up in the fashions and the fads of the past. But we’re still looking out at th…

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 2d

Today Léontine will return to the Teatro Verdi in Pordenone!! 🤩 She raises a ruckus as Musidora's cook in a parody of Les Vampires directed by Feuillade -- followed by Jane Gaines' lecture on Imagining silent film history with only women..... ⁉️🎞️

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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 2d

Day four of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto brought a return to East Lynne and a visit to the women of Chaplinland. silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/08/l...

Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 4

Last night I dreamt I went to East Lynne again… Ellen Wood is directing my subconscious now. I love this mini melodrama strand and I really enjoyed today’s instalment, which was the lavish 1925 Fox…

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 3d

I was delighted to chat with Allison Tyra on @infinite-women.com about 'Death by Laughter,' Léontine, and feminist comedy as a catalyst for solidarity & resistance!! ❤️@columbiaup.bsky.social @nastysilents.bsky.social

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 3d

can you tell we're excited for the Mabel Normand screening?! #GCM44 🎞️ @pamhutch.bsky.social

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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 3d

Day three at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and it was full-on with "Pink Tea Talking" and "little mites of wonderment"...

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Electric Gypsy… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Day 3

Let’s start at the big finish shall we, let’s begin with the pure diva pomp and circumstance of Italia Almirante Manzini playing the Queen...

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 3d

The irresistible benefits of becoming a @wfhinetwork.bsky.social member!!! 🎞️😍 www.wfhi.org

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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · 3d

If you're not following @silentlondon.bsky.social's daily recaps of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, then you're doing it all wrong! (But it's not too late!!) Day 3 just dropped. 🎞️🎶😍

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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 3

Monday finished with a zinger. I mean a Zingari. Italia Almirante Manzini wowed the Verdi as Wilejka, a heavy-lidded beauty with great hair, but in this case as a heavy-lidded beautiful Gypsy sheph…

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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 3d

Day three of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto was packed with Drama with a capital D. For Diva. silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/06/l...

Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 3

Monday finished with a zinger. I mean a Zingari. Italia Almirante Manzini wowed the Verdi as Wilejka, a heavy-lidded beauty with great hair, but in this case as a heavy-lidded beautiful Gypsy sheph…

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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 4d

This week on the podcast: @hennefem.bsky.social, author of ⁠Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria & Early Cinema⁠, talks women's laughter & film, & how archives of feminist film comedy can inspire creativity & resistance in our political culture today. 1/3
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Dr Maggie Hennefeld on women's comedy and laughter in film and activism by Infinite Women

Maggie Hennefeld is a Professor of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota and author of Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria & Early Cinema. Maggie is also affiliated w...

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 4d

A specter is haunting the #GCM44 book fair in Pordenone!! (Apparently Death by Laughter already sold out) 🎞️👻

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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 5d

And we’re off at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto #44! #SilentFilm

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The march begins… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Edition 44, Day One

In Pordenone we travel through distance as well as time, moving across countries and continents as much as in style and substance, all of ...

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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 4d

Day two in Pordenone was eventful…

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Love and Death… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Edition 44, Day Two

Harry Solter on the job. Photo from Biograph Project showing restored image on right vs old paper copy... Oh, Willie, my child dead, dead,...

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Doron Galili @galili.bsky.social · Jul 31

Just a reminder that in 1916 - long before Pete Townshend and other rocker dudes made it their signature move - Grace Cunard smashed a guitar in The Bandit's Wager.