Three new presentations coming up
Monday 17 April I will give a paper (online, alas) on the iconographic sources of the 1914 Italian silent epic film Cabiria (mainly, the appropriation of the two French painters G.A. Rochegrosse and H.P. Motte), at the conference Cabiria Heritage, at the University of Turin.
Friday 21 April, I will create the ‘slot’‘Her/Hair Affairs. Hair and Gestures in Early Cinema’, at the workshop Dance, Acting, Movement and Gestural Patterns in Silent Cinema (focused on women and organized in the framework of W.I.S.S.PE.R. project), Eye Study Center, Amsterdam.
Thursday 11 May, I will give the paper ‘Une tradition artistique composite. Tracer l’iconographie punique du film Cabiria (Giovanni Pastrone, 1914) dans l’archéologie et les musées’, at the conference Cinéma et Archéologie, at the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris.
Ivo Blom 