The Museum of Modern Art will be hosting Silent Movie Week at The Museum of Modern Art from August 2nd through August 8th. As a commercial medium, silent film lasted for only about 30 years, but those 30 years represented a creative explosion with few parallels in the art world. Evolving from one-shot experiments into immensely complex formal systems in record time, movies captured the energy of an emerging industrial society in all of its beauty and horror. Without the benefit of spoken words, silent films developed a system of expression based on light and movement that led down new creative paths. And by drawing on the spectator’s imagination to complete their partial worlds, by filling in vocal nuance and ambient sounds, they solicit our attention and involvement in a unique way: to watch a silent film is to participate in its creation. It’s estimated that only 20 percent of the films made between 1895 and 1930 survive, and yet the work of preserving and restoring the remaining films continues. MoMA is one of several archives around the world with significant silent film holdings, and this program is an attempt to catch up with some of the work being done by our colleagues and ourselves, all presented here in East Coast—and in some cases United States—premieres.
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Broadway Magic Hour
Broadway Comedy Club (9/30 - 12/30) | |
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Lobby Hero
Manes Studio Theatre of Long Island (1/9 - 1/25)
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A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play
Hampton Theatre Company (12/12 - 12/14) | |
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Bette Davis Ain't For Sissies
Triad Theater (12/13 - 12/13) | |
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Down Once More
Teatro Latea (12/15 - 12/21) | |
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Dance, Edita, Dance!
The Factory Series @ The Chain Theatre (12/12 - 12/14) OFF-OFF-BROADWAY PREMIERE
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A Marble Christmas Concert: Everlasting Joy, Narrated by Simon Jones
Marble Collegiate Church (12/14 - 12/14) | |
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Dead to Us
The Irma Sandrey Theatre (12/11 - 12/13) | |
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Young Concert Artists Presents Radu Ratoi, accordion
Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center (12/11 - 12/11) | |
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The 2nd Annual Dionne Family Christmas
The Green Room 42 (12/22 - 12/22) | |
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Anonymous
spit&vigor tiny baby black box theater (1/29 - 2/28) | |
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& Juliet
Proctors (4/28 - 5/3) | |
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