Seances (film)
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Seances (French title: Spiritismes) is an upcoming film project by filmmaker and installation artist Guy Maddin, in which will re-create imagined versions of lost films and other rare works from cinema's silent film era.
Paris
The following films were filmed at Centre Pompidou, Paris, February 22 - March 12, 2012.
- Dream Woman (lost Alice Guy movie, 1914, USA)
- Thérèse Raquin [or Shadows of Fear] (lost Jacques Feyder, 1928, Germany)
- Gardener Boy Sought (lost George Schnéevoigt, 1913, Denmark)
- Poto-Poto (unrealized Erich von Stroheim project)
- Rausch [Intoxication] (lost Ernst Lubitsch, 1919, Germany)
- The Strength of a Moustache (lost Mikio Naruse, 1931, Japan)
- Lines of the Hand (unrealized Jean Vigo; his daughter Luce Vigo acted in this)
- Over Barbed Wire (unrealized Aleksandr Dovzhenko, USSR)
- Fist of a Cripple (lost Tetos Dimitriadis, 1930, Greece)
- Blue Mountains Mystery (lost Lottie Lyell, 1921, Australia)
- Idle Wives (lost Lois Weber, 1916)
- Resurrection of Love (lost Kenji Mizoguchi, 1923, Japan)
- Tararira (lost Benjamin Fondane, 1936, Argentina)
- Bits of Life (lost Lon Chaney, Sr. & Anna May Wong, 1921, USA)
- Ladies of the Mob (lost William Wellman)
- Hello Pop! (lost Jack Cummings, 1933, USA)
- Sperduto nel buio [Lost in the Dark] (lost Nino Martoglio, 1914, Italy)
- The Blind Man (Alfred Hitchcock, unrealized)
An additional film, How to Take a Bath (lost Dwain Esper sexploitation film, 1937, USA) was scripted by American poet John Ashbery and completed in 2010." In addition, Ashbery has given [Maddin] a copy of his collage-play The Inn of the Guardian Angel, which was produced from New York Times obituaries and 1930 Hollywood fanzines, to "strip-mine for dialogue for the lost films."
Montreal
The following films were filmed at Centre PHI, Montreal, July 7–20, 2013.
- Saint, Devil and Woman (Frederick Sullivan, 1916)
- Tokyo’s Ginza District (Tsunekichi Shibata, 1898, Japan)
- Gabriele, the Lamplighter of the Harbour (Elvira Notari, 1919, Italy)
- Der Janus-kopf (F.W. Murnau, 1920, Germany)
- Women Skeletons (Guan Heifeng, 1922, China)
- Scout Day (Albert Tessier, 1929, Canada)
- The Scorching Flame (1918, Armand Robin, Canada)
