Ninth edition of the Restored Silent Film Exhibition, 'Sombras Recobradas'

The Film Recovery Show, organized every year by the Association of Friends of the Spanish Film Library, offers one more year in its program restored masterpieces of classic cinema, lost jewels of the 20th century doomed to disappear, which expert hands have saved of the ravages of time.

The AAFE, Association of Friends of the Spanish Film Library, presented this Wednesday at the Círculo de Bellas Artes the ninth edition of Shadows recovered, an exhibition of the recovery of restored films focused on the silent period of cinematographic art, carried out in collaboration with the Spanish Film Archive and the Círculo de Bellas Artes.

The Film Recovery Show, organized every year by the Association of Friends of the Spanish Film Library, offers one more year in its program restored masterpieces of classic cinema, lost jewels of the 20th century doomed to disappear, which expert hands have saved of the ravages of time.

Sombras Recobradas 2012, which will be held in Madrid from November 1 to 4 in the rooms of the Spanish Film Library and the Círculo de Bellas Artes, will show the public six films and a documentary, belonging to the film archives of Germany, Japan and Italy, dated between 1921 and 1937.

The ninth AAFE Recovered Cinema Exhibition opens next Tuesday, November 1 with the screening of the film presented and restored by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema-Fondazione María Adriana Prolo Cabiria, Italia (1931=, produced by Itala Film and directed by filmmaker Giovanni Pastrone, an adaptation to the early days of the sound of the Cabiria original (1914), an important work of cinematographic colossalism, Pastrone converted it into a sound film, not a spoken one.

In the presentation ceremony, the existence of cycles of these characteristics was highlighted as fundamental to understanding the evolution of the seventh art, as well as to safeguard the audiovisual cultural heritage and make the public aware of the languages ​​in which modern cinema is forged. .
Actress Esperanza Roy, for her part, stated that the few movie stars who survive today have to envy those who appear in the movies. Shadows Regained.
The cinema of the twenties and thirties of the last century, stated the director Pepe Briz, is infinitely more alive than the current one.

The main objective of Shadows Regained is to publicize relevant works from the world history of cinema, paying special attention to titles from the silent era, a stage in which the greatest amount of material has been deteriorated or lost.

WHAT?

The Association of Friends of the Spanish Film Library (AAFE) was born in 2000 under the auspices of such significant names for Spanish Cinema as Luis García Berlanga, Javier Bardem, Juan Mariné, Esperanza Roy, Javier Aguirre, Antonio Castro, José Briz or Juan Gabriel Tharrats, among others, dedicated to the recovery of Spanish cinematographic memory, organizing various events and cycles in collaboration with the Spanish Film Archive. Among them, the recovered film exhibition Sombras Recobradas stands out, which, since 2004, has been screening the latest restorations of the world's cinematographic heritage, with the collaboration of the Spanish Film Archive and the Círculo de Bellas Artes.

In January 2012, the AAFE presented the documentary Recatando Sombras: Cinema, Death and Memory, (recently awarded by the Romanian Film Association at the international Document.Art festival), a work that documents the work of film libraries to rescue from death and oblivion of films, reconstructing them, restoring them, preserving them and thus saving the Memory of the 20th century.

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