The silent film festival is back in its 4th year!
Bring your favorite lawn chair, dress as a silent film star
and join us in the great outdoors for:
A silent film jam by grammy nominee Tenia Nelson and her trio
10 award winning international and local short films
pop-up vintage markets
New music from Colorado musicians
Be apart of the action and also discover more about the films for the online Festival Launching September 1st!
The HOsts and Players
The Films & Makers
The Musicians
The Classics
The Tributes
Every year we like to highlight a couple pioneers that were innovators, movers, and shakers
Lotte Reiniger
Lotte Reiniger was an early pioneer in the field of animation and shadow puppetry. She began her work the 1910's until 1979. In the '30s she fled Nazi Germany and continued her work in the U.K. Lotte Reiniger is known today for her extraordinarily elaborate silhouette animations
Read this fascinating article on her process from 1936:
Scissors Make Films
Emile Raynaud
Emile Raynuad was an overlooked genius of the silent era. His inventions brought the first animation to the screen in 1892. In 1877 he created the praxinoscope, a zootrope with improved mechanisms that allowed a higher quality of movement of the images. With this new invention, Reynaud prepared in Paris a new show that he called Optical Theater, which he patented in 1888, in which he projected his luminous Pantomimes between the years 1892 and 1900.
Learn more :
The Beginning of Animation
Video Playlist