Gaumont Presents Léonce Perret
November 14, 2003
Each year at MoMA, the Cinémathèque Gaumont presents
recently restored films from its archives. This year’s program
focuses on the work of the pioneering actor, screenwriter, and director
Léonce Perret (1880–1935), one of the most prolific
and innovative filmmakers of Gaumont’s silent period. Perret
is celebrated for the wide narrative range of his cinema, notably
the hundreds of comedies, dramas, and serials he made for Gaumont
between 1906 and 1916, the year he left France for the United States.
Selected by Martine Offroy, curator, Cinémathèque Gaumont,
based on her presentation at Il Cinema Ritrovato, the film preservation
festival in Bologna, the Perret films were restored from original
nitrate negatives by the Cinémathèque Gaumont and the
Cinémathèque française in collaboration with
the Centre National de la Cinématographie and the Ministry
of Culture.
Organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator.
. 1911–16.
France. A program of two short films, Les Béquilles
(The Crutches) (1911) and Le Moïse du moulin (Moses of
the Mill) (1911), followed by the short feature film Qui?
(Who?) (1916), one of cinema's first who-dunnits.
Films screened with original French intertitles; simultaneous English
translation. Silent, with
original
piano accompaniment
by
Stuart
Oderman. Approx. 90 min.
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