Silent Film Festival: Restoration Panel Discussion

Thursday, September 25 at 7 PM

Panel Discussion ~ September 25 at 7 PM
Told in the Hills Restoration Premiere ~ September 26 & 27 at 7 PM
Nell Shipman Shorts ~ September 28 at 1 & 4 PM

Purchase your SILENT FILM FESTIVAL PASS to get access to all of the screenings + live music events this September.

The Third Annual Kenworthy Silent Film Festival runs Sept. 25-28 with a special slate of programs that highlight the early history of movies made in Idaho. We’ll kick off with a welcome panel session featuring Nez Perce cultural historian Nakia Williamson-Cloud, BSU archivists Gwyn Hervochon and Alessandro Meregaglia, and film editor Tom Frank at 7 PM, Thursday, Sept. 25. This discussion will furnish context for KPAC’s first major film restoration project, Told in the Hills (1919), a Western romance featuring over 100 Nez Perce actors and creative collaborators. Drawing from 25 minutes of surviving film footage, plus over 200 archival photos shot on set, we’ve painstakingly recreated the full cinematic experience with reference to the surviving film script. Diné composer Connor Chee will premiere a new score to be performed live at two screenings at 7 PM on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 26-27. To round out the program, KPAC has commissioned three LHSOM composers–Isabel Martin, Mallory Hunt, and Samuel Cooper–to produce new scores for a selection of shorts directed by Nell Shipman, the famed filmmaker and naturalist, who ran her own independent production studio at Priest Lake. The shorts will play at 1 and 4 PM on Sunday, Sept. 28

Presented in collaboration with BSU Idaho Film Collection. Major support comes from Trust for Civic Life, Idaho Humanities Council, and Inland North Waste, plus community sponsors: UI History and the Ruth Gregory WSU film lab. Essential artistic partnerships include Washington-Idaho Symphony and Lionel Hampton School of Music.

Silent Film Festival Pass: $40
Student Tickets: $10 at the door