Silent Film Festival

September 25-28

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

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.

Silent Film Festival Pass: $40