SILENT SHAKESPEARE
	Wednesday May 4 | St. George’s Church | 2.00pm, 7.30pm

Performing a score specially composed for these rare, silent masterpieces. Belfast Film Festival in partnership with The Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival are delighted to present Composer Laura Rossi, The Fourth Dimension String Quartet, and Silent Shakespeare.

With the text so central to Shakespeare’s work the very phrase Silent Shakespeare seems a contradiction in terms. But in the early years of cinema, a number of exquisite silent film adaptations of Shakespeare’s work were made,with the narrative delicately conveyed through looks, gestures, and silent film’s nearest approach to dialogue, the inter-title. Silent Shakespeare films have much to tell us about contemporary staging, acting styles, cultural assumptions, how the early cinema saw itself, and (of course) about Shakespeare. They have survived almost a century and include very beautiful examples of hand stencilling and tinted prints.
In the early years of cinema, a number of exquisite silent film
adaptations of Shakespeare’s work were made...

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