ItalianoIn 2002 the Giornate del Cinema Muto inaugurated this annual lecture in commemoration of Jonathan Dennis (1953-2002), founding director of the New Zealand Film Archive. Jonathan Dennis was an exemplary archivist, a champion of his country’s culture – particularly of Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand – and above all a person of outstanding human qualities.
The lecturers are selected as people who are pre-eminent in some field of work associated with the conservation or appreciation of silent cinema.
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2024
Craig Barron
Visual Effects Techniques in Silent Cinema
2023
Mindy Johnson
The Only Woman Animator – Bessie Mae Kelley
& Women at the Dawn of an Industry
2022
Stella Dagna
Etica del restauro: segreti e bugie?
2019
Camille Blot-Wellens
Notes on Film Identification:
A Tribute to Harold Brown
2018
Donald Crafton
From stage to screen and back again:
reconstructing Winsor McCay’s
Gertie the Dinosaur, 1914
2017
Russell Merritt
David Shepard
Shadowing Silent Film for Fifty Years
2016
James Curtis
William Cameron Menzies
and the Birth of Production Designer
2015
Naum Kleiman
Cinema, A Public Affair, Tatiana Brandrup, DE 2015
2014
Ichirō Kataoka, Benshi
2012
David Sproxton
2011
Serge Bromberg & Eric Lange
Lobster’s restoration of the colour version of Georges Méliès’ Le Voyage dans la lune
2010
Sir Jeremy Isaacs
2009
Edith Kramer
Film Programming: Where We’ve Been and
Where We’re Going [Arguments with Myself]
2008
Eileen Bowser
The Telephone Thriller;
or The Terrors of Modern Technology
2007
John Canemaker
Winsor McCay, His Life and Art
2006
Michael Eaton
Time and Silence
2005
Donald Richie
My Years in the Dark, 1947-2005
2004
Peter Lord
Dinosaurs, Devils and Living Toys:
A Brief History of 3 Dimensional Animation
2003
Richard Williams
Silent Cinema as the Animator’s Source
2002
Neil Brand
Where Does the Music Come From?