Das Eskimobaby at Mush! to the Movies!

THE VELASLAVASAY PANORAMA
Summons your presence for

Mush! To The Movies! 
featuring
DASESKIMOBABY

Friday, February 6th, 2015
7:30pm
General Admission $10
eskimobaby.brownpapertickets.com
Free tickets are offered to currentVPES Members& Filmforum Members with RSVP
Please contact the secretary by February 5th at event@panoramaonview.org to make your reservations

Das Eskimobaby
Germany, 1918, 65 min., b&w, digital projection 
Directed by Heinz Schall 
Silent with score by Maud Nelissen 
Special thanks to Deutsche Kinemathek
Screening of this film is sponsored by Magda Rockmore
 

Das Eskimobaby stars silent film diva Asta Nielsen, one of the first movie stars in film history. Between 1911 and 1914, Nielsen made more than 30 films in Berlin and established herself as an iconic physical comedienne. In this film, Nielsen's character, Ivigtut, experiences the unusual woes of an Arctic outsider among polite Berlin society after an explorer takes her back to his home in Germany. The Kinematograph Weekly called Nielsen's performance in Das Eskimobaby "...the best example of the mastery of all the opportunities afforded by screen acting."

Das Eskimobaby will be preceded by:

Eskimo Hunters of Northeast Alaska

1949, 20 min., b&w, sound, digital projection 
Produced by Louis deRochemont, directed by Kay Norton. 
Special thanks to Flicker Alley LLC
Screening of this film is sponsored by JKL Components Corporation
 

A team of filmmakers revisit the activities seen in Nanook of the North thirty years later and document igloos roofed with canvas, traditional song and dances taught in school houses, and crafts being exchanged for goods in a trading post (much like the daily activites of the Nova Tuskhut!).

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Mush! to the Movies! : A Polar Film Club
is a coproduction with Los Angeles Filmforum Director Adam Hyman

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