Email from Italy 15 Dec

Lorenzo Codelli wrote me an email to tell me “Don’t miss the December 15 only screening, with live Indian music, of the following very rare and beautiful silent Indian classic KALIYA MARDAN (that we did screen years ago at our Pordenone Silent Festival). Tickets will sell out soon”. This is part of the Singapore National Museum Opening festival. Kaliya was made in 1912, my favourite silent film period because the command of the film language was very naive then, directors felt they were uncovering a new syntax, a process often filled with joy and magic. This still says it all.

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Look Ma, no hands