Magirama (J’accuse)

Screening Schedule

Nov 24 (Fri.) 16:00 at Yokogawa Cinema

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Details

Abel Gance develops the projection device on three screens tried with Napoleon in 1927, with the images of the J'accuse’s film version from 1937. He therefore returns once again on the First World War in a format allowing to restore the extent of the traumatism lived.
This film restoration has attached itself to the central part of the device, a complex operation based from on an incomplete print belonging to Nelly Kaplan and a dupe negative from the Gaumont collections.

Director: Abel Gance, Nelly Kaplan

Year of production: 1957
Running time: 57’
Country: France
« Magirama », d’Abel Gance et Nelly Kaplan (1956), version en polyvision de « J’accuse » (1938) - © Gaumont - une restauration du CNC avec la collaboration de Lobster Films.

Director

Abel Gance devoted himself to reading philosophy books on his own, then he published poetry and plays from 1908 to 1910. At the same time, he became a stage actor in minor roles for living and eventually began to write a script for Gaumont which started making films just invented in France. At first, he produced propaganda films of war, he learned to make films committed to the avant-garde movement. In 1922, a masterpiece "La Roue", he made ambitious attempts aiming at rhythmic image effects mainly rhythm of light and shadow, sudden flashback and so on. It affected remarkably the silent movie art history in the world. In 1927, "Napoléon" became a hot topic for an unheard-of method that was a more than 12-hours movie, full orchestra accompaniment, multi-camera projection on a triple-screen.