DATES
FRI 12.04.2024 – 13:00–16:00 – Introduction | ZV Seminarraum (DO0425)
FRI 19.04.2024 – 13:00–17:00 – Input / Workshop | Zeitbasiertes Wohnzimmer
Homework: upload your screenshots to this Google Drive
FRI 03.05.2024 – Meeting point I: excursion to the Autochrome exhibition at Francisco Carolinum, meeting at the venue at 13:20
Meeting point II: Input / Workshop | Zeitbasiertes Wohnzimmer from around 15:00 on
FRI 24.05.2024 – 13:00–17:00 – Internal Presentation | Zeitbasiertes Wohnzimmer
THU 06.06.2024 excursion to the Österreichisches Filmmuseum Vienna
Meeting point I: 1190 Vienna, Heiligenstädterstrasse 175 (courtyard) at 12:00
Meeting point II: 1010 Vienna, Augustinerstraße 1 at 15:00
TBA: End-of-Semester Presentation
MOVIES – for all available movies click here
Documentaries
☆ Die Lust an der Farbe 1 and Die Lust an der Farbe 2 (Martin Loiperdinger, 1995)
A two part documentary about the history of early analogue color film in German language.
☆ Un Reve en Coleur (Eric Lange, 2003)
French documentary about the history of early analogue color film in English language.
☆ L'enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot (Bromberg and Madrea, 2009)
French documentary about a film that was never finished and contains some of the craziest colour experiments in film history.
Feature Films
☆ A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès, 1902) – hand colored
☆ The Toll of the Sea (Chester M. Franklin, 1922) – two color Technicolor
☆ The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian, 1925) – toned with one two color Technicolor scene
☆ Doctor X (Michael Curtiz, 1932) – two color Technicolor
☆ The Wizard Of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939) – three color Technicolor
☆ Fantasia (Walt Disney, 1940) – three color Technicolor
☆ Münchhausen (Josef von Báky, 1943) – Agfacolor
☆ Black Narcissus (Pressburger and Powell, 1947)
☆ Niagara (Henry Hathaway, 1953)
☆ The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse, 1956)
☆ Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
☆ Floating Weeds ( Ozu Yasujirō, 1959)
☆ Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Ôshima, 1960)
☆ West Side Story (Robert Wise, 1961)
☆ Le Meprise (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
☆ Il Deserto Rosso (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
☆ Les parapluies de Cherbourg (Jaques Demi, 1964)
☆ Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967)
☆ Tron (Steven Lisberger, 1982)
☆ Absolute Beginners (Julien Temple, 1986)
☆ Blue (Derek Jarman, 1993)
☆ The three Colors series by Krzysztof Kieslowski
☆ Bleu / Blue (1993)
☆ Rouge / Red (1994)
☆ Blanc / White (1994)
☆ Warsaw Uprising (Jan Komasa, 2014)
☆ Berlin Alexanderplatz (Burhan Qurbani, 2020)
More to come…
TEXT, LITERATURE and LINKS
☆ Timeline of Historical Film Colors (webpage)
☆ Yumibe, Joshua (2012) Moving Color Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism (book)
☆ Street, Johnston, Frith, Rickards (2021) Colour Films in Britain The Eastmancolor Revolution (book)
☆ Peacock, Steven(2010) Colour (book)
☆ Geoff Andrew (1998) The ‘Three Colours’ Trilogy (book)
☆ Higgins, Scott (2007) Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow Color Design in the 1930s (book)
⇒ For all available e-books click here
More to come…