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…