Film
Lois Weber Program 1
- 8:45PM
One of film history’s first auteurs, writer, producer, director, and actress Lois Weber combined daring themes of social justice with pioneering technical breakthroughs in cinematic storytelling.
New 2K DCP courtesy Kino Lorber
Dirs. Lois Weber & Phillips Smalley
1913, 11min, DCP
This one-reel thriller—about a menaced mother and child—displays Weber’s dazzling formal mastery, including film history’s first split-screen. Film theorist Tom Gunning wrote: “No film made before WWI shows a stronger command of film style.”
Recorded music by Skylar Nam and the Berklee Silent Film Orchestra
Dir. Lois Weber
1916, 36min, DCP
Weber envisions gossip as a literal beast that destroys the life of a stenographer accused of having an affair with her boss.
Recorded music by Andrew Earle Simpson
Dir. Lois Weber
1915, 52min, DCP
Weber courted immense controversy with this provocative exploration of sham religious piety, in which moral hypocrisy is exposed by the Naked Truth—portrayed literally by a nude actress.
Recorded Music by Ben Model
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Thematically daring, formally innovative works from one of cinema history’s first auteurs.
Hard-hitting, socially-conscious dramas that confront the exploitation of women.
The ebullient director-comedian in films co-starring Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle