Film
Lois Weber Program 2
- 2PM
One of film history’s first auteurs, writer-producer-director-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, 15min, DCP
In this silent-era music video, Weber uses an array of formally inventive techniques—including evocative matte shots—to visualize a popular song of the era.
Recorded music by Esin Aydingoz and the Berklee Silent Film Orchestra
Dirs. Lois Weber & Phillips Smalley.
1912, 15min, DCP
Weber addresses issues of class and the subjugation of women in this tale of an artist’s model exploited by a painter.
Recorded music by Liz Magnes
Dir. Lois Weber
With Tyrone Power Sr., Helen Riaume, Marie Walcamp
1916, 65min, DCP
This controversial drama is a frank and, for its time, surprisingly risky look at abortion, birth control, and sexuality that weds Weber’s innovative cinematic style to an impassioned (though now unsurprisingly retrograde) sociopolitical statement.
Recorded music by Maud Nelissen
Preserved by New York Women in Film & Television’s Women’s Film Preservation Fund
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Thematically daring, formally innovative works from one of cinema history’s first auteurs.
Essential slices of film history from the very first female director.
The ebullient director-comedian in films co-starring Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle