'Shadows Recovered', ten years showing the cinematographic legacy

From October 23 to 27, the tenth Shadows Recovered Film Recovery Exhibition screens gems of restored silent cinema at the Filmoteca Española and at the Círculo de Bellas Artes.

The WHAT?, Association of Friends of the Spanish Film Library, has presented at the Círculo de Bellas Artes the tenth edition of Shadows recovered, an exhibition of the recovery of restored films focused on the silent period of cinematographic art, carried out in collaboration with the Spanish Film Archive and the Círculo de Bellas Artes.

The Film Recovery Show organized by the Association of Friends of the Spanish Film Library, offers one more year in its programming restored masterpieces of classic cinema, lost jewels of the 20th century doomed to disappear, which expert hands have saved from the ravages of time.

Shadows Regained 2013, which will be held in Madrid from October 23 to 27 in the rooms of the Spanish Film Library and the Círculo de Bellas Artes, will show the public eight films, all of them recent restorations, belonging to the film archives of Czechoslovakia, Germany and Italy. The non-fiction medium-length film of the year 2012 produced by the AAFE Rescuing Shadows: cinema, death and memory, which addresses the deterioration of celluloid, will round out the lineup.

The tenth AAFE Film Recovery Show opens next Wednesday, October 23, with the screening of the film presented by the Narodní Filmový Archiv of Prague Batalion, Czechoslovakia, 1937, directed by filmmaker Miroslav Cikán.

At the presentation of the tenth anniversary of the Exhibition, the existence of cycles of these characteristics was highlighted as essential to understanding the language of mobile images, as well as to safeguard the audiovisual cultural heritage and make the public aware of the languages ​​in which modern cinema is forged.

The main objective of Shadows Regained is to publicize relevant works from the world history of cinema, paying special attention to titles from the silent era, a stage in which the greatest amount of material has been deteriorated or lost.