film/STILL: Real and Unreal—Does Color Make a Difference?

90 Minute Running Time

Wednesday, April 10th at 7pm

Film critic Howie Movshovitz will discuss color in movies, including early hand-painted films before the turn of the 20th century; the experiments of Walter Ruttmann and Oskar Fischinger in the 1920s and 1930s; the advent of various color processes; and the mature work of the great film colorists Vincente Minnelli, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and Jacques Demy.

Howie Movshovitz: director of film education in the College of Arts and Media at the University of Colorado Denver, and artistic director of the Denver Silent Film Festival