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| Festival Year |
Festival Section |
| 2005 |
21st Century Silents |
| Film Title |
THE STARVING ARTIST |
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| Country |
USA |
| Release Date |
2004 |
| Production Co. |
Wisconsin Bioscope |
| Director |
David Olson |
| Format |
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Speed (fps) |
| 35mm |
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16 |
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| Footage |
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Time |
| 250 ft. |
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4'10" |
| Archive Source |
Communication Arts Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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| Print Notes |
Didascalie in inglese / English intertitles. |
| Cast |
| Peter Marinucci, Travis Bird, Katie Weber, Megan Mullins |
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| Other Credits |
| prod., scen: Dan Fuller; f./ph: Evan Foster |
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| Program Notes |
| Since 1999, University of Wisconsin students have made silent films as the Wisconsin Bioscope Company, a fictitious film studio from before the First World War, whose productions have been screened at the Giornate in 2000 and 2004. The Starving Artist was directly inspired by a photograph of a 1907 Vitagraph production reproduced in Kevin Brownlow’s The Parade’s Gone By. The film was shot outdoors in September 2004 with a hand-cranked Universal camera made in Chicago in 1924 and was lit by reflected sunlight. David Olson, the director, guided the actors with narration and cues during the performance, while in the background a recording of the Alexander Oishanetsky Orchestra’s “What Can You Mach? S’is America” (1929) played to provide rhythm and atmosphere. – DAN FULLER |
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