KEVIN BROWNLOW ● SILENT CINEMA ● Killruddery SFF 2009 (1)

Kevin Brownlow, special guest at Killruddery Silent Film Festival 2009, talks about his life long passion for silent cinema.

Wikipedia: Kevin Brownlow is a film maker, film historian, television documentary-maker, and author. He is best known for his work documenting the history of the silent era. Brownlow developed an interest in silent film at the young age of eleven. This interest grew into a life-long passion for the cinema and a career spent documenting and restoring film. He is without question one of the most respected and admired historians of the early cinema and has rescued many a silent film and its history from oblivion. Seeking out and interviewing many, largely forgotten film pioneers in the 1960s and 1970s, he preserved a priceless legacy of cinema that would have otherwise been lost.

Kevin Brownlow spoke to Marek Bogacki.

Camera: Marek Bogacki
Produced by DOCUMENTAVI

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Silent
• Film
• Brownlow

[dutchbonnet]

It's been available for years, as has 'It Happened Here', but 'Winstanley' has just been re-mastered and re-issued by The British Film Institute. Search on Google or Amazon. Kevin has recently written a book about the making of the film too.

[SantaFeFilmFestival]

I grew up watching silent films in then San Francisco Deaf Community!

[adamzanzie]

I know Brownlow used to be a filmmaker himself. Will "Winstanley" ever be released on DVD?

[turbo6732]

Very interesting gentleman! THANKS!

[BrianAlanVH]

ah Thanks very much part 2 please!