About the Exhibition
Photos by Rupert Sagar-Musgrave
On June 8 2010, over one hundred invited guests and BAFTA members met in the BAFTA members lounge to celebrate the opening of . Inspired by the work of the early film theorist B茅la Bal谩zs, the exhibition uses text-image collages to explore the relationship between the image in silent and early sound cinema, and Bal谩zs鈥檚 writings on expressive elements of the film language including the close-up, montage, sound, colour, lighting, camera set-up, and screen performance. The event doubled as a book launch for a new translation of Bal谩zs鈥檚 early writings, B茅la Bal谩zs: Early Film Theory (ed. Erica Carter, transl. Rodney Livingstone) (Berghahn Books, 2010). The evening culminated in a screening of Casablanca (1942), a film presented in opening remarks by Erica Carter as a homage to that generation of exile film artists which numbered amongst its ranks both Bal谩zs, and the Casablanca director and fellow Hungarian exile Michael Curtiz.