Episode Details

Thomas Christensen is Curator at the Danish Film Institute, so it stands to reason that all of his selections hail from Denmark. All but one of them come in at “feature length” (and from the same director) as well, reflecting the country’s place in advancing film grammar, subjects, and character psychology at a crucial transitional time.

Thomas also serves on the Executive Committee of the European Cinematheque Association and served on the FIAF Technical Commission from 2003 to 2015. He has recently been involved in a project digitizing all surviving Danish silent films from 1896 to 1929.

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Films and resources mentioned:

• The Black Dream (1911) - Urban Gad
• Temptations of a Great City (1911) - August Blom
• In the Hands of Imposters (1911) - August Blom
• The Price of Beauty (1911) - August Blom
• The Girl Behind the Counter (1911) - August Blom
• The Execution (1903) - Peter Elfelt
• The Abyss (1910) - Urban Gad
• L’Inferno (1911) - Francesco Bertolini, Giuseppe de Liguoro, and Adolfo Padovan
• Lion Hunting (1907) - Viggo Larsen
• The Ballet Dancer (1911) - August Blom
• The Two Gold Diggers (1909) - Viggo Larsen
• The White Slave Trade (1910) - Alfred Cohn
• The White Slave Trade (1910) - August Blom
• The Dangerous Age (1927) - Eugen Illés
• Double Indemnity (1944) - Billy Wilder
• The Clown (1917) - A.W. Sandberg
• Love One Another (1922) - Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Silent Film Festival 2026