Free Film Festival Tomorrow At The Nest!

This April, The NEST goes silent for the fourth edition of our monthly Eye See festival. Guest curator and film-buff Kimani Waweru has compiled a selection of the best and most influential films of the silent era.

I just shared with you a movie that The Nest will be screening this evening. Read about Rust and bone here.

Read about that here, and make a point to show up. Should you however miss it, there’s better news below. They have a festival titled ‘Eye See Silence.’Here’s the thing, you have to RSVP via eventsbrite on their site. Here is the link. These are the event details, I have shared them verbatim. Time is from 10.00 am to 8.30 pm.

‘Silent-era filmmakers produced numerous masterpieces and it is through these films that the world first came to love movies. In a remarkably short time after the birth of movies, these filmmakers developed all the techniques – except marrying sound to film print – that would make cinema its own art form. They have influenced every generation of filmmakers and continue to inspire audiences nearly a century after they were made.

Join us at the NEST on Saturday, April 27th for Eye See Silence – a tribute to some of the great silent-era filmmakers that gave birth to the language of film-making as we know it today.

PROGRAM

10:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Metropolis (1927)
12:35 PM – 1:45 PM: The Cabinet of Dr. Calgari (1920)
BREAK
2:10 PM – 3:45 PM: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
3:45 PM – 4:05 PM: Un Chien Andalou (1929)
BREAK
4:10 PM – 5:20 PM: Battleship Potemkin (1925)
5:20 PM – 5:35 PM: A Trip to the Moon (1902)
5:35 PM – 6:55 PM: The General (1926)
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM: City Lights (1931)’

Please RSVP.

Directions:

House Number 4,
Jabavu Maisonettes (directly opposite the Kilimani Police Station)
Jabavu Road.

If you’re using public transport, use route number 46, disembark at the Kwality bus-stop and walk up the Cabro’d Mtito Andei Road (sometimes confusingly referred to as Rose Avenue). Turn left at the junction of Mtito Andei Road and Jabavu Road and walk a few meters to Jabavu Maisonettes.