Description: Analyzes the visual and cultural context of Europe's first feature films from 19th century painting to pictorial photography
Brief description: Vito Adriaensens is a scholar and filmmaker. He is currently Assistant Professor of Experimental Film and Media at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Review Quotes: Historiographically informed and buttressed by archival sources, Vito Adriaensens' intermedial investigation of silent European cinema from the 1910s sheds new light on underexplored producers of the era, primarily Gaumont and Nordisk. The cultural poetics approach anchoring Velvet Curtains and Gilded Frames reminds us that we still have much to learn about this key period.--Charlie Keil, University of Toronto