Mon. Dec. 18

Among the things we didn't know existed: Silent films made during the sound era. Films between 1970 and 2005, even. Harvard Film Archive has three of them, Malcolm Le Grice's "Berlin Horse," Harun Farocki's "Workers Leaving the Factory" and Guy Maddin's "Cowards on Bended Knee." HFA is calling it "The Silents of Sound." The first is a short about the process of film production and exhibition, the second considers questions of observation and realism in film and re-examines Lumiere's 1895 film, the title of which he's borrowed. The third, comprised of 10 chapters, is party autobiograhical about a Winnipeg hockey star's encounter with an oversexed Chinese woman. Maddin says it's "a lovingly self-loathing peek at myself but only as I would have enough courage to look - through a cracked glass made foggy by hairspray." Starts at 7 p.m. Admission: $8.

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