Filmpodium, a repertory cinema operated by the Mayor of Zurich’s Office of Cultural Affairs, screens around 350 different films per year. Thematic cycles and retrospectives of classic works of cinema run side-by-side with premieres of distinctive ...
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Film-Concert: Autumn Mists & The Three-Sided Ice
Live music: IOKOI with Mara Miccichè (electronics, vocals)
As the defining stylistic movement of the silent film era, what is often referred to as ‘French Impressionism’ had a massive influence on the cinema of the subsequent period. With Brumes d’automne and La glace à trois faces, our programme brings together two outstanding examples that provided important impetus for the cinematic portrayal of subjective moods. Whilst Kirsanoff’s short film manages to express the inner worlds of its female character entirely without a plot, Epstein embeds her within a convoluted narrative structure that nonchalantly shifts between different temporal and spatial planes. Three women are pining for the same frivolous bon vivant. Can this end well? (dw)
In cooperation with the IOIC (Institute of Incoherent Cinematography)
Brumes d’automne / 10 / b&w / DCP / Silent film
Director: Dimitri Kirsanoff
Screenplay: Dimitri Kirsanoff
Cinematography: Jean de Miéville
Cast: Nadia Sibirskaïa
La glace à trois faces / 39 / b&w / DCP / Silent film with intertitles
Director: Jean Epstein
Screenplay: Jean Epstein
Author: Paul Morand
Cinematography: Marcel Eywinger
Cast: Jeanne Helbling (Lucie), Suzy Pierson (Athalia), Olga Day (Pearl), René Ferté (the man)
As the defining stylistic movement of the silent film era, what is often referred to as ‘French Impressionism’ had a massive influence on the cinema of the subsequent period. With Brumes d’automne and La glace à trois faces, our programme brings together two outstanding examples that provided important impetus for the cinematic portrayal of subjective moods. Whilst Kirsanoff’s short film manages to express the inner worlds of its female character entirely without a plot, Epstein embeds her within a convoluted narrative structure that nonchalantly shifts between different temporal and spatial planes. Three women are pining for the same frivolous bon vivant. Can this end well? (dw)
In cooperation with the IOIC (Institute of Incoherent Cinematography)
Brumes d’automne / 10 / b&w / DCP / Silent film
Director: Dimitri Kirsanoff
Screenplay: Dimitri Kirsanoff
Cinematography: Jean de Miéville
Cast: Nadia Sibirskaïa
La glace à trois faces / 39 / b&w / DCP / Silent film with intertitles
Director: Jean Epstein
Screenplay: Jean Epstein
Author: Paul Morand
Cinematography: Marcel Eywinger
Cast: Jeanne Helbling (Lucie), Suzy Pierson (Athalia), Olga Day (Pearl), René Ferté (the man)
To this organizer's website
Thursday, October 29, 2026
17:45 - 18:34 o'clock
Filmpodium Kino
Nüschelerstrasse 11
8001 Zürich
+41 (0)44 415 33 66
info@filmpodium.ch
Accessibility:
Infos Zugänglichkeit:
The cinema is accessible for wheelchairs and equipped with a wireless assistive listening system.
