Date: 29 October 2010
Location: Arnolfini, Bristol
Time: 18:00

10 years ago Arnolfini hosted Bristol Silent�s first event, a double bill of Louise Brooks films.

To mark this anniversary, Bristol Festival of Ideas in collaboration Arnolfini present an evening celebrating the life and work of this extraordinary silent screen actress. Brooks has become a genuine icon of cinema, her legacy shaped by her mesmerising work in a handful of European films made in the late twenties.

DIARY OF A LOST GIRL confirmed Pabst's artistry as one of the great directors of the silent period and established Brooks as an "actress of brilliance, a luminescent personality and a beauty unparalleled in screen history." (Kevin Brownlow). Brooks plays Thymian who, raped by her father�s assistant, gives birth to an illegitimate child. When she refuses to marry him she is forced to leave the baby and is sent to a strict reform school for wayward girls. Dir. GW Pasbt, Germany, 1929 (114mins)

This special event will be preceded by the illuminating documentary, Arena: Lousie Brooks (Dir. Leacock, UK, 1986) 55m
Directed by Richard Leacock, fascinating study aired shortly after Brooks death and features rare Interviews with Brooks, in which she talks of her days in
Paris and Berlin and her experiences of Hollywood, with extracts from her films.

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