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Cinema’s First Nasty Women Soundtrack Compilation Vol. 1 features original music by 18+ smashing and diverse women film composers. Produced by the Grammy award winning musician; Terri Lyne Carrington and Dana Reason. This volume was curated from a larger, 99-film, 4-disc Kino Lorber archival collection. Volume one’s scores accompany a selection of rarely-seen silent films from the award-winning Cinema’s First Nasty Women (2022).
Vol. 1 Includes Music by: Terri Lyne Carrington, Esin Aydingoz, Ivanna Cuesta Gonzalez, Gonca Feride Varol, Veronica Leahy, Lorena Ruiz Trejo, Dee Spencer, María Fernanda García Solar, Renee Baker & The Chicago Modern Orchestra Project, Naomi Nakanishi, Camila Cortina Bello, Tracy McMullen, Karen Majewicz with Dreamland Faces; Alicia Svigals, Violin/Noir: Rebecca Sabine/Aaron Ramsey, Edmar Colon, Renée T. Coulombe, Catherine Lee, Peter Valsamis, and Dana Reason
“A mind-expanding endeavor, the set features 99 mostly comic rarities produced from 1898 to 1926, gleaned from archives and libraries across the globe. It is a triumph of scholarship.” — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
Cinema’s First Nasty Women collection recently won best DVD award at the II Cinema Ritrovato DVD Awards in Bologna Italy (2023)!
Voted “Best Silent Film Blu-ray/Dvd” of 2022 in the London Silent Film poll!
The Project
“Cinema’s First Nasty Women is a 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray set featuring rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, anarchic slapstick destruction, and suggestive gender play. The collection includes 99 European and American silent films, produced from 1898 to 1926, sourced from 13 international film archives and libraries, and spotlighting slapstick comediennes and cross-dressing women of the silent screen. The women included are indeed very “nasty”—they organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of the chimney, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The films span a range of genres including slapstick comedy, genteel farce, the trick film, cowboy melodrama, and adventure thriller.”
Project Directors: Laura Horak (Carleton University) and Maggie Hennefeld (University of Minnesota)
Co-Curators: Laura Horak, Maggie Hennefeld, and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi (Eye Filmmuseum)
Producer: Bret Wood (Kino Lorber)
Music Supervisor: Dana Reason (Oregon State University)
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