ABSTRACT

If we understand cinema only as commercially produced and exhibited films then we are bound to a silent film history marked by loss and irreversibility. But what if we expand our conception of cinema to the numerous film experiences that happened beyond the commercial screen? This essay poses this question with the hope of initiating a transnational reinterpretation of silent film historiography through noncommercial cinema. I focus on two Catalan amateur filmmakers from the late 1920s and early 1930s, Lluís Gisbert and Llorenç Llobet Gràcia, , to show how silent film practices continued to develop beyond commercial cinema in the films, writings, and screening venues of amateurs throughout the world for decades after the release of the first talkies.

摘要

如果我们只将电影理解为商业制作和放映的电影，那么我们注定会陷入一段以损失和不可逆转为标志的无声电影史。但是，如果我们将电影的概念扩展到商业屏幕之外发生的众多电影体验呢？本文提出这个问题，希望通过非商业电影启动对无声电影史学的跨国重新解释。我专注于 1920 年代末和 1930 年代初的两位加泰罗尼亚业余电影制片人，Lluís Gisbert 和 Llorenç Llobet Gràcia，以展示无声电影实践如何在世界各地业余爱好者的电影、写作和放映场所的电影、写作和放映场所之外继续发展。在第一部对讲机发布几十年后。