Cinema's First Nasty Women

21/10/2025

We are super fans of Valerio Greco! He is the festival photographer of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto who takes many, extremely beautiful photos that are widely shared and appreciated (including the annual Pordenone "family photo")!! Please show your love for Valerio Greco Photography by buying him a coffee -- he needs lots of caffeine so he can continue to be in ten places at once, which is the only possible explanation for how he manages to capture each screening from every perspective in the theater. (We love you Valerio!) ❤️📸

Ciao 👋 Se ti sono piaciuti i miei contenuti e vorrai offrirmi un caffè - o come direbbe l'agente speciale Dale Cooper “A damn fine cup of coffee” - per sostenere i miei progetti, te ne sarei grato! ❤️

20/10/2025

Thanks be to Valerio Greco for these gorgeous photos of the Nasty Women Costume Design lecture at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto!!! 🎞🧯😍

If you missed it, it's also archived online on the GCM YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IEG2QroxJ0

15/10/2025

If you missed the UCLA Copley lecture on *Costume Design in Silent Cinema* in Pordenone this year -- "Dressed for Chaos: Costumes, Nasty Women, and Social Change" -- you're in luck!!! The whole thing was recorded and posted on Le Giornate del Cinema Muto's YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IEG2QroxJ0

*The camera is a bit far away and the audio quality is not stellar, but the usual rules of dressing for chaos still apply to streaming.

2022 saw the launch of an annual lecture series devoted to costumedesign in silent film conceived by Deborah Nadoolman Landis, notedcostume designer, histori...

12/10/2025

I awoke with good intentions but encountered even better conversations. And thus, my film viewing on this, the final day of the 44th Giornate del Cinema Muto, began at midday, with Koko the Clown. …

10/10/2025

Thanks everyone who joined us yesterday at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto for "Dressed for Chaos: Costumes, Nasty Women, and Social Change" -- the UCLA David C. Copley Center Lecture on "Costume Design and Silent Cinema" presented by the curatorial triumvirate of Cinema's First Nasty Women: Elif Kaynakci, Maggie Hennefeld, & Laura Horak!! Costumes establish our identity, get weaponized against the patriarchy, and allow us to experiment with new ways of belonging in the world. Thanks especially to Deborah Nadoolman Landis for inviting us to do this. ❤️🎞👠🎩🔥

10/10/2025

"A real highlight of the day arrived with the UCLA David C. Copley Lecture on Costume Design and Silent Cinema, this year presented by the Nasty Women Triumvirate: Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçı. The theme was Dressed for Chaos: Costumes, Nasty Women and Social Change. But what does that mean? Well, it means a fun, informative, often rousing hour in the company of silent comediennes, and three women who dearly love them." ❤️🎞🌂🎩

Feature films? What a concept. They don’t always seem to be the dominant form here at Pordenone. But this afternoon was an exception to that rule, with a triple-bill of four-to-six-reelers back to …

09/10/2025

It's almost time to DRESS FOR CHAOS (👗🧨) which is both a pro-tip and an accurate description of the NASTY WOMEN COSTUME LECTURE... *today* at 6pm at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordeone!! Co-delivered by the curators of Cinema's First Nasty Women -- Elif Kaynakci, Maggie Hennefeld, and Laura Horak. 🎞️🎊 Dress code = chaotic-casual.

https://www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/calendario-091025/

This annual lecture series on Silent Film Costume Design is conceived of and coordinated by Deborah Nadoolman Landis, Director of the David C. Copley Center for Costume Design at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television.

09/10/2025

It may seem that the Giornate is in its own bubble, a hundred years or more removed from the real world, wrapped up in the fashions and the fads of the past. But we’re still looking out at th…