Warning Shadows

Arthur Robison 1923

While entertaining at a country house with a shadow play, a showman senses the passions of the guests beneath the polite surface and hypnotises them with a vision of what could happen if these passions were set free. Warning Shadows, like Bunuel’s ‘The Exterminating Angel’, exposes the dark underside of bourgeois society and is a testament to the subversive libidinal power of cinema. (63 minutes)

Score by Paul Robinson commissioned by the Manchester Festival of Expressionism. 35/16mm

Fritz Lang (1921)

Buster Keaton (1926)

Alfred Hitchcock (1926)

F W Murnau (1922)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (1928)

Jean Cocteau (1932)

Frank Borzage (1927)

Buster Keaton (1926)

Buster Keaton (1927)

Arthur Robison (1923)

René Clair (1925)

Buster Keaton (1920)

René Clair (1924)

Vsevolod Pudovkin (1925)