More worth your time at the same venue, plus a few nearby picks.
MUSIC
Cine-show: Inventions Unusual
From electricity to aviation and cinema itself, explore the wild inventions that defined the 19th and 20th centuries through silent film and live music.
CINEMA
Workshop: Tell Me About Film
Cinema was born from photographic film stock. Despite the digital shift, understanding this chemical foundation remains essential to grasping how film works.
KIDS
Workshop: Film Puzzle
Children edit their own film using images from Pathé silent archives. The Mash up table lets them explore the surreal worlds of early comedians, heroes and fantasy creatures.
CLASSIC
Workshop: Create the Sounds
Silent film relied on live sound effects and dialogue from performers. Now audiences create their own sound design, discovering infinite interpretations of the same film.
CINEMA
Workshop: All in Colour
From its inception, cinema sought colour through hand-painting, stencil colouring, tinting and toning. These techniques enhanced reality and created imaginative worlds.
CLASSIC
Fun screening: A Thousand and One Wonders
Early cinema was far from dull and grey. This special screening reveals the magic and spectacle of silent film's first decades, delivering visual wonder.
EXHIBITIONS
Matisse, 1941-1954
At Grand Palais, this exhibition illuminates Matisse's prolific final years, presenting three hundred works of unprecedented vitality: drawings, cut gouaches, illustrated books, textiles, and stained glass.
EXHIBITIONS
Nan Goldin. This Will Not End Well
Nan Goldin presents her first French retrospective of video work and slideshows - 'films made of photographs'. Grand Palais showcases an intimate journey through her life, friendships, loves and activism.
