Kent MOMI is pleased to present a unique home-cinema evening with BFI curator Rosie Rowan Taylor, featuring authentic 1920s and ’30s 9.5mm equipment, and a full (mystery!) programme of films as originally projected in this famous amateur format.  This was an incredibly important format, which enabled the transposition of the magic of cinema into private homes several generations before the age of video.  

Rosie Rowan Taylor is a Curator of Fiction Film at the BFI National Archive, and a doctoral researcher at Bristol University, writing on Documenting the History and Culture of the Private Collecting of 9.5mm Film in Britain.  A graduate of the world-leading Selznick School of Film Preservation in Rochester, New York, she was also the co-founder of the important “Southwest Silents” organisation, and a steering group member of “Cinema Rediscovered”, Watershed Bristol.  Rosie's passions include silent Westerns and British cinema, as well (of course!) as 9.5mm film and the wacky world of film collectors.