About our guests
Stephen Horne
Stephen Horne is a silent film accompanist and composer. Principally a pianist, he also incorporates flute, accordion and percussion into his performances, sometimes playing instruments simultaneously. He performs internationally at festivals including Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Il Cinema Ritrovato and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. He has composed scores for The First Born, The Manxman and Stella Dallas, alongside numerous recordings for silent film releases.
Marketa Uhlirova
Marketa Uhlirova is the Director of the Fashion in Film Festival. An art historian, curator and writer, she explores the intersections between fashion, art, and the moving image. She has curated film programmes for arts and cinema venues internationally and published books including the award-winning Birds of Paradise: Costume as Cinematic Spectacle (2013). Her recent projects include the article ‘The Outskirts: Film at the Edges of Fashion’ and the co-curated film season GROUNDED: Fashion’s Entanglements with Nature.
Émilie Cauquy
Émilie Cauquy is responsible for promoting the film collection of the Cinémathèque française. As project manager for the Henri VOD platform, she has created enhanced projections in the form of ciné-spectacles, centred on Dulac, Musidora and Méliès and, additionally, has curated programmes on Colette, Musidora, Marie Epstein and Nicole Vedrès for the II Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna. Also involved in DVD publishing, she co-produced the Jean Epstein box set for Potemkine.
