An exhibition on Chaplin’s first feature-length work as a director, The Kid is being held at the Palais des festivals from July 9th until August 25th.
Visitors will discover the world of this iconic film, and dive into the London of Chaplin’s childhood.
Exhibition curated by Yves Durand, and produced by Chaplins World
Scientific advisor: Arnold Lozano
Set design: Pascal Rodriguez
Graphics: Paula Mutel
Lighting: Raymond Belle
After its success last year in Saint-Raphaël, France, the temporary exhibition Charlie Chaplin and Louis de Funès: Movement and Speech is currently at Chaplin’s World until September 1, 2024.
“Movement and Speech” provides a unique opportunity to trace the lives of Chaplin and De Funès and to discover the diversity of their comic talents. The exhibition includes over 300 photographs and archival materials, as well as video extracts from iconic scenes. Visitors will be greeted by wax figures of De Funès, on loan from the Musée Grévin, and of Chaplin, alongside numerous pieces of memorabilia from both artists’ lives. The interactive exhibition is fun for the whole family, and gives visitors a chance to dance along with the artists in some of their most famous scenes.
In June, there will be live music in the park at Chaplin’s World every weekend! See full programme on Chaplin’s World’s website.
A fantastic new temporary exhibition at Chaplin’s World, “THE FREAK – THE STORY OF A FILM”, curated by Cecilia Cenciarelli & Elena Correra of the Cineteca di Bologna, will open to the public on February 11 and will run until September 24, 2023.
Charles Chaplin’s THE FREAK has been unwittingly misrepresented for half a century. It has long been considered a script on which he laboured dedicatedly and persistently for the last decade of his life and which only time and age finally prevented from realisation. It was not quite like this. In 2016, the Chaplin Office acquired some of Jerry Epstein’s personal and professional archive. A close friend of the family since the 1940s, Epstein was Chaplin’s assistant on LIMELIGHT (1952) and producer of both A KING IN NEW YORK (1957) and A COUNTESS FROM HONG KONG (1967). The revelations of this new, priceless acquisition are brought to light in this new exhibition…
From 18 March to 25 September 2022, Chaplin’s World will pay homage to Chaplin’s first feature-length work as a director, The Kid, with a new exhibition created by Yves Durand and produced by the Charlie Chaplin Museum Foundation. Through the lens of Chaplin’s own childhood, it will give kids and adults alike a chance to discover Chaplin’s life journey, from London slums to worldwide fame.
More details about “The Kid: The Exhibition” on Chaplin’s World’s website.
Chaplin’s World will host screenings of The Kid on:
- 23 March & 16 April 2022 (with Eugene Chaplin), and on
- 19 and 26 April 2022.
On the 80th anniversary year of the release of The Great Dictator we are privileged to present the new exhibition, Story of a small fish in a shark infested ocean - Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator 80 years on, co-produced by Les Rencontres d’Arles, Roy Export S.A.S, L’Institut pour la Photographie, Lille and Chaplin’s World, and curated by Kate Guyonvarch, Sam Stourdzé, Mathilde Thibault-Starzyk.
A selection of hitherto unseen photographs taken on set by Dan James, including the candid shot above of Chaplin and Reginald Gardiner, are a major part of this exhibition. Assistant Director on the film, James was a vital part of the production, working with Chaplin throughout 1938-1940, taking notes to dictation of storylines, ideas and dialogue and even directing some scenes.
The exhibition is being presented for the first time at the Institut pour la Photographie in Lille, from September 10th to November 15th 2020, and it will be at Chaplin’s World in Switzerland next year. Les Rencontres d’Arles 2020 were sadly unable to present the exhibition as planned this summer due to COVID-19.
More information on the Lille exhibition at the Institut pour la Photographie’s website.
To learn more about Dan James, read this newly published article on our website.
A new exhibition, Charlie Chaplin dans l’œil des avant-gardes, opens at the Musée d’Arts de Nantes on October 18, 2019 until February 3, 2020. The exhibition explores the many points of convergence between Chaplin’s cinematography and the arts of the same era, at a time when his films proved without a doubt that a brand new art form had arrived.
The Musée d’Arts de Nantes is hosting a conference on the same subject on December 5 & 6, 2019, with l’Université Paris 1 (Institut Acte) as co-organiser.
Several Chaplin films will be screened at Le Cinématographe in Nantes in October and November.
The exhibition will travel to the Louvre Abu Dhabi in 2020.
The Philharmonie de Paris pays homage to Charlie Chaplin with a new exhibition which focuses on the work of the master of silent film from a musical vantage point, shining the spotlight on the close relation to dance, rhythm and the illusion of speech and sound, all rigorously “orchestrated” in each of his works.
With many film clips, photographs, artworks, rare documents and interactive installations, the new exhibition, The Sound of Charlie Chaplin (French title: Charlie Chaplin : L’Homme-orchestre) is open from October 11, 2019 to January 26, 2020, and offers an in-depth vision adapted to visitors of all age-groups, who will be able to explore the life and work of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century through a new light.
The Philharmonie de Paris also has a special programme of Chaplin-themed concerts from October 9-13, which includes Modern Times and Cineteca di Bologna/Immagine Ritrovata’s new digital restoration of A Woman of Paris with live accompaniment by the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris conducted by Timothy Brock, and more…