The M.A. in Film Studies - University of Malta and the Department of Art and Art History - University of Malta, within the Faculty of Arts - University of Malta, are proud to announce the public lecture "Cheating at Caravaggio: Caravaggio and Cinema", by the eminent British film scholar Professor Ian Christie.

The lecture will take place in ALT (Arts Lecture Theatre), Tal-Qroqq Campus, on Thursday 12 April 2018 at 6.00 pm.

Caravaggio's chiaroscuro lighting has been an inspiration to cinematographers for nearly a century, and in 1986 his dangerous life inspired fellow-painter Derek Jarman's provocative biopic. But how many filmmakers have really taken the painter's example to heart? Ian Christie will be offering some suggestions.

Ian Christie is a film historian, curator, broadcaster and consultant, and has been Anniversary Professor of Film and Media History at Birbeck College, University of London, since 1999. He has written and edited books on early cinema, Russian cinema, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Martin Scorsese, and Terry Gilliam and has worked on exhibitions ranging from Twilight of the Tsars (Hayward, 1991) to Modernism: Designing a New World (V&A, 2006). In 2006 he gave the Slade Fine Art lectures at Cambridge University on cinema as the art of the future.

Refreshments will be served after the lecture.