Archival Spaces 240 Nollywood Uploaded April 10, 2020 For years I was planning a Nollywood film series at UCLA, but the difficulty of researching and finding films in what was a very informal video-based industry proved insurmountable. Nollywood refers of course to the cinema of Nigeria, which only came to prominence in the 1980sContinue reading “240: Nollywood”
Author Archives: Jan-Christopher Horak
239: Czechoslovak Legions in WWI
Archival Spaces 239 The Czechoslovak Legions in World War I Uploaded March 27, 2020 In the past couple years, I have written blogs about my dad, Jerome (Jaromir) Horák, who was both a concentration camp survivor (https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archival-spaces/2014/11/21/international-students-day) and a refugee from Communist Czechoslovakia (https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archival-spaces/2018/08/31/abduction-petr-zenkl), and whose birthday it is today. More recently, I have beenContinue reading “239: Czechoslovak Legions in WWI”
238: A Film Curator does what?
Archival Spaces 238 A Film Curator does what? Uploaded 13 March 2020 I have been seeing the verb to curate with increasing frequency in the unlikeliest places, e.g. I was recently on a Delta Airlines flight where you can now purchase a Delta vacation with “the world’s best hotels and curated experiences.” Apart from theContinue reading “238: A Film Curator does what?”
237: Hunters. Season 1
Archival Spaces 237 Hunters. Season 1 (2020, Amazon Prime) Uploaded 28 February 2020 I have to say that I was put off by the first episode of Hunters, Amazon Prime’s new television series, because the opening in which Under-Secretary Biff Simpson (a member of Jimmy Carter’s cabinet, we later learn) murders his whole family, some neighbors, and guestsContinue reading “237: Hunters. Season 1”
Archival Spaces 