376: Spielberg Film Archive

Archival Spaces 376: Martina Weisz Named Director, Steven Spielberg Film Archive Uploaded 27 June 2025 I first made contact in 1982 with the Steven Spielberg Film Archive in Jerusalem, when I was researching films for my exhibition, “Helmar Lerski: Photographs and Films,” at the Folkwang Museum, Essen, then in Tel Aviv, Munich, Frankfurt, and SanContinue reading “376: Spielberg Film Archive”

375: Smuggling Art

375: My career as an Art Smuggler Archival Spaces 375 Uploaded  13 June 2025 In Spring 1979 I was working as a free-lance curator on the exhibition, “Film und Foto der zwanziger Jahre/Film and Photo in the 1920s,” for the Würtembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart, Germany. At the time I was a year into my PhD.Continue reading “375: Smuggling Art”

374: Alraune

Archival Spaces 374: Hanns Heinz Ewers Novel, Alraune (1911) Uploaded 30 May 2025 A couple of months ago, I recorded a Blu-ray commentary for the 1927 German horror film, Alraune, directed by Henryk Galeen, and distributed in America as Daughter of Destiny. The Blu-ray will be released by Deaf Crocodile around Halloween. The script byContinue reading “374: Alraune”

373:  IMAX à la 1900

Archival Spaces 373: American Biograph Co. 68mm Films Added to UNESCO Register Uploaded 16 May 2025 A month ago, the British Film Institute, London, and Holland’s Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, announced in a joint press release that their unique collection of 300 68mm films from the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company had been added to UNESCO’s International MemoryContinue reading “373:  IMAX à la 1900”