Archival Spaces 361 Accidental Archivism: Shaping Cinema’s Futures with Remnants of the Past Uploaded 29 November 2024 As anyone knows, who has been following the fortunes of AMIA (Association of Moving Images), film preservation before the 1980s was the purview of major, mostly state-funded, national film archives, which felt responsible mainly for fiction feature films.Continue reading “361: Accidental Archivism”
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360: Euthanasia in Film
Archival Spaces 360 Ich klage an / I accuse (1941) Uploaded 15 November 2024 My German-born mother once confessed to me that she was in favor of mercy killing if someone was terminally ill because as a teenager in Cologne, she had seen Ich klage an (1941), Wolfgang Liebeneiner’s propagandistic endorsement of euthanasia, lavishly producedContinue reading “360: Euthanasia in Film”
359: Pordenone Silent Films
Archival Spaces 359 Giornate del cinema muto/online Uploaded 1 November 2024 This year’s Giornate del cinema muto again offered a small selection of ten feature films from the festival, as well as selected shorts, mostly little or never seen films from countries as diverse as France, Uzbekistan, Cuba, Germany, Mexico, and the USA. The filmsContinue reading “359: Pordenone Silent Films”
358: Robert Rosen, R.I.P.
Archival Spaces 358 Robert Rosen (1940-2024) Uploaded 18 October 2024 Robert Rosen, the former Dean of UCLA’s School of Theatre Film and Television(TFT), and Director of UCLA Film & Television Archive (FTVA), passed away on 2 October in Los Angeles. I owed a huge debt of gratitude to Bob, who hired me as Director ofContinue reading “358: Robert Rosen, R.I.P.”
