320: Orphans Film Symposium

Archival Spaces 320 Orphan Film Symposium: All-Television Edition Uploaded 28 April 2023 For the first time since May 2011, UCLA Film & Television Archive hosted the Orphan Film Symposium with New York University, again at the Billy Wilder Theater. Co-curated by Orphans founder and NYU professor Dan Streible and John H. Mitchell Curator of TelevisionContinue reading “320: Orphans Film Symposium”

319: Deutsche Kinemathek

Archival Spaces 319 Deutsche Kinemathek in Peril Uploaded 14 April 2023 While in Berlin in February for the Berlinale, I heard the first disturbing reports that the Deutsche Kinemathek, one of Germany’s oldest film archives will lose its space in 2025 in the Sony Building, where it has maintained offices, archives, and the Museum forContinue reading “319: Deutsche Kinemathek”

318: Richard Scheckman

Archival Spaces 318 Richard Scheckman in Memoriam Uploaded 31 March 2023 I met Ricky Scheckman in the mid-1980s when I first attended the Syracuse Cinefest, having recently become a curator at George Eastman Museum in Rochester. Organized by the Syracuse Cinephile Society, the long weekend event had been founded by Phil Serling in 1980, andContinue reading “318: Richard Scheckman”

317: Berlinale II

Archival Spaces 317 Berlinale II Uploaded 17 March 2023 Because of the closing of two major venues around the Potsdamerplatz, the Festival’s previous geographic center, this year’s Berlinale was a challenge, just in terms of getting from one theatre to the next, since they were spread out all over town, from the Kurfurstendam in theContinue reading “317: Berlinale II”