Archival Spaces 401: Ardiouma Soma Accepts Award Uploaded 26 June 2026 In April, at the 2026 FIAF Conference in Rabat, Morocco, Ardiouma Soma, the retired festival director of the Festival Panafricain du Cinéma et de la Télévision de Ouagadougou (FESPACO) and a representative of the Cinémathèque Africaine de Ouagadougou (CAO), received the prestigious FIAF AwardContinue reading “401: FIAF Prize to Ouagadougou”
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402: F is For Fake
Archival Spaces 402: Film Preservation Hoaxes Uploaded 12 June 2026 Recently, a story circulated on the net that a film archivist at the Carnegie Library in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Rebecca Lang, had found an unlabeled film canister in the basement, which turned out to be a previously unknown silent film from 1923 with Buster Keaton.Continue reading “402: F is For Fake”
400: Novels to Film
Archival Spaces 400: Frank Borzage’s Little Man, What Now? (1934) Uploaded 29 May 2026 I recently read Hans Fallada’s world bestseller, Kleiner Mann – was Nun? (Little Man, What Now?), published in June 1932, just months before Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. The version now available in paperback in German is 25% longer (100 pages)Continue reading “400: Novels to Film”
399: Degenerate Art, the Exhibition
Archival Spaces: Bonfires of the Humanities Uploaded: 15 May 2026 I’ve been combing through my papers before I send them on to the George Eastman Museum, and I stumbled across my review of Degenerate Art. The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany, curated by Stephanie Barron and exhibited in 1991 in Los Angeles, Chicago,Continue reading “399: Degenerate Art, the Exhibition”
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