284: Georg Höllering’s Hortobágy (1937)

Archival Spaces 284 George Höllering’s Hortobágy (1937) Uploaded 10 December 2021 George Höllering’s Hortobágy (1937) is one of those films I have been chasing after for decades and was finally able to see the film at the German Kinemathek’s recent “Film Restored: The Film Heritage Festival,” in a wet-gate transferred digital copy, restored this yearContinue reading “284: Georg Höllering’s Hortobágy (1937)”

283: Gotto’s Passing and Posing

Archival Spaces 283 Lisa Gotto: Passing and Posing Between Black and White Uploaded 26 November 2021 Lisa Gotto, a professor of film theory at the University of Vienna, originally published her book, Passing and Posing. Between Black and White. Calibrating the Color Line in U.S. Cinema (Bielefeld: transcript verlag, 2021) in German in 2006 as Traum und Trauma inContinue reading “283: Gotto’s Passing and Posing”

282: Life Achievment Award

Archival Spaces 282 Martin Koerber‘s Laudatio for Chris Horak Uploaded 12 November 2021 For the first time ever, I have given space in my blog for a guest author. On 4 November 2021, Martin Koerber, Curator at the Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin, and also responsible for the film archive, gave the laudation speech in the KinoContinue reading “282: Life Achievment Award”

281: Carlos Gardel Tango Bar (1935)

Archival Spaces 281 Carlos Gardel’s Tango Bar (1935) Uploaded 29 October 2021 In a few days I will leave be leaving for Berlin, where I will be giving a keynote at the German Kinemathek’s “Film Restored” film festival, which as the title says, highlights new film restorations, and also introduce a film with Tango star Carlos Gardel, ElContinue reading “281: Carlos Gardel Tango Bar (1935)”