Archival Spaces 266 Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism Uploaded 2 April 2021 Earlier this week, I participated in an online book launch at the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (https://www.ithaca.edu/finger-lakes-environmental-film-festival) for Terri Simone Francis’s book, Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism (Indiana University Press, 2021). I was invited to be on the panel because as a young curator at GeorgeContinue reading “266: Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism”
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255: Leo Hurwitz’s Strange Victory
Archival Spaces 255 CINE SALON BEYOND with Leo Hurwitz’s Strange Victory (1948) Uploaded 6 November 2020 Dartmouth’s Film and Media Studies Department recently sponsored a CINE SALON BEYOND (online) with host Bruce Posner and Tom Hurwitz, the award-winning documentary filmmaker who is the son of Leo Hurwitz. The event included clips from Tom’s soon-to-be-released Can You Bring It? (2020),Continue reading “255: Leo Hurwitz’s Strange Victory”
235: Larry Clark’s Passing Through
Archival Spaces 235 Larry Clark’s masterpiece Passing Through Uploaded 15 February 2020 On February 13, UCLA’s Melnitz movies screened Larry Clark’s thesis film Passing Through (1977) with Larry Clark in attendance,. It was the first time I had seen Larry since we restored the film for our L.A. Rebellion film program back in 2011 and the first timeContinue reading “235: Larry Clark’s Passing Through”