Archival Spaces 391 Monograph: People On Sunday Uploaded 23 January 2026 For years, I have been teaching a German film history course. One of the films I have consistently screened is Robert Siodmak’s Menschen am Sonntag/People on Sunday (1929), not only because it is my favorite film of the late Weimar Republic, but also becauseContinue reading “391: People On Sunday”
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375: Smuggling Art
375: My career as an Art Smuggler Archival Spaces 375 Uploaded 13 June 2025 In Spring 1979 I was working as a free-lance curator on the exhibition, “Film und Foto der zwanziger Jahre/Film and Photo in the 1920s,” for the Würtembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart, Germany. At the time I was a year into my PhD.Continue reading “375: Smuggling Art”
356 Bonn Silent Film Fest
Archival Spaces 356 Bonn Silent Film Festival Uploaded 20 September 2024 The 40th iteration of the Bonn International Silent Film Festival took place from 8 – 18 August 2024. Over eleven Summer evenings, the open-air festival screened twenty-two silent features and shorts from eleven countries, always accompanied by live musical performances. As in the pastContinue reading “356 Bonn Silent Film Fest”
303: Three Minutes. A Lengthening (2022)
Archival Spaces 303 Three Minutes. A Lengthening (2022) Uploaded 2 September 2022 In the Summer of 1990, after the fall of Communism, I visited Poland for the first time, training docents for a United States Information Agency exhibit on American cinema in Katowice. On a free day, I asked my driver to take me toContinue reading “303: Three Minutes. A Lengthening (2022)“
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