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”
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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)“
264: Restored Avant-Garde Films (NL)
Archival Spaces 264 Restored Avant-Garde Films from the Netherlands Uploaded 5 March 2021 Between February 24 and March 9, 2021, the Eye Museum, Amsterdam and Anthology Film Archives, New York, are presenting a streamed film program, “THERE ARE NO RULES!: RESTORED AND REVISITED AVANT-GARDE FILMS FROM THE NETHERLANDS,” co-curated by Simona Monizza, Mark-Paul Meyer andContinue reading “264: Restored Avant-Garde Films (NL)”
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