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)”

233: Robert Frank (1924-2019)

Archival Spaces 233 Jan-Christopher Horak This is the first blog on my new website, but is a continuation of a blog I have been writing for over ten years. I started it on an Ithaca College website in 2009 at the invitation of my colleague Patty Zimmermann. In 2011, I moved it to the UCLAContinue reading “233: Robert Frank (1924-2019)”