404:  Czech Avant-Garde

Archival Spaces 404: Voskovec & Werich Uploaded 24 July 2026 My Dad grew up in Prague in the 1930s, a teenager. He later raved to me about Voskovec and Werich, who he had seen both on stage at the Liberated Theatre, and in the cinema. I thought about him when I recently pulled out ofContinue reading “404:  Czech Avant-Garde”

394: 1960’s Avant-garde Film Program

Archival Spaces 394 Curating a 1960s Avant-Garde Program Uploaded 6 March 2026 For me, film archival work has always included curatorship through programming, making historical and therefore archival objects visible and accessible. While curator of the film department in what is now called the George Eastman Museum, I introduced this program at a “1960s photography”Continue reading “394: 1960’s Avant-garde Film Program”

382: Abraham Ravett

382: Abraham Ravett Archival Spaces 382: Abraham Ravett Films in Berlin Uploaded 19 September 2025 I’ve known independent filmmaker Abraham Ravett for 35 years. We met when he came to Rochester in 1990 to screen his late Hampshire College colleague, Tom Joslin’s Blackstar: Autobiography of a Close Friend (1976), one of the first films about everydayContinue reading “382: Abraham Ravett”