Archival Spaces 412: Czech Avant-garde Film in the 1930s Uploaded 13 November 2026 Two programs at the Giornate del cinema muto, organized by the Czech National Film Archive in Prague, were dedicated to “the Czech Avant-Garde” from the 1930s, curated by Sylva Poláková, Alena Horníčková, and Jiří Horníček. In the catalogue, the authors mention thatContinue reading “412: Giornate del cinema muto II”
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405: Voskovec & Werich 2
Archival Spaces 405: The World Belongs to Us (1937) Uploaded 7 August 2026 In my last blog, I discussed the films of the Czech comedy team, Jiří Voskovec & Jan Werich, available on a 4-disc-set, produced by the Czech National Film Archive, now apparently out of print. I wanted to spend more time discussing theContinue reading “405: Voskovec & Werich 2”
390: United States Information Agency
Archival Spaces 390 My Short Government Career Uploaded 9 January 2026 In the Fall of 1987, I received a call from David Paul, a producer at the United States Information Agency, asking if I could compile for them a list of German Academy Award winners. No problem. He followed up with a letter a monthContinue reading “390: United States Information Agency”
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”
