Archival Spaces 409: Stummfilmtage Bonn 2026 Uploaded 2 October 2026 This is the final installment of my report on this year’s Silent Film Festival in Bonn, Germany. Thursday’s program (8/20/26) began with two religiously themed films, Béhula (1922) and L’Inferno (1911). The former is an exceedingly rare 1920s film from India, a country where probably 97%Continue reading “409: Bonn Silent Film Festival III”
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386: Giornate del cinema muto
Archival Spaces 386: Pordenone’s Days of Silent Film, 2 – 12 October 2025 Uploaded 14 November 2025 It was the first time in six years I was back in Pordenone, Italy, for the Giornate del cinema muto, having been forbidden by the powers that be at UCLA to travel to the oldest silent film festivalContinue reading “386: Giornate del cinema muto”
334: Ivo Blom’s Cabiria…
Archival Spaces 334 Ivo Blom’s Quo Vadis?, Cabiria and the Archaeologists Uploaded 10 November 2023 In 2005, I published an article, “The Strange Case of the Fall of Jerusalem,” which won the Katherine Singer Essay Award and dealt with the archival identification of a biblically-themed film that was only known by its American States RightsContinue reading “334: Ivo Blom’s Cabiria…”
