Archival Spaces 361 Accidental Archivism: Shaping Cinema’s Futures with Remnants of the Past Uploaded 29 November 2024 As anyone knows, who has been following the fortunes of AMIA (Association of Moving Images), film preservation before the 1980s was the purview of major, mostly state-funded, national film archives, which felt responsible mainly for fiction feature films.Continue reading “361: Accidental Archivism”
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358: Robert Rosen, R.I.P.
Archival Spaces 358 Robert Rosen (1940-2024) Uploaded 18 October 2024 Robert Rosen, the former Dean of UCLA’s School of Theatre Film and Television(TFT), and Director of UCLA Film & Television Archive (FTVA), passed away on 2 October in Los Angeles. I owed a huge debt of gratitude to Bob, who hired me as Director ofContinue reading “358: Robert Rosen, R.I.P.”
342: R.I.P. Wolfgang Klaue
Archival Spaces 342 Wolfgang Klaue (1935-2024) Uploaded 8 March 2024 Wolfgang Klaue, the former director of the Stattliches Filmarchiv der DDR (SFA) and, after German reunification, the founding director of the DEFA Stiftung, died on 16 February. He was a giant in the field of film preservation, winning a UNESCO Silver Medal in 1988, founding theContinue reading “342: R.I.P. Wolfgang Klaue”
339: Kinemathek Update
Archival Spaces 339 Deutsche Kinemathek Update Uploaded 26 January 2024 The news took a little longer to arrive than initially indicated in my Archival Spaces 319 blog (https://archivalspaces.com/2023/04/14/319-deutsche-kinemathek/)), but it is good, indeed. As reported in April 2023, the Deutsche Kinemathek and Museum für Film und Fernsehen on Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz had lost its leaseContinue reading “339: Kinemathek Update”
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