Archival Spaces 291 The “Missing Movies” Manifesto Uploaded 18 March 2022 Recently, film director Nancy Savoca and screenwriting partner, Richard Guay realized that their 1993 film, Household Saints, could not be screened at Columbia University, because of copyright problems. Nancy eventually worked with her lawyer, Susan Bodine, and Ira Deutchman, the film’s original distributor, toContinue reading “291: Missing Movies”
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263: Jaimie Baron: Reuse, Misuse, Abuse
Archival Spaces 263 Jaimie Baron: Reuse, Misuse, Abuse Uploaded 19 February 2021 In her first book, The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History (2014), Jaimie Baron analyzes the effects of appropriating archival film and video footage on historical representation. How do the meanings of archival images change when they are inserted into new contexts? InContinue reading “263: Jaimie Baron: Reuse, Misuse, Abuse”
258: Edward Stratmann (1953-2020)
Archival Spaces 258 Edward Stratmann (1953-2020) Uploaded 17 December 20 Edward Stratmann, my colleague and friend, has died. His distinguished career in film archiving began almost at the same moment in the same place as mine, making us life-long fellow travelers on a remarkable professional journey into what was then still a field in itsContinue reading “258: Edward Stratmann (1953-2020)”
247: Cinemateca Brasileira in Crisis
Archival Spaces 247 Cinemateca Brasileira in Crisis Downloaded 17 July 2020 Earlier this year in an article in The Journal of Film Preservation (No. 102, 2020), I noted the following: “While archives and libraries are perceived by the general population to be bastions of stability, their existence and mandate to conserve and preserve consciously welded together, theContinue reading “247: Cinemateca Brasileira in Crisis”
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