Archival Spaces 292 Film Erotica in Papal Film Archives Uploaded 1 April 2022 My wife and I have been in Rome for the past ten days. Since this is not our first trip to Rome, we have forgone most of the Roman antiquities sites, and have focused on visiting libraries, archives, and private collections ofContinue reading “292: Film Erotica”
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291: Missing Movies
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”
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)”
