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”

338: The Kawakita Diaries

Archival Spaces 338 The Kawakita Diaries 1932 Uploaded 15 January 2024 In April 1993, I was invited by my colleague (and now long-time friend), Hisashi Okajima of the Film Center at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, to give the opening lecture for their three-month film program, “American Films – The Little Known.”Continue reading “338: The Kawakita Diaries”