Archival Spaces 280 Giornate del Cinema Muto 2021 Online Uploaded 15 October 2021 This is the 40th anniversary of what is now the oldest silent film festival in the world. I attended my first Giornate del cinema muto in Pordenone in 1988, when I accepted the Jean Mitry Award in the name of George Pratt, theContinue reading “280: Giornate del cinema muto Online”
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277: Bonn Silent Film Festival
Archival Spaces 277 Bonn Silent Film Festival: Panel Discussion Uploaded 3 September 2021 Between August 12 and August 22, 2021, the 37th International Silent Film Festival – Internationalen Stummfilmtage – Bonner Sommerkino – was held in Bonn, Germany, co-organized by the Förderverein Filmkultur Bonn e.V. The live version of the Festival has taken place forContinue reading “277: Bonn Silent Film Festival”
275: Marriage in the Shadows (1947)
Archival Spaces 275 Marriage in the Shadows (1947, Kurt Maetzig) Uploaded 6 August 2021 Although I have been studying German cinema for decades, I’m less familiar with films from the German Democratic Republic, simply because for a long time, it was just harder to see those films. The DEFA (Deutsche Film Aktiengesellschaft) was formed in 1946Continue reading “275: Marriage in the Shadows (1947)”
271: Ozaphan 16mm
Archival Spaces 271 Ozaphan, 16mm on Cellophane Uploaded 11 June 2021 Ozaphan was a non-flammable safety film format marketed for home use in France and Germany from the late 1920s to the 1950s, which had the peculiarity that it neither used a conventional photographic emulsion, nor was its base di-acetate. Rather, Ozaphan employed a systemContinue reading “271: Ozaphan 16mm”
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