382: Abraham Ravett Archival Spaces 382: Abraham Ravett Films in Berlin Uploaded 19 September 2025 I’ve known independent filmmaker Abraham Ravett for 35 years. We met when he came to Rochester in 1990 to screen his late Hampshire College colleague, Tom Joslin’s Blackstar: Autobiography of a Close Friend (1976), one of the first films about everydayContinue reading “382: Abraham Ravett”
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376: Spielberg Film Archive
Archival Spaces 376: Martina Weisz Named Director, Steven Spielberg Film Archive Uploaded 27 June 2025 I first made contact in 1982 with the Steven Spielberg Film Archive in Jerusalem, when I was researching films for my exhibition, “Helmar Lerski: Photographs and Films,” at the Folkwang Museum, Essen, then in Tel Aviv, Munich, Frankfurt, and SanContinue reading “376: Spielberg Film Archive”
348: Academy Museum’s Jewish Film Pioneers
Archival Spaces 348 Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital Uploaded 31 May 2024 Two weeks ago, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Academy Museum opened what most observers called their mea culpa exhibition on Hollywood’s Jewish Pioneers, “Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital,” which occupiesContinue reading “348: Academy Museum’s Jewish Film Pioneers”
300: Film Scholarship Without Films?
Archival Spaces 300 Tel Aviv Symposium: A Film Scholarship Without Films? Uploaded 21 July 2022 Back in the early 1980s, my colleague and friend, Ute Eskildsen, and I organized an exhibition and published a catalog on Helmar Lerski, the New Realist photographer in Weimar Germany and a pioneering filmmaker in Jewish Palestine. Out of thatContinue reading “300: Film Scholarship Without Films?”
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