386: Giornate del cinema muto

Archival Spaces 386: Pordenone’s Days of Silent Film, 2 – 12 October 2025 Uploaded 14 November 2025 It was the first time in six years I was back in Pordenone, Italy, for the Giornate del cinema muto, having been forbidden by the powers that be at UCLA to travel to the oldest silent film festivalContinue reading “386: Giornate del cinema muto”

295: SFSFF

Archival Spaces 295 San Francisco Silent Film Festival Uploaded 13 May 2022 The San Francisco Silent Film Festival celebrated its 25th Anniversary, 5-11 May 2022, and its first live iteration since before the pandemic in 2019. It may also be the last SFSFF at the storied Castro Theater, which the owners -rumor has it –Continue reading “295: SFSFF”

294: Kyiv Film Archive in War

Archival Spaces 294 Ukrainian Film Archives in Peril Uploaded 29 April 2022 When the Giornate del cinema muto got its start in 1982 in Gemona, Italy, it was partially in response to a devastating earthquake that had rocked the area of Friuli in 1976, leaving its residents shell-shocked. I was reminded of that fact whenContinue reading “294: Kyiv Film Archive in War”