Avant-Garde Masters Film-Preservation Grants
posted February 15, 2011
The National Film Preservation Foundation has invited proposals for its Avant-Garde Masters film preservation grant program. Interested archives should register by March 25 2011. Final applications are due April 29 2011. This cash grant, made possible by The Film Foundation, supports the preservation of a film or films by a single filmmaker or cinematic movement
Hidden Cinema of the Southwest and Mexico
posted February 15, 2011
Just a reminder that next week in Tucson, whose average daytime temperature in February is 71F, the Hidden Cinema of the Southwest and Mexico symposium will take place. The symposium is a one-day event, but between two nights of film screenings, February 25-26 2011. The symposium focuses on how and why amateur, industrial, educational, and
Berkeley Silent-Film Conference
posted February 13, 2011
The Department of Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley presents The First International Berkeley Conference on Silent Cinema, with a theme of Cinema Across Media: The 1920s, running February 24–26 2011. The international, interdisciplinary conference will include plenary speeches, roundtables, concurrent panels, and a series of silent film screenings with live musical
Silent Rarities Lovingly Preserved
posted February 12, 2011
Fans of animation have their Comic-Con, sure, but for cineastes there are geek-chic events like Cinecon, Slapsticon, Cinesation, Cinevent, and – over four days each March in wintry Syracuse, New York – Cinefest. Rachel Price talks to Joseph Yranski about this year’s event.
Cinefest: Silent Rarities Lovingly Presented
posted February 12, 2011
Fans of animation have their Comic-Con, sure, but for cineastes there are geek-chic events like Cinecon, Slapsticon, Cinesation, Cinevent, and – over four days each March in wintry Syracuse, New York – Cinefest.
What Illness Looks Like
posted January 17, 2011
Thanks to a small band of advocates, the fields of medical and public-health history have been paying increasing attention to the visual – to the vast assortment of still and moving images that illustrate and in many cases constitute those histories. In a new book, Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture (University of Minnesota
The Poet of British Film
posted January 13, 2011
Today in the Shorts section of Moving Image Archive News, Keith Beattie describes how he prepared his study of the British director, Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950), who has been described as the foremost poet of British cinema for his documentary films of Britain at peace and war.
The Poet of British Film
posted January 13, 2011
The British director, Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950), has been described as the foremost poet of British cinema for his documentary films of Britain at peace and war, and for a range of representational approaches that transcended accepted notions of wartime propaganda and revised the strict codes of British documentary film of the 1930s and 1940s. Jennings,
Metabolic Studio Seeks Digital Archivist
posted January 10, 2011
Metabolic Studio is looking for a digital archivist. Metabolic is a project of the Annenberg Foundation led by Lauren Bon an artist and director of the Foundation. Located in a warehouse in downtown Los Angeles, the Studio is a multi-disciplinary study of issues related to culture, sustainability, and health at the intersection of art and
NFPF Grants
posted January 10, 2011
The National Film Preservation Foundation has invited proposals for its Avant-Garde Masters film preservation grant program. Interested archives should register by March 25 2011. The final applications are due April 29 2011. The grants, made possible by The Film Foundation, support the preservation of a film or films by a single filmmaker or cinematic movement