Moving Image Archiving as Performance Art
posted March 6, 2012
Caylin Smith asks: What are the implications for moving image archivists – restorers and presenters of early films, for example – of the old saw, "a work of art can never be produced the same way twice?"
More interviews: archiving solutions – for media art, too
posted March 5, 2012
More interviews: archiving solutions – for the films of the past, and for new works of "media art," too.
More Interviews with Moving Image Archivists
posted March 2, 2012
Some more interviews with moving image archivists. If you know anyone who would like to become one, this series of clips might well help. In today’s selection, Hannah Palin, a film archives specialist at the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections, suggests how a beginner moving image archivist might find work in the field. And
Interviews with Moving Image Archivists
posted February 29, 2012
Here are two more of a series of interviews with moving image archivists and people working in related fields that we’ll be posting over the next couple of weeks. A while ago, we asked some folks in the moving image archiving world what they do in their jobs, how they got involved in the field,
Interviews with Moving Image Archivists
posted February 28, 2012
A while ago, we at Moving Image Archive News interviewed some folks in the world of moving image archiving, preservation, and restoration about what they do in their jobs, how they got involved in the field, and the like. Over the next few weeks, you can see what they said, here on the site. If
Kim Jong-Il, Auteur
posted January 1, 2012
North Korean supremo Kim Jong-Il, whose run has just ended, fancied himself a film visionary. He amassed his country's largest collection of films while driving it into devastating famine and poverty.
Learning to Preserve Moving Images in Amsterdam
posted December 2, 2011
Caylin Smith, a North American student in the master's program in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image at the University of Amsterdam, reports on her experience there.
The Art of the Film Improviser
posted November 23, 2011
During 25 years of accompanying and composing for silent film and other audio-visual media, Neil Brand has become one of the finest exponents of a century-old art.
John Carpenter’s First Student Film and 27 Other Projects Win Preservation Awards
posted October 26, 2011
Thanks to the National Film Preservation Foundation – which, by the way, is we, the people – you'll soon be able to see 28 films that have been missing from action.
New Light Cast on The White Shadow
posted October 11, 2011
"The White Shadow" went missing from screens in the mid-1920s, but now it's back – at least, half of it is. A restoration of the early feature, one of the first film projects featuring Alfred Hitchcock, was a highlight of the just-completed 2011 Pordenone Silent Film Festival. Caylin Smith reports.