Preserving Exemplary American Films
posted March 17, 2013
In a project designed to assure preservation of the highest caliber to a select group of films, 25 American films are admitted each year to the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry.
Fit for a Restoration
posted February 2, 2013
A visit to Australia's National Film and Sound Archive serves as a reminder of what film restoration is all about.
When Women Made the Movies
posted January 12, 2013
In "Go West, Young Women: The Rise of Early Hollywood," Hilary Hallett explains how, thanks to immigrants seeking out futures and fortunes, Los Angeles became a burgeoning film city – and, in 1920, the only western city where women outnumbered men.
Wheeler Winston Dixon Tolls the Death of the Moguls
posted December 19, 2012
Wheeler Winston Dixon talks about how he went about researching his latest book, "Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood," in which he describes the last days of the studio system and its “rulers of film” – moguls like Harry Cohn at Columbia, Louis B. Mayer at MGM, Jack L. Warner at Warner Brothers, Adolph Zukor at Paramount, and Herbert J. Yates at Republic.
Saving Albania’s Film Legacy
posted December 5, 2012
Archivists from Albania, North America, and elsewhere are collaborating on the Albanian Cinema Project to preserve the country's film legacy.
Preserving “Time-Based Art” – An interview with Jeff Martin, IMAP
posted October 11, 2012
Jeff Martin, the executive director of Independent Media Arts Preservation, is a respected authority on a challenging undertaking: to preserve the fast-evolving works known by such titles – never quite inclusive enough – as “time-based art.” Moving Image Archive News interviewed him as IMAP’s Archiving the Arts: A symposium addressing preservation in the creative process
NFPF Grant Winner: The Exploratorium
posted October 2, 2012
The Exploratorium, a San Francisco institution that explores the intersections of art, science, and human perception, and helps users to take a curious, playful approach to doing the same, will use a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to conserve Jon Boorstin’s Exploratorium, a documentary short filmed in 1974 that portrays the renowned Bay
Work Continues on a Film Trove in Jordan
posted August 14, 2012
An American multimedia artist and colleagues are processing a film trove discovered in Jordan, hoping eventually to establish a moving-image archive in the country.
Treacherous Subject: Doing Archival Work in Việt Nam
posted July 16, 2012
In her book Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism, issued in April by Temple University Press, Lan P. Duong, an associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California at Riverside, takes feminist perspectives on post-Vietnam war era filmmakers Tony Bui and Tran Anh Hung; filmmaker, writer, and composer Trinh T.
Instant Cinema: Experimental Media Art Online
posted June 13, 2012
Instant Cinema is a platform for experimental film, video, and computer art designed “to compensate for half a century of under-exposure ... by exhibiting some of the great classics of recent history, side by side with the work of today’s most talented media artists.”