Film Representations of Indigenous Peoples
posted June 1, 2010
The 2010 Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium, a multi-disciplinary gathering devoted to the history, theory, and preservation of moving images, is scheduled for Friday, July 23 and Saturday, July 24, in the coastal town of Bucksport, Maine. This year, the symposium will explore amateur and noncommercial filmmakers’ representations of indigenous peoples and cultures. In particular,
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
posted June 1, 2010
29 April – May 4, 2010 Oberhausen, Germany Oberhausen showcases short film as the fount of film experimentation and innovation, a hotbed of new ideas presented in moving images of many kinds: film and video, short fiction film or essay, installation, graduation film or artist’s video, animation, documentary, and hybrids of all those. Of about
William O’Farrell Fellowship Awarded
posted May 26, 2010
Northeast Historic Film has awarded its inaugural William O’Farrell Fellowship to Caitlin McGrath, a doctoral candidate in cinema and media studies at the University of Chicago. The Fellowship provides a stipend of $1,500 to support research at NHF, a regional moving image archives established in 1986 and located in Bucksport, Maine. NHF awards the O’Farrell
Caroline Frick Named Eastman House Curator
posted May 25, 2010
Caroline Frick has been named the sixth curator of motion pictures at George House International Museum of Photography and Film, which was founded 61 years ago, and is the third largest film archive in the US. Frick has worked in film preservation at Warner Bros., the Library of Congress, and the National Archives in Washington,
Revamping Canadian Archives
posted May 25, 2010
Daniel J. Caron, Librarian and Archivist of Canada, has launched a series of dialogues with the Canadian archival community about the role of Library and Archives Canada (LAC). He is looking for input on what the national archive is doing right, wrong, well, and not well enough. What new services should it offer? What strategies
New US Archivist
posted May 25, 2010
In November, David S. Ferriero was sworn in as the tenth Archivist of the United States, the first librarian to hold the position. The librarian and library administrator was previously the director of the New York Public Library where he worked after serving as University Librarian and vice provost for library affairs at Duke University.
AMIA 20th Anniversary Edition of The Moving Image
posted May 25, 2010
Marsha and Devin Orgeron, editors of The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, have gathered input for an expanded Forum section of the publication (issue 11.1 of early 2011) which will commemorate AMIA’s 20th anniversary. The tentative lineup for the issue, which will be the first issue of 2011, includes
On, Archives!
posted May 24, 2010
On, Archives!: A conference on media, theater, and history Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research July 6 – 9, 2010 Madison, Wisconsin On, Archives!, a conference celebrating 50 years of the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research, takes place July 6-9, 2010, in Madison. The center, formed in 1960 by the then-department of
34th Annual Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
posted May 24, 2010
American Museum of Natural History, November 11-14, 2010 Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY The longest-running American showcase for documentaries, experimental films, animation, and hybrid works that increase understanding of the complexity and diversity of peoples and culture. Submit films here by June 1. Some of the festival’s films travel to universities
Australia’s Oldest Film, Online and in the Vault
posted May 24, 2010
Late in October, 1896, Lumière cinematographer Marius Sestier took his newfangled movie camera out into central Melbourne to shoot what is now Australia’s oldest, known, surviving film, Patineur Grotesque. Performing for a gathering crowd, the bearded, cigar-puffing Humorous Rollerskater (as the film’s title has been translated) stumbles about, struggling to keep his hat on his