This week I drove out to Pacific Palisades to the Villa Aurora, the German cultural center, to attend a screening of a new German television documentary, Alexander Granach (2012). I hadn’t been to the Villa since Margaret Kleinman took over the Directorship, having previously spent decades at the L.A.
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Archival Spaces: Memory, Images, History
April 4, 2013 - 3:52 pm
March 21, 2013 - 11:31 am
Last week at the Syracuse Cinefest, which convenes annually in March, UCLA Film & Television Archive presented a work-in-progress restoration of Partners Again (1926), a silent comedy feature. This one was literally snatched from the grave, but I’ll get to that in a moment.
March 7, 2013 - 1:06 pm
On December 1, 2012, I celebrated my fifth anniversary as Director of UCLA Film & Television Archive. Frankly, I’m shocked at how quickly the time has flown by––and find that this anniversary provides a good opportunity to take stock of what has been accomplished so far.
L.A. Rebellion Blog
March 20, 2013 - 9:31 am
As “L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema” closes out its run at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle this weekend, NFF program assistant Lauren Hohle explores the decolonization of film language in the L.A. Rebellion.
March 5, 2013 - 11:17 am
Hidden behind a false wall in the Ackerman Union for more than 20 years, a group of UCLA students now seeks to restore the 40-year-old student-made mural entitled, “The Black Experience.”
