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Archival Spaces: Memory, Images, History

Stacks of archived footage
October 21, 2011 - 1:40 pm

This year’s “Days of Silent Film,” held October 1-8 in Pordenone, Italy, was very much a mixed bag, including canonical works, like Leopold Jessner’s Backstairs (1923), Chaplin and Keaton, previously lost Italian silents, programs of early cinema, the Th

Stacks of archived footage
October 14, 2011 - 11:15 am

On October 7, 2011, we premiered the first fully timed second answer print of Daughters of the Dust. Below is an abridged version of my opening remarks:

Stacks of archived footage
September 29, 2011 - 10:50 am
September 29, 2011 - 10:50 am

After almost three years of intense preparation, our film exhibition program “L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema” is nearing completion. The program is printed, our catalog at the printers.

Stacks of archived footage
September 16, 2011 - 8:50 am

On the first day of “The Reel Thing XXVII” in August at the Academy Film Library, participants were treated to a sneak preview of a “work-in-progress,” a 2K digital restoration of The Loves of Pharaoh (Das Weib des Pharao, 1921).

I intuitively knew as soon as I saw this still from Haile Gerima’s Ashes & Embers (1982) that it had to be our signature image for the Archive’s fall program at the Billy Wilder Theater,  “L.A.

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