For a special issue on “the aesthetics of atrocity,” scheduled for fall 2011, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism has issued a call for abstracts, proposals, or full feature essays (2,000-4,000 words). Deadline for submissions and proposals is November 1, 2010; for accepted materials, April 1, 2011.
Afterimage: Call for Papers
posted June 30, 2010
Identifying a Trove of Films in Jordan
posted June 27, 2010
By Matthew Epler
Aqaba, Jordan –
Almost 900 mysteries wait to be solved at the Royal Film Commission in Amman, Jordan. They are film cans stacked in a garage facing a busy and popular street lined with small markets, workshops, and restaurants. Each day, locals and tourists pass them by without the slightest notion that within them ...
NHPRC and NFPF
posted June 23, 2010
National Historical Publications and Records Commission – Detailed Processing Grant. Optional draft deadline: August 2, 2010. Final deadline: October 7, 2010. Film and video materials are eligible. National Film Preservation Foundation – Basic Preservation, Matching, and Avant-Garde Masters grant information.
Audiovisual Preservation for Limited Budgets
posted June 23, 2010
Audiovisual Preservation for Limited Budgets at The Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies, Mount Campbell, Illinois. July 30-31, 2010. Cost: $535. The schedule for all courses at The Campbell Center, and scholarship and registration info are at http://www.campbellcenter.org/.
Indiana University Seeks Cinema Technical Manager
posted June 23, 2010
Job Description: “Responsible for the technical operation, maintenance, and advancement of IU Cinema as a world-class facility. This includes the successful recruitment, training, scheduling, and management of Graduate Student projectionists, the research and procurement of leading technologies, and upholding the highest standards of exhibition possible. Functions as a vital contributor, providing advice and direction to ...
Peter Clifton Finds His Lost Easybeats Film
posted June 20, 2010
At the beginning of his career in making films about music, Australian director and producer Peter Clifton created a documentary about the 1967 tour of England by The Easybeats, a fabled fivesome who put an Antipodean spin on the British Invasion bands of the era.
The Easybeats’ claims to fame include being the first Australian rock-and-roll ...
NZ Film Archive Unearths Early-Film Treasures
posted June 7, 2010
The New York Times reported on June 7 that 75 films of historical or cultural importance to the United States have been discovered in the New Zealand Film Archive (Ngā Kaitiaki O Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua), and will be repatriated to the US and placed under the care of the National Film Preservation Foundation, the ...
posted June 6, 2010
Seattle-based Jon Behrens is best known as a veteran maker of experimental films, but he also has long been a film collector, and here is one diverting outcome: Batteries Not Included, his 58-minute collation of kids’ toy ads from the ’50s to the ’70s: a “real electronic missile base,” a ...
28th Pordenone Silent Film Festival
posted June 3, 2010
Among the offerings are influential French comedy and burlesque films from the 1910s, and films from generally unknown Japanese directors including Kiyohiko Ushihara who “apprenticed” under Charles Chaplin. http://www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/gcm/
Stark Love: A Silent Masterpiece
posted June 1, 2010
Reprinted with permission from the Fall/Winter ’09 issue of Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine, at the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee State University. New York Times film critic Mordaunt Hall reviewed Stark Love in 1927. The Times makes you register to look at their “vintage” reviews, but it’s free.