Calls for Proposals: Bastard Films & Comparative Literature
posted October 30, 2012
Going beyond the concept of the "orphan film" – films orphaned by their creators or caretakers – the Bastard Film Encounter will focus on films that are bastards: ill-conceived or received; embarrassing or beyond the bounds of acceptability; poor in conception or execution; undesirable to those who should be caring for them; and proof of something that should have never happened.
Preserving the Interactive Telecommunications Program
posted October 20, 2012
Matthew Epler and Kate Watson were among presenters at Archiving the Arts: A symposium, a recent day-long event organized by Independent Media Arts Preservation, a New York-based service, education, and advocacy nonprofit organization that assists caretakers of collections of non-commercial electronic media. (See, an interview with IMAP director Jeff Martin.) Here is Epler and Watson’s
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 Preservation Grantee: George Eastman House
posted October 10, 2012
The George Eastman House has won a 2012 Basic Preservation Grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to restore and publicly present Hollywouldn’t, a 1925 film by Lou Carter. The short film, originally released by Trem Carr Productions, is a free-wheeling satire on the Hollywood industry at the height of the silent era, the Eastman
More on the Mysterious Life of A Cache of Sports Films
posted October 3, 2012
Back in our early days, Hannah Palin described her work at the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections, hunting down and spruicing up a large collecting of her institution’s sports films. Here’s an update on those, in the form of a video feature from the university.
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
NFPF Grantee: Oregon Historical Society
posted September 26, 2012
With its NFPF grant, the Oregon Historical Society will conserve the only known copy of The Boy Mayor, a short film shot in Portland in 1914 about the city's progressive-era experiment involving teens in local government.
NFPF Grant Recipient: Trisha Brown Dance Company
posted September 25, 2012
The Trisha Brown Dance Company will preserve two films with a grant it has received in the NFPF's 2012 round of funding. Both films provide insight into the choreographer's intelligent and irreverent wit and her radical definitions of what constituted performance.
AMIA Conference Registration is Open
posted September 25, 2012
Registration is now open for the annual conference of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, the largest professional organization in the field. The convention offers sessions and workshops on varied topics, as well as an opportunity to network with colleagues and other interested parties including vendors of hardware and software associated with moving-image conservation, restoration,
NFPF Grant Recipient: Colorado Ski & Snowboard Museum
posted September 25, 2012
The annual Steamboat Winter Carnival is the oldest continuous winter carnival west of the Mississippi. It brings together neighbors and visitors to mark the winter-sports history of the region. The Colorado Ski & Snowboard Museum in Golden will use its grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to restore Steamboat Winter Carnival, a 1948 film that highlights events