Norman Mailer, Auteur
posted September 7, 2012
In a Criterion Collection essay, Michael Chaikin considers the films of Norman Mailer.
New Award to Honor a Valued Archivist
posted September 7, 2012
The Association of Moving Image Archivists has established a new award, named for one of its stalwarts.
Only All-Native American Silent Rediscovered
posted August 29, 2012
The Daughter of Dawn, perhaps the only all-Native American cast silent film ever made, has been rediscovered in "shambles" a century after it was made, restored, and now re-presented.
The Reel Thing XXIX
posted August 16, 2012
23-25 August 2012 Los Angeles Registration is still open, but space is limited, for The Reel Thing, one of the premier gatherings devoted to presenting the latest technologies in audiovisual restoration and preservation. It brings together laboratory technicians, archivists, new-media technologists, and preservationists. But the event has much to offer interested amateurs, too. Organized by
A Film Trove in Jordan
posted August 14, 2012
An American multimedia artist is heading a project to document and preserve a trove of feature and documentary films unearthed in a market garage in Jordan.
Work Continues on a Film Trove in Jordan
posted August 14, 2012
An American multimedia artist and colleagues are processing a film trove discovered in Jordan, hoping eventually to establish a moving-image archive in the country.
What is the Artwork?
posted July 26, 2012
Archiving works of multimedia art is a challenge. Caylin Smith tells why, and describes a workshop on creating conservation models for media art with moving images.
Indiana University Posts 197 Educational Films
posted July 16, 2012
From a woodchuck in doll clothes to a defense of the Korean War, 197 newly digitized films from the Indiana University Libraries’ educational film collection capture numerous aspects of American life from the 1940s through the 1980s. The Indiana University Libraries Film Archive has digitized 197 educational films produced by the university, and made them
Lan P. Duong on Vietnamese Cinema Archives
posted July 16, 2012
In the Feature Articles pages, there’s a new item by Lan P. Duong, the author of Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism, issued in April by Temple University Press, about the challenges and pleasures of doing research about the history of Vietnamese cinema.
Treacherous Subject: Doing Archival Work in Việt Nam
posted July 16, 2012
In her book Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism, issued in April by Temple University Press, Lan P. Duong, an associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California at Riverside, takes feminist perspectives on post-Vietnam war era filmmakers Tony Bui and Tran Anh Hung; filmmaker, writer, and composer Trinh T.