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It was a joy to write this festival report on Il Cinema Ritrovato '25 in Bologna!! (Highlights include contortionist snake ladies 🐍 & smashing the patriarchy! 🔨) FREE to read via @ucpress.bsky.social in the sizzling new issue of @filmquarterly.bsky.social 🎞️🎊 !!
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Image of devil from Hell-Bound Train (James & Eloyce Gist, 1930)
Image of drinking youth from Hell-Bound Train (James & Eloyce Gist, 1930)
Image of devil from Hell-Bound Train (James & Eloyce Gist, 1930)
Image of young robber in a mask and holding a pistol from Hell-Bound Train (James & Eloyce Gist, 1930)
Horror ppl should watch Hell-Bound Train (James & Eloyce Gist, 1930) on @criterionchannl.bsky.social. The Gists were Black evangelists & amateur filmmakers who used their films in their sermons. This film is a catalogue of sins. Even w/ no budget, it has surprisingly haunting moments throughout.
Our Fall 2025 issue "Notes on Historical Methods" is now live! In her introduction, Katherine Groo reflects on the voices of historical writing, the long history of feminist methods, and the guiding concept and structure of the "note" itself.
Open access for a limited time:
doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
🎬Our interview series "Data Practices, Provenance, and Categorizations in Film History" is out now! 👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Our #DAVIF project partners discuss how data practices and institutional and theoretical frameworks shape film-historical #metadata.
#digitalfilmhistory #culturalheritage
Excited to be in Bruges, and at this festival, this weekend!
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We look forward to exchanging feminist film historiographical research (and research questions), relevant scholarly and archival news and events, resources, and more with you all!
🎥✨ Step into the world of early cinema innovation! Join us Friday, September 19, for the next edition of ONLINE WITH SFFP: Preserving Douglass Crockwell’s Mutoscopes.
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On Friday, July 18, Dr. Veronica Johnson will give an online presentation on the history of the Film Company of Ireland, and its co-founder Nell O’Mara Sullivan. Hosted by San Francisco Film Preserve, this event is not to be missed!
Register here: filmpreserve.org/event/online...
Sold out screening of THE RED KIMONA (1925) at #IlCinemaRitrovato with brilliant intro by @shelleystamp.bsky.social & sizzling catalog notes by @katesac.bsky.social & live accomplishment by Meg Morley!!! 🎞️🎶🤩 festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezion...
Come break plates with us today at #IlCinemaRitrovato!!! 4:30pm in DAMSLab 🎊😍🎞️ @karenpearlman.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social @richardjamesallen.bsky.social @katesac.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social
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@physicaltv.bsky.social @nastysilents.bsky.social's BREAKING PLATES screening at Il Cinema Ritrovato this Sun, June 22, 4.30pm.
Tix: www.google.com/url?q=https:...
Join @karenpearlman.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social Elif Kaynakci, Kate Saccone & @richardjamesallen.bsky.social for the panel/Q&A!
#bornonthisday: actress, director, producer, and screenwriter Helen Holmes!
Don't miss the BREAKING PLATES screening on Sunday afternoon at Il Cinema Ritrovato! It's sure to be a smash with @hennefem.bsky.social, @karenpearlman.bsky.social, @richardjamesallen.bsky.social, and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi on stage 😀
festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezion...
Any chance I'll see you in Bologna after NECS?
Notifications regarding Women and the Silent Screen XII submissions will be sent out slightly later than planned. Please expect to hear back around mid-February.
The conference committee apologizes for any inconvenience that this delay may cause!
Congrats to @alixbeeston.bsky.social and @stefansolomon.bsky.social whose *phenomenal* collection INCOMPLETE won Best Edited Collection at this year’s @scmstudies.bsky.social Book Awards!! Proud to have it in my Feminist Media Histories series @ucpress.bsky.social
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New in #openaccess! STRETCHING THE ARCHIVES TOWARD A GLOBAL FILM WOMEN’S FILM HERITAGE.
Eds. Lizelle Bisschoff, Ana Grgić, Stefanie Van de Peer.
Book has particular emphasis on feminist cultural memory and film heritage in the Global South.
www.archivebooks.org/stretching-t...
As it stand, we sadly don't have enough votes in this year's poll. If we don't get a few more surveys completed, it wouldn't be fair to name any winners – so please vote! silentlondon.co.uk/2024/12/22/t...
Excited to be heading to the Netherlands Silent Film Festival tomorrow! 🎞️ 🎶
On Saturday, Anke Brouwers and I will present our program "Nice Work (if You Can Get It)," which is dedicated to women at work and working women of various kinds!
TO SAVE AND PROJECT, MoMA's annual festival of preserved films, starts tonight and continues through Jan. 30. www.moma.org/calendar/fil...
Let's do a silent movie alphabet!
A is for The Adventures of Prince Achmed
It's the most wonderful time of the year! Time to vote in the Silent London Poll of 2024! silentlondon.co.uk/2024/12/22/t...
As we approach the holiday I want to share some Christmas shorts directed by women.
Czech animator Hermina Tyrlova, created wonderful worlds of wool & string. A stop motion innovator, her career spanned almost 60 years, 1927-86. Here is her delightful SNOWMAN (1966) www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtNo...
The schedule is up for MoMA's annual festival of film preservation, TO SAVE AND PROJECT. Organized by yours truly this year, with the invaluable help of Cindi Rowell. Starts Jan. 9 with our upgraded restoration of Frank Borzage's silent masterpiece, 7th HEAVEN.
www.moma.org/calendar/fil...
