May 2022 - REEL TO REEL INSTITUTE

27.05.2022

Orphan Film Symposium 2022 The symposium is a biennial event that brings together people from different aspects devoted to saving, studying, and screening neglected audio-visual heritage. The 2022 edition focuses on ‘counter-archives’, by which the organiser means to invoke a disposition toward ‘orphan films’ that foregrounds not just abandoned materials but also stories, themes, and peoples often underrepresented, absent, or silenced by historical struggles.Photo credit and details: https://wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/ 相關新聞 Facebook…

23.05.2022

A posthumous masterpiece The Other Side of the Wind, made for half a century Orson Welles filmed The Other Side of the Wind from 1970 to 1976, then edited on and off for several years. But it wasn’t complete due to financial problems. In 1979, after the Shah was overthrown, one of the film's backers, an Iraq company located in Paris, decided to seise the original negative. Welles just held…

21.05.2022

Kino-Pravda Exactly 100 years ago, Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov, together with his future wife Elizaveta Svilova (they would marry in 1923) and his brother Mikhail Kaufman, started the newsreel series Kino-Pravda, named after Pravda, the main official newspaper in the Soviet Union. The first issue of the series was released in 1922 and subsequently 22 more until 1925. In spite of limited resources, the film provides a ground for Vertov’s…

16.05.2022

Cannes Classics 2022 Jean Eustache’s The Mother and the Whore (1972) will be the grand opening to the section! Satyajit Ray's The Adversary (1970), Glauber Rocha’s Black God, White Devil (1964) and Philippine director Mike De Leon’s Itim (1976), as well as the documentary on Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman by Ethan Hawke are all eagerly awaited!Details: https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/infos-communiques/communique/articles/cannes-classics-2022?fbclid=IwAR1LTJxKZBdqgxYsHabqg1R0qiS37r0P3Zy9Qe1CJA2AenFQiYTnOjj-MyM Related News Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter Linkedin

10.05.2022

EYE International Conference 2022 The conference will take place in Amsterdam, from 29 to 31 May and be devoted to the topic 'Global Audiovisual Archiving: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices'. Participants are invited to two annual side events: 'Meet The Archive', and the 'Open House at the EYE Collection Centre'. The organiser offers a hybrid conference format to accommodate overseas participants as well!Details: https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme/eye-international-conference-2022/563352Registration: https://kaarten.eyefilm.nl/eye/en/flow_configs/webshop-streams-specials/steps/start/show/670251 相關新聞 Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter…

09.05.2022

Inland Empire Inland Empire (2006) represents David Lynch’s first foray into digital filmmaking. The director supervised the 4K version with a new sound mix for the theatrical release this April.It is a complicated and painstaking process. The film was shot in SD with a Sony DV camera hand-held by Lynch himself. The footage was then up-converted to HD for grading. A digital-intermediate master was completed and output to HDCAM-SR tape…

06.05.2022

Albanian Cinema Project ‘Albanian Cinema Project’ aims to bring a 'new' national cinema to international screens by carrying out restoration projects and filling in the missing pieces of Albanian cinema. It led to many other screenings and exchanges, such as the series of retrospectives of Albanian films curated by independent programmer Louise Burkart from the Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum. She has been looking for film materials related to Albania from…

04.05.2022

San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2022 The San Francisco Silent Film Festival is back finally! The festival was first held in 1996 and is one of the most important silent film festivals in the world. The opening film would be Erich von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives (1922), of which the restored version has kept the audience waiting for two years! There are also seven brand new restorations carried out by the festival.Details:…

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