Jeff Lambert has been promoted to executive director of the National Film Preservation Foundation, succeeding Annette Melville, who nearly two decades ago was instrumental in launching the archival agency that rescues lost cinema. The Nfpf announced the news Thursday. Melville, who is retiring, co-authored two landmark legislative studies — Film Preservation 1993 and Redefining Film Preservation — that provided policymakers and the public with a snapshot of the precarious state of film preservation in the early 1990s. Her work led to the 1997 creation of the Nfpf, the nonprofit charitable affiliate of the National Film Preservation Board of the Library
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- 8/28/2014
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On November 18 at the Academy Film Archive in Hollywood, California, Jeff Lambert of the National Film Preservation Foundation presented a selection of experimental films that will be included on the upcoming DVD box set Treasures VI: Next Wave Avant-Garde.
A follow-up to the hugely popular Treasures IV box set, which was released in 2009, the new Treasures VI will focus primarily on the so-called “second wave” of avant-garde filmmakers of the ’70s and ’80s, many of whom were taught and influenced by the “first wave” of filmmakers found on Treasures IV. As such, Treasures VI will include work by lesser known and appreciated filmmakers from a typically overlooked period in underground film history.
Lambert announced at the event that Treasures VI will include 33 films by 28 filmmakers, then proceded to screen six of those films. Those six were:
A Trip to Indiana, dir. Curt McDowell and Ted Davis
Plumb Line, dir. Carolee Schneemann
Radio Adios,...
A follow-up to the hugely popular Treasures IV box set, which was released in 2009, the new Treasures VI will focus primarily on the so-called “second wave” of avant-garde filmmakers of the ’70s and ’80s, many of whom were taught and influenced by the “first wave” of filmmakers found on Treasures IV. As such, Treasures VI will include work by lesser known and appreciated filmmakers from a typically overlooked period in underground film history.
Lambert announced at the event that Treasures VI will include 33 films by 28 filmmakers, then proceded to screen six of those films. Those six were:
A Trip to Indiana, dir. Curt McDowell and Ted Davis
Plumb Line, dir. Carolee Schneemann
Radio Adios,...
- 11/19/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
November 18
7:30 p.m.
Linwood Dunn Theater
1313 Vine Street
Hollywood, California 90028
Hosted by: Academy Film Archive
Jeff Lambert of the National Film Preservation Foundation will be on hand to present selections from the highly anticipated “Treasures VI” DVD collection, which will be focused on avant-garde and experimental films.
While the exact contents of Treasures VI have not been released yet, this screening is said to include work by Carolee Schneemann, Bruce Conner and Andrea Callard.
As this screening is part of the Academy Film Archives’s series on film preservation, Lambert will lead a discussion about the process and challenges of preserving avant-garde films.
A report on this screening event, including titles and descriptions of the films shown, can be found here.
Another article will be written when the contents of the Treasures VI box set is announced.
7:30 p.m.
Linwood Dunn Theater
1313 Vine Street
Hollywood, California 90028
Hosted by: Academy Film Archive
Jeff Lambert of the National Film Preservation Foundation will be on hand to present selections from the highly anticipated “Treasures VI” DVD collection, which will be focused on avant-garde and experimental films.
While the exact contents of Treasures VI have not been released yet, this screening is said to include work by Carolee Schneemann, Bruce Conner and Andrea Callard.
As this screening is part of the Academy Film Archives’s series on film preservation, Lambert will lead a discussion about the process and challenges of preserving avant-garde films.
A report on this screening event, including titles and descriptions of the films shown, can be found here.
Another article will be written when the contents of the Treasures VI box set is announced.
- 11/14/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The National Film Preservation Foundation and The Film Foundation have awarded their annual Avant-Garde Masters Grants for 2012. The overall grant award, which equals $50,000, will help restore and preserve an impressive selection of classic experimental and avant-garde films from the 1950s and ’60s by five legendary underground filmmakers: Mike Kuchar, Gregory Markopoulos, Ian Hugo, Aldo Tambellini and Jud Yalkut.
This year’s grant award will be split among five different archivist organizations, each one working on a different filmmaker’s work.
Three filmmakers will have one film each preserved: The Temenos will be preserving Cycle VII of Gregory J. Markopoulos’ epic 22-cycle film Eniaios; Anthology Film Archives will be preserving one of Mike Kuchar‘s more obscure works, Green Desire (1965); and the Trisha Brown Dance Company will be preserving Jud Yalkut’s Planes (1968), which features choreography by Trisha Brown.
Meanwhile, the Library of Congress has been awarded the opportunity to preserve...
This year’s grant award will be split among five different archivist organizations, each one working on a different filmmaker’s work.
Three filmmakers will have one film each preserved: The Temenos will be preserving Cycle VII of Gregory J. Markopoulos’ epic 22-cycle film Eniaios; Anthology Film Archives will be preserving one of Mike Kuchar‘s more obscure works, Green Desire (1965); and the Trisha Brown Dance Company will be preserving Jud Yalkut’s Planes (1968), which features choreography by Trisha Brown.
Meanwhile, the Library of Congress has been awarded the opportunity to preserve...
- 4/18/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Last year, the New Zealand Film Archive and the National Film Preservation Foundation announced that they'd discovered a tinted print of The White Shadow (1924), "an atmospheric melodrama starring Betty Compson, in a dual role as twin sisters — one angelic and the other 'without a soul.' With mysterious disappearances, mistaken identity, steamy cabarets, romance, chance meetings, madness, and even the transmigration of souls, the wild plot crams a lot into six reels." As David Sterritt noted in that announcement, though he was only 24 at the time, "Alfred Hitchcock wrote the film's scenario, designed the sets, edited the footage, and served as assistant director to Graham Cutts, whose professional jealousy toward the gifted upstart made the job all the more challenging."
Today, Farran Nehme, Marilyn Ferdinand and Roderick Heath have announced that their third For the Love Film blogathon, running from May 13 through 18, will be a fund-raising drive to rouse up...
Today, Farran Nehme, Marilyn Ferdinand and Roderick Heath have announced that their third For the Love Film blogathon, running from May 13 through 18, will be a fund-raising drive to rouse up...
- 2/1/2012
- MUBI
Feb. 2
7:00 p.m.
Oddball Films
275 Capp Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Hosted by: Oddball Films
It’s East Coast vs. West Coast when Andrew Lampert, of the Anthology Film Archives, goes head to head with Jeff Lambert, of the National Film Preservation Foundation, in a blind curatorial smackdown of epic proportions.
These two mega forces in the world of film preservation will enter the cinematic ring essentially blindfolded. They will be handed a specific theme and a specific running time in which to curate the best, most unique, and, yes, the most oddball screening program that the world has ever seen.
In addition to producing his own films and videos, Lampert has years of experience of film curating, such as the Unessential Cinema series constructed out of lost and orphaned films buried deep in the Anthology archives.
While Lambert has less public curating experience, as the Assistant Director of the...
7:00 p.m.
Oddball Films
275 Capp Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Hosted by: Oddball Films
It’s East Coast vs. West Coast when Andrew Lampert, of the Anthology Film Archives, goes head to head with Jeff Lambert, of the National Film Preservation Foundation, in a blind curatorial smackdown of epic proportions.
These two mega forces in the world of film preservation will enter the cinematic ring essentially blindfolded. They will be handed a specific theme and a specific running time in which to curate the best, most unique, and, yes, the most oddball screening program that the world has ever seen.
In addition to producing his own films and videos, Lampert has years of experience of film curating, such as the Unessential Cinema series constructed out of lost and orphaned films buried deep in the Anthology archives.
While Lambert has less public curating experience, as the Assistant Director of the...
- 2/1/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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