The 2022 Domitor committee and the EC is happy to circulate the Call for Papers for the next Domitor 2022 international conference: “Copy/Rights and Early Cinema.” In June 2022, at the Library of Congress in Culpeper, Virginia (USA), Domitor will host its 17th international…
Finding an Audience for (Silent) Film Heritage Today: Online Panel August 22, 2021, 4.30pm CEST As part of the Bonn International Silent Film Festival, archivists and curators from institutes and festivals ranging from the San Francisco Silent Film Festival to the Czech Film Archive (Národní filmový…
The Magic Lantern in Leisure, Entertainment and Popular CultureLocation: Photography Museum (FOMU) in Antwerp, BelgiumPre-conference Event at CINEMATEK Brussels on 4 May 2022This conference aims to bring together new research and scholarship on the many uses of the magic/optical lantern. The conference will also present and discuss…
Women and the Silent Screen Online June 2-6, 2021 PRELUDE TO Women and the Silent Screen XI Conference: Women, Cinema, and Migration Entr’acte June 2, 2021 Premiere at 2:30pm EST (free to view all of June) Kennington Bioscope: https://www.youtube.com/kenningtonbioscope June 4-6, 2021 Online conference: FREE & open to all! Register here. I. “Bees and…
Remapping Early British Cinema: A Symposium 26-27 May 2021 A series of major publications in recent years have shed fresh light on the early British film business, from the 19th century pioneers up to the boom in cinema building before the First World War. Do these require…
The Editorial Board of Vivomatografías. Revista de estudios sobre precine y cine silente en Latinoamérica is pleased to announce the call for papers for its seventh issue, that will be published in December 2021. We accept contributions in Spanish, Portuguese and English dealing with…
The University of Turin is inviting scholars and students to submit abstracts for “Shadowed Screens. Dante’s Inferno in Cinema and Audio-Visual Media.” The conference will take place in Turin from 16 to 18 December 2021. Of particular interest are proposals which emphasize interdisciplinary perspectives, unpublished documental sources,…
The 125th Anniversary 2 1/2 min. program will feature: Surf at Monterey, Band Drill and Serpentine Dance 7:30 – 9:00 pm – Speakers Charlie Musser, Yale University: “The Vitascope in NYC: Some Highlights” – Tom Gunning, University of Chicago: “All the World on a Screen: Making Up the First Film…
The Cinema Museum in London and Kennington Bioscope present ‘Back in Focus: The Centenary of William Friese-Greene’ an online screening and discussion celebrating the centenary of William Friese-Greene. Mark your calendars for May 5, 2021 at 7PM (London) See the program description below. More information and…
Cinema’s First Nasty Women is a 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray set featuring 100 feminist silent films that will be released by Kino Lorber in 2022. For more information, visit their webpage and facebook page. Stay tuned !! Video Editor: Stephanie Brown Original Music: Dana Reason Project Curators: Laura Horak,…
Universitat De Girona & Museu del Cinema are currently circulating a call for papers for the 13th International Seminar on the Origins and History of Cinema: Virtual worlds in early cinema: devices, aesthetics and audiences. This conference, organized by the Museu del Cinema, The Department…
Domitor is happy to circulate the CFP for the 2021 Domitor student essay award competition. The Domitor Student Essay Award is an annual competition designed to stimulate interest in the field of early cinema studies, to involve young scholars and archivists in the activities of…
Please join the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee C21 Media Studies Collaboratory and the UWM Moving Image Society for a screening and roundtable with the editors and contributors to Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film (Duke 2019). Paying attention to previously neglected and overlooked…
Les cahiers de narratologie just published a call for papers for an issue dedicated to magic lanterns entitled : “Scrolling, projection, performance. The magic lantern as narrative device.” Abstracts (app. 700 words, in French) are due February 1st, 2021 and can be sent at…
Kino Lorber issued earlier this year two new volumes of 2K and 4K restorations of Alice Guy Blaché’s films, extensively covering her career both in France and the United-States. Volume 2, in particular, features many films from the Solax years made available for the first…
Professor Vanessa Toulmin has initiated a fundraising call for the beautiful Winter Gardens in Morecambe: The Morecambe Winter Gardens was where the Mitchell & Kenyon films of Morecambe and Lancaster were shown and appears on the films. It was also the place where The…
The members of the Domitor Executive Committee stand in solidarity with the protesters who demand justice for the murder of George Floyd and all black, brown and Indigenous individuals and people of color who have suffered abuse, carceral surveillance, systemic racism, and tragic death at…
As cinemas and theatres have closed down around the world due to the Covid-19 pandemic, as more and more of us get used to the idea of quarantining at home, film historian Steve Massa and musician Ben Model have launched the “Silent Comedy Watch…
Dear Domitorians, We hope you are staying safe. In light of the latest developments of the Corona Virus / COVID-19 – i.e. travel bans, global closure and cloistering, uncertainties for the entire semester and time required for individual planning (not mentioning research), we confirm that the Domitor…
Earlier this year, the Brazilian Association of Audiovisual Preservation (ABPA) circulated a letter denouncing serious impediments to the regular activities of research, preservation and exhibition at the Cinemateca Brasileira and the Cinemateca Capitólio in Porto Alegre. Cinemateca Brasileira, São Paulo Such difficulties are the direct…
