Announcement by François Amy de la Bretèque: Dear domitorians, I have just received the notice of death (August 2) from our friend Henri Bousquet that the oldest of us have known well. He was a loyal follower of the Giornate del Cinema Muto. He spent a number…
Love The 11th Orphan Film Symposium April 11-14, 2018 Museum of the Moving Image, New York Deadline to submit one-page proposals for presentations (15 to 30 minutes) that include the screening of seldom-seen material: August 28, 2017 Scholars, archivists, curators, media artists, preservationists, collectors, and other enthusiasts are invited to come…
It is with sadness that Domitor shares the news of the recent passing of our colleague Karel Dibbets on May 28th, 2017 at age 70. Karel was a major Dutch film historian whose writings significantly contributed to the study of film history in and of…
Vaghe Stelle Attrici del/nel cinema italiano International 2017 Conference FASCinA – Forum delle studiose di cinema e audiovisivi 5-7 October 2017 Università di Sassari, Sardinia Call for papers detail Proposal deadline: 15 August 2017
The Thousand and One Faces of Segundo de Chómon: Trick Film Artist, Colorist, Cameraman and Pioneer of the Cinema International Conference 27-28 November 2017 Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, Paris Call for papers detail Proposals deadline: 30 April 2017
3 Postdoctoral & 5 PhD Fellowships to be offered The eikones Graduate School at the University of Basel in Switzerland invites applications for 3 postdoctoral one-year Nomis Fellowships beginning 1 September 2017, supporting groundbreaking research projects related to how images act as models or paradigms in…
Marcel Proust has been identified in a 1904 film DOMITOR congratulates Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan, Domitor member, who in his article of the Revue d’études proustiennes argues that Marcel Proust has been captured on film while leaving the 1904 wedding of the daughter of the Countess…
The EYE received the San Francisco Silent Film Festival Award 2017 DOMITOR congratulates the EYE Film Insitute Netherlands, recipient of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival Award 2017. The extraordinary programs for which our friends at EYE have been recognized notably included “Fantasia of Color…
DISCOVERY AT EYE A Munkászubbony (The Work Jacket, István Bródy, Hungary, 1915) DOMITOR congratulates the Dutch researchers at the Amsterdam-based EYE Film Institute who have discovered one of the oldest extant Hungarian films: A Munkászubbony (The Work Jacket), shown on January 12th, 1915. Lost for decades, The…
British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2017 6th & 7th April 2017 King’s College, London The British Silent Film Festival affords scholars, archivists and enthusiasts the opportunity to re-asses film-making in Britain between 1895 and 1930. By bringing forgotten films out of the archive, and encouraging scholarly activity…
