Hello and welcome to The Sound of Silence, the first season of The Peeping Archivist’s podcast The Conversation. For this first podcast series, we wanted to put words on an art too often, and unjustifiably, considered mute: silent cinema. Silent cinema has long been a priority for film archivists worldwide. Read more…
Starting his career as a composer and pianist, Mr Thibaudeau has now been the official silent film accompanist of the Cinémathèque québécoise for the past 30 years and a regular performer at silent and restored film festivals for almost as long.
Pirmoji Banga/Film Festival is the first film festival in Lithuania entirely dedicated to archival pre-war films, splitting its program between silent films and early sound films. It has been taking place for the past three years at the cinema center “Skalvija” in Vilnius with increasing popularity. The Peeping Archivist Read more…
On their way to Il Cinema Ritrovato at the end of June, many archival film buffs may stop by the Yorkshire Silent Film Festival, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, or the Library of Congress‘ “Mostly Lost.” I chose a different route: it’s already the second time in 5 years that Read more…
From October 26th until the 29th the second annual “Film: ReStored” festival took place at the Filmhaus in Berlin, Germany. The four-day festival—organised by the Deutsche Kinemathek on behalf of the Deutscher Kinematheksverbund—premiered digitally restored films in combination with lectures and workshops focused on questions surrounding the digitisation of film Read more…