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Seven Films to be Preserved Through Avant-Garde Masters Grants
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| Plumb Line (1971) by Carolee Schneemann. |
A portrait of a drag artist by Heather McAdams, a structural film by Lawrence Gottheim, two evocations of city/ landscapes by Allen Downs, and three works by Carolee Schneemann will be preserved and made available through the 2022 Avant-Garde Masters Grants, awarded by The Film Foundation and the National Film Preservation Foundation.
Chicago-based alternative cartoonist Heather McAdams assembled her films from found footage, viewing pop culture’s scraps through an anarchic feminist lens. While teaching in Lexington, Kentucky, McAdams befriended Bradley Harrison Picklesimer, owner of a drag bar/nightclub on Main Street. Assembled “like a crazy quilt,” to quote McAdams, Meet…Bradley Harrison Picklesimer (1988) scrambles found and direct footage to cover its … Read more
60 Films to be Saved by the NFPF’s 2022 Grants
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| The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy (1980) will be preserved by the Yale Film Archive with NFPF support. |
The National Film Preservation Foundation is proud to announce the winners of its 2022 federally funded grants. 28 institutions will use the awards to preserve 60 films, including the 1921 mystery-western Trailin’, starring Tom Mix, the first true cowboy movie star; lecture reels of Dian Fossey’s groundbreaking mountain gorilla research; and the short comedic feature The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy (1980), one of two films completed filmmaker/professor Kathleen Collins before her premature death from cancer.
“Losing Ground (1982), the second and final film by Kathleen Collins, was added to the National Film Registry in 2020,” notes Allyson Nadia Field, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, and a member of the … Read more
Three NFPF Films at the UCLA Festival of Preservation
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| The Bus (1965) by Haskell Wexler. |
Taking place May 20–22, the UCLA Festival of Preservation showcases the variety of recent preservation work by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. The 20th edition of the Festival includes 10 features, seven shorts and four television programs. Among those shorts are three titles preserved through recent NFPF grants, all screening on Saturday, May 21.
Hey, Mama (1967) is a cinéma vérité documentary about African American life in the Oakwood neighborhood of Venice, California. It was directed and edited by Vaughn Obern, a white UCLA film student who spent six months in the neighborhood. Aware of his own status as an outsider, Obern immersed viewers in the daily lives of Oakwood’s working-class community and demonstrated the conditions created by structural racism. The film won second prize in the documentary category of the Fourth Annual … Read more
Go “Below the Surface” at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival!
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| Below the Surface (1920). |
After a two-year break the San Francisco Silent Film Festival roars back to life on May 5th. This 25th anniversary edition lasts until May 11 and is jam-packed with films. Among these treasures is Below the Surface (1920), preserved by the Festival through the support of the National Film Preservation Foundation. The premiere of the restoration occurs on Friday, May 6, at 2pm, and we hope you can make it.
Below the Surface was the follow-up to the notorious revenge melodrama Behind the Door (1919). It reunites producer Thomas Ince, director Irvin Willat, star Hobart Bosworth, and cinematographer J.O. Taylor (later to film King Kong). Both films have action aboard submarines and a macabre shipboard denouement. In Below the Surface Bosworth plays a diver in small-town Maine who’s assisted by his loyal son (Lloyd Hughes). Their relationship is … Read more
Treasures DVDs Available from the NFPF Website
We are happy to report that our Treasures from American Film Archives DVD sets can now be purchased from the NFPF's Shopify website.We are thrilled to directly distribute these acclaimed sets, which present long unseen American films with new musical accompaniment, onscreen program notes, and printed catalogs. Available are: Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film, 1900–1934; Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947–1986; Treasures 5: The West, 1898–1938; and Lost and Found: American Treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive.
All orders will be fulfilled by the NFPF. We look forward to making these examples of superb archival preservation work easily available to students, academics, cinephiles, and anyone interested in America’s film heritage.