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...Harvard Film Archive (HFA) preserves and exhibits much of this heritage. It was also an important part of the liberation of Eastern Bloc cultural works and venue for their display. It is still a place where important films with little commercial potential but immense cultural importance are regularly screened. (We also screen plenty of highly commercial films in an effort to examine their appeal...
With film studies inside VES, and with access to the HFA, I think you have one of the best learning communities imaginable. As a VES concentrator, you would be certain never to stray too far from practice, never to forget the challenges of art and relevance, and always to face the provocation of the new. (You’ll also get good advising...
Bruce Jenkins, the film scholar who served as the curator of the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) until it became part of the Harvard College Library system in February, will join the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) as its dean of undergraduate studies in the fall...
Colleagues said Jenkins would face a different set of challenges than he did at the HFA, but most thought his skills were well suited to the SAIC’s undergraduate deanship...
...Saturday, April 24, the HFA screened one of Ozu’s silent films, I Was Born, But... (Umarete Wa mita karedo) the way audiences would have seen it in the 1930s: a live benshi performed while the movie played on the screen. During the silent film era in Japan, benshi served as narrators to the on-screen action, playing a key part in popularizing motion pictures throughout the country. Saturday’s performance will come from Midori Sawato, one of the few remaining practicing benshi in the world. The live narration is a performance...