Celebrate 30 years of Sweet Creations starting November 8! ✨ This merry showcase features more than 50 beautifully decorated gingerbread creations, along with dozens of handcrafted wreaths, festive tabletop trees, and mantel displays throughout the museum. Details: eastman.org/holidays

You’re invited to the opening celebration of "American, born Hungary: Kertész, Capa, and the Hungarian American Photographic Legacy" at the George Eastman Museum— Thursday, September 25, 6 p.m. ✨ Tickets: eastman.org/event/special-events-member-events/exhibition-preview-american-born-hungary

Join us as we present Rita Moreno with the George Eastman Award for her distinguished contribution to the art of cinema on Wednesday, October 29 in the @drydentheatre.bsky.social ✨ Tickets: eventbrite.com/e/2025-george-eastman-award-ceremony-and-gala-tickets-1538289739019?aff=oddtdtcreator

🎬 Ever heard of a mutoscope? Imagine flipping through moving pictures on a reel — part arcade novelty, part cinematic time machine. #OnlineWithSFFP #SanFranciscoFilmPreserve #Mutoscopes #DouglassCrockett #FilmPreservation #FilmSky 1/3

Join us for a conversation exploring how Gorge Eastman Museum preserves its collections while also making sustainable choices. 🌱 🗓️ Friday, September 12 ⏰ 1–2 p.m. 📍Online Free to all; advance registration required: eastman.org/event/talks/focus-building-sustainable-future

This month’s ONLINE WITH SFFP uncovers Crockwell’s visionary work and the @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social’s cutting-edge project to digitize his mutoscope reels. 🗓️ Friday, September 19, 12:00–1:00 PM (PST) 💻 FREE! 👉 REGISTER: filmpreserve.org/eve... 2/3

Tip to Nitrate Picture Show '25 & its gift of beloved classics & unfamiliar films on the big screen in beautiful nitrate. Favorites this year: La Ronde & My Man Godfrey Thanks for a magical time to all at @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social, @drydentheatre.bsky.social @nitratepictureshow.bsky.social ‬

Archives news! The @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social has acquired and will be preserving the complete master recordings for the moving image works of Bill Viola! www.eastman.org/george-eastm...

"I like to be remembered as an educator, and that's the first thing I think about when I talk about my photography." - Zig Jackson Hear artist Zig Jackson introduce his exhibition, "Zig Jackson: The Journey of Rising Buffalo," on view through November 9: youtu.be/RlI7CCBkA14?...

On Thursday! MovieJawn's @rosaliekicks.com and @kongmoodsy.bsky.social will be headed to @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social for the @nitratepictureshow.bsky.social. Find out more about the fest in Rosalie's interview with Curator in Charge of its Moving Image Department, Dr. Bagrov. #NitratePictureShow

Preparing for the opening of "Zig Jackson: The Journey of Rising Buffalo"—Saturday, May 10! 🔨 See you soon? 👀 Learn more: eastman.org/zig-jackson

Thanks to the Behind the Studio Door for diving into the impact of Studio 678, an after-school program where middle school students explore photography and poetry. See "Flower City Arts Center: Studio 678 Photo Club 2024/2025" on view in our community gallery, Gallery Obscura, through May 11. ✨

With her exhibition "Frames per Second (Silent)" as a focus, Liz Deschenes joined Eastman Museum curator Phil Taylor in conversation on April 2. 🎤 Watch the discussion over on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/hA8Ztwgo0Rw?...

From a queer/feminist perspective, Joy Episalla engages with the dynamics of transformation, multiplicity, and hybridity through the mutability of materials, observation, process, time, movement, seriality, and sound. Join Episalla in-person this Wednesday, April 30 at 5:30 p.m. Get your ticket👇

JUST ADDED! New 4K digital presentation of David Lynch’s THE ELEPHANT MAN screens Friday, May 9 and Saturday, May 10 at @thelittletheatre.bsky.social. Part of the A LYTTLE LYNCH collaborative film series with @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social's Dryden Theatre. 🎟️ Tickets at thelittle.org/the-elephant...

It's official! The original Technicolor nitrate print of BECKY SHARP (1935) will open the ninth Nitrate Picture Show at @drydentheatre.bsky.social,Thursday, May 29 at 7:30 p.m. 🎉 Reserve your pass today: 1618a.blackbaudhosting.com/1618a/2025-N...

Big crowd at @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social for the Rochester showing of the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival, hosted by me and @brucecoville.bsky.social! Kids made great movies: a stop-motion TALE OF DESPEREAUX, a claymation LINCOLN: A PHOTOBIOGRAPHY, and more! Recap: jameskennedy.com/2025/04/07/t...

Last April we made a trip to Rochester NY to visit the George Eastman House and Museum. Here is the front of the house, photographed ( appropriately I think ) with Kodak film. George Eastman House, April 2024 📷 Nikon f100 Nikon 50mm 1.8g 🎞️ Kodak Ultramax 400

A LYTTLE LYNCH: David Lynch Tribute coming to The Little & @drydentheatre.bsky.social! 🎞️ 3/29 | DRYDEN: Eraserhead 🎞️ 4/12 | LITTLE: Mulholland Drive 🎞️ 4/19 | LITTLE: The Short Films of David Lynch 🎞️ 4/30 | DRYDEN: Wild at Heart 🎞️ 6/13 | DRYDEN: Lost Highway 🎞️ 7/16 | LITTLE: The Straight Story

Explore, research, and discover! 🔎 George Eastman Museum offers scholars, students, and researchers access to primary and secondary sources on the history, technology, and art of photography and moving images both online and in-person (by appointment).

Home Movie Day is almost here! 🎥 Thanks to ARC Rochester for inviting us to come on this morning and talk about the origin of Home Movie Day and how the community can get involved tomorrow, March 22. Watch the interview: foxrochester.com/news/good-da...

Take a look through the world’s leading collection of photographic and cinematographic technology 👉

Seeing Treasure of the Sierra Madre on 35mm at @drydentheatre.bsky.social is a holy experience. Greatest establishment in Rochester.

Throughout 2025 we'll will be celebrating cinematic luminaries reaching the 100th anniversary of their birth the best way we know how—by bringing their films to the big screen for everyone to enjoy. 🎥

Just in case you missed our conversation on Poder 97.1—Rochester, NY's first 24-hour Latin radio station—listen to the replay! 🎙️

Experience how "Liz Deschenes: Frames Per Second (Silent)" draws connections among our collections, testing the potential of these media to reproduce (and produce) perceptions of time and color. On view through August 17. ✨

Went to see this, this past weekend. Was really great. Appreciate @flowercityarts.bsky.social and hope these kids really enjoyed seeing their work in this setting.

Earlier today at George Eastman House Museum with my mother.

Camera goals. (At the George Eastman Museum) #photography #nikon #goldisbest

Thanks to CITY Magazine for featuring @flowercityarts.bsky.social's Studio 678 Photo Club 2024/2025 exhibition! On view in our community gallery, Gallery Obscura, through May 11.

🙋‍♀️🎞️🏛️ Come celebrate Women’s History month at @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social! We’re giving away (2) tickets PLUS a $20 gift card to dine at Open Face! 👉 Enter on Instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DHOFV5E... #roc

Home Movie Day is a worldwide event that invites the public to see and share their own home movies with an audience from their community. It's also a chance to discover why home movies are important and how to care for these precious films. Coming to George Eastman Museum on Saturday, March 22. 🎥

🎬✨ BIG NEWS! ✨🎬 We are beyond thrilled to announce that we’re restoring Lewis Milestone’s breathtaking 1928 silent classic, THE GARDEN OF EDEN! LEARN MORE: filmpreserve.org/res... #SFFP #SFFilmPreserve #FilmRestoration #SilentCinema #TheGardenOfEden #FilmSky 1/7

Good news! If you missed this talk, you can now watch it over on YouTube: youtu.be/8bUzNsTlzRc?...

Everything you want, including a chance to experience nitrate film up close. 🎞️ At the The Nitrate Picture Show, Nitrate Touch offers a rare opportunity to handle original 35mm nitrate prints with gloves, a magnifying glass, and expert guidance.

✨TOMORROW NIGHT at 7:30 p.m. ✨ THE LONE WOLF RETURNS, with live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip Carli. (Ralph Ince, US 1926, 70 min., 35mm) Preceded by...UNMASKED (Grace Cunard, Francis Ford, US 1917, 11 min., 35mm) Part of our From Rochester, With Love series. 🎞️

Home Movie Day is coming to George Eastman Museum on Saturday, March 22! 🗓️ 🎥 [George Eastman home movies - Oak Lodge Nov. 1922] excerpt, (George Eastman, 1922 US)

See—the snow wasn't all bad ❄️ 📷 brittanyfordphoto #EastmanMuseum #RochesterNY #ThisIsRoc #VisitRoc #Photography

✨TONIGHT✨ we're kicking off our 2025 Wish You Were Here photography lecture series with an artist and activist whose vibrant photographic work encompasses themes of race, gender, and intergenerational representation—Lola Flash. 📷 Christa Holka

Before "Evoke: A Youthful Expression" closes in our community gallery, Gallery Obscura, join the student artists for a free panel discussion sharing their experience, creative processes, and participation in the exhibition.

Take a look inside some of the most interesting and unusual items in the Eastman Kodak Company Patent Museum collection 👀 🎤 In Focus: The Eastman Kodak Company Patent Museum Collection (Virtual) 🗓️ Friday, March 7 ⏰ 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. 🎟️ Free

✨TONIGHT at 7:30 p.m.✨ Recently seen in the Werner Herzog documentary THEATER OF THOUGHT, EARTH (35mm) is a stylized silent “film poem” about the creation of a collective farm and the conflicts between the poor peasants and wealthy landowners in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.

Lindsay McIntyre is a multi-disciplinary artist of Inuit and settler descent who often works in the medium of analog film. 🎞️

Preserving photographic objects isn't all fun and frames (but a lot of that, too!) 🖼️

TONIGHT: GUINEVERE(Audrey Wells, US 1999, 104 min., 35mm) 🎞️ Audrey Wells considered herself a screenwriter first, earning the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for GUINEVERE, which was also her directorial debut. Introduction by Deborah Stoiber, Collections Manager in the Moving Image Department.

✨TOMORROW✨ Members of the @gwnyfilmcritics.com will join Curator of Film Exhibitions Jared Case live to preview the Academy Awards ceremony. From the topsy-turvy awards season to the biggest hits and misses of nomination day, nothing is off-limits. Saturday, March 1 at 2 p.m. at the Dryden.

✨TONIGHT✨ at 7:30 p.m.: ELIZABETH (35MM) Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actress, the film is filled with esteemed British thespians, including Richard Attenborough, Geoffrey Rush, John Gielgud, Emily Mortiner, and Daniel Craig.

Don't miss a moment at the museum this weekend 📷 ✨ Saturday, February 22 ✨ 🌷 Dutch Connection Coffee Talk at 9 a.m. 🎞️ ELIZABETH (35MM) at 2 p.m. in @drydentheatre.bsky.social 🎞️ THEATRE OF THOUGHT at 7:30 p.m. in @drydentheatre.bsky.social

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