Found by a student of my colleague Eli Boonin-Vail’s at SUNY Albany: New Rochelle, NY: theater taken over by Thanhouser star Fan Bourke in 1916. She says: “I think that a woman is as well qualified, if not better qualified, to run a neighborhood motion picture theatre, than a man."

🎬Our interview series "Data Practices, Provenance, and Categorizations in Film History" is out now! 👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Our #DAVIF project partners discuss how data practices and institutional and theoretical frameworks shape film-historical #metadata. #digitalfilmhistory #culturalheritage

I find it v difficult to put into words how honored and lucky i feel to have edited this issue on feminist historical methods, to have had so many important pieces of writing and thinking entrusted to me over these last few years. 1/ online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4

Our Fall 2025 issue "Notes on Historical Methods" is now live! In her introduction, Katherine Groo reflects on the voices of historical writing, the long history of feminist methods, and the guiding concept and structure of the "note" itself. Open access for a limited time: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

Exciting new documentary entering circulation! ELVIRA NOTARI: BEYOND SILENCE about Italy’s first woman director + journey to bring her work back to life. Trailer (w/ English subs) here. First learned of Notari via Giuliana Bruno’s classic monograph STREETWALKING ON A RUINED MAP vimeo.com/1125241996

We actively are seeking hosts for future Women and the Silent Screen conferences, including WSS 2027! A helpful potential host info sheet & the application form can be found here: www.wfhi.org/about-wss. If you are interested in hosting WSS 2027, please submit a proposal by 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟕, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓.

Great line-up for the Silent Film Festival in Bruges this week!!! Including guest intros by @wfhinetwork.bsky.social Prez @katesac.bsky.social & live music by Maud Nelissen, Hilde Nash, Daan van den Hurk, & Kabir Khan. 😍🎶🎞️ lumiere-brugge.be/stom2025/

Friendly reminder, gentle colleagues. Propose ! Save the dates.

Word is out!!! The curators of Cinema's First Nasty Women -- Elif Kaynakci, @hennefem.bsky.social, @laurah.bsky.social -- will co-deliver the UCLA Copley on Silent Cinema & Costume Design at the Giornate del Cinema Muto this year. 👒☔🌪️ 📍 Thursday 9th October, Teatro Verdi in Pordenone Save the date!

Iris Barry on Radio 4! silentlondon.co.uk/2025/09/18/i...

We've reactivated WFHI's listserv!! You can join here: lists.simplelists.com/WFHINetwork/... We look forward to exchanging feminist film historiographical research (and research questions), relevant scholarly and archival news and events, resources, and more with you all!

Looking for a new beach read? We have you covered silentlondon.co.uk/2025/08/20/s...

🤩 🤩🤩 Our Treasurer @tanyagoldman.bsky.social is talented!

Yuliya Solntseva in THE CIGARETTE GIRL OF MOSSELPROM (1924). She was married to Aleksandr Dovzhenko and co-directed with him, going solo after his death. She won Best Director at Cannes for CHRONICLE OF FLAMING YEARS (1961), the first (and, for decades, only) woman to do so.

On Friday, July 18, Dr. Veronica Johnson will give an online presentation on the history of the Film Company of Ireland, and its co-founder Nell O’Mara Sullivan. Hosted by San Francisco Film Preserve, this event is not to be missed! Register here: filmpreserve.org/event/online...

Sold out screening of THE RED KIMONA (1925) at #IlCinemaRitrovato with brilliant intro by @shelleystamp.bsky.social & sizzling catalog notes by @katesac.bsky.social & live accomplishment by Meg Morley!!! 🎞️🎶🤩 festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezion...

Some great silent screenings at @cineredis.bsky.social this year, chiefly two films starring the wonderful Anna May Wong!

Don't miss the BREAKING PLATES screening on Sunday afternoon at Il Cinema Ritrovato! It's sure to be a smash with @hennefem.bsky.social, @karenpearlman.bsky.social, @richardjamesallen.bsky.social, and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi on stage 😀 festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezion...

Read about how much fun we just had at the Women and Silent Screen conference in Brussels/Antwerp from the one and only @pamhutch.bsky.social Many thanks to the organizers and @wfhinetwork.bsky.social who created this vital space for feminist scholarship & mayhem! silentlondon.co.uk/2025/06/15/c...

My head is spinning after all the *brilliant* presentations and screenings today at Women & the Silent Screen!!! 🎞️📚❤️ @wfhinetwork.bsky.social @aurspiers.bsky.social @clarasilentfilms.bsky.social @rutuja.bsky.social

Brilliant interview with @karenpearlman.bsky.social about her ecstatic new feminist archival doc, BREAKING PLATES, on the @nitrateville.bsky.social podcast!!! 🎞️🎶 nitrateville.com/viewtopic.ph... BREAKING PLATES & SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY is coming to a rep cinema near you, watch out!!! 🍽️🧨

*Breaking Plates is produced by @richardjamesallen.bsky.social for the @physicaltv.bsky.social Co.! For event updates check out our @wfpproject.bsky.social webpage: wfpp.columbia.edu/cinemas-firs...

Stella F. Simon was a widowed mother of 3 when she moved to NYC to study photography from 1923 to 1925. A year later, she went to Berlin to study filmmaking. https://buff.ly/4jGUKyu #BOTD

Brilliant line-up for this year's 2025 edition of HippFest -- Scotland's first & only silent film festival in the beautiful Hippodrome Cinema of Bo'Ness!!! www.hippodromecinema.co.uk/hippfest/ *The full schedule is now live*--including many online screenings & talks! 🎞️🎶😍 #SilentFilm

"Breaking Plates is metalepsis unbound .... Breaking plates, smashing frames, bursting out of constraints"‼️ adrianmartinfilmcritic.com/reviews/b/br... Thank you @adrianpmartin.bsky.social for this beautiful review of @karenpearlman.bsky.social's brilliant new film, BREAKING PLATES (2023)!! 🎞️🍽️🌪️

Notifications regarding Women and the Silent Screen XII submissions will be sent out slightly later than planned. Please expect to hear back around mid-February. The conference committee apologizes for any inconvenience that this delay may cause!

Congrats to @alixbeeston.bsky.social and @stefansolomon.bsky.social whose *phenomenal* collection INCOMPLETE won Best Edited Collection at this year’s @scmstudies.bsky.social Book Awards!! Proud to have it in my Feminist Media Histories series @ucpress.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/incomp...

New Open Access book on Archives and Global Women’s Film Heritage, edited by Lizelle Bisschoff, Ana Grgić and Stefanie Van de Peer Stretching the Archives: Toward a Global Women’s Film Heritage www.archivebooks.org/stretching-t...

Vote, vote!!

As it stand, we sadly don't have enough votes in this year's poll. If we don't get a few more surveys completed, it wouldn't be fair to name any winners – so please vote! silentlondon.co.uk/2024/12/22/t...

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan. 30-Feb. 9) has a "Focus on Katja Raganelli" section. Silent-era programs include: “Katja Raganelli Meets Alice Guy,” “Katja Raganelli Meets Lotte Reiniger,” and “Katja Raganelli Meets Margery Wilson." iffr.com/en/iffr/2025...

Holy cow! Do. Not. Miss. This.

Excited to be heading to the Netherlands Silent Film Festival tomorrow! 🎞️ 🎶 On Saturday, Anke Brouwers and I will present our program "Nice Work (if You Can Get It)," which is dedicated to women at work and working women of various kinds!

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐅𝐏𝐏: A profile on Canadian film critic Cathleen McCarthy! https://buff.ly/4hfkKiu

Folks teaching spring courses on feminism / cinema / archives, our double-issue of @femmediahist.bsky.social on "Curating Feminist Film Archives" is currently open access!!! @laurah.bsky.social would be happy to make syllabus suggestions for your course topic. 🎞️❤️ online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/10...

Happy Birthday to Florence Turner!

Celebrate your favourite silent film discoveries, and your silent film heroes, of 2024, by voting in the poll today silentlondon.co.uk/2024/12/22/t...

HBD to the magnificent Anna May Wong (1905-1961), who appeared in over 70 films and TV programs over her 42-year-long screen career!!! 🎞️🎉

Yes indeed, always more archiving, writing and curating to be done 💪

Sorry if you have been unable to vote in the poll over the past 24 hours or so. I had to put a few coins in the meter, but it should be back online now. Happy voting!

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Time to vote in the Silent London Poll of 2024! silentlondon.co.uk/2024/12/22/t...

As we approach the holiday I want to share some Christmas shorts directed by women. Czech animator Hermina Tyrlova, created wonderful worlds of wool & string. A stop motion innovator, her career spanned almost 60 years, 1927-86. Here is her delightful SNOWMAN (1966) www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtNo...

20% off with the code GIFTS 🎁 cup.columbia.edu/book/death-b...

Post-doctoral #opportunities working in an archive - Women's Screen work. #WomenInFilm. 👇 britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blo...

You still have this weekend to submit to Women and the Silent Screen XII, "Form and Feeling in Silent Cinema."

The surviving fragment of VICENTA (Musidora, 1919) is now streaming online on HENRI! www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/1...