Happy Saturday #SilentFilm world! 🌇 It's only a NEW PODCAST ALERT! Our newest release features the very wonderful @katesac.bsky.social - film curator, scholar, and editor based in Amsterdam. 🎧️ Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/4Hbk... 🖥️ Read blog/transcript: hippfest.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/h...

HippCast Episode 37

“One of these days men are going to get over the fool idea that women have no brains…and quit getting insulted at the thought that a skirt-wearer can do their work quite as well as they can. And I …

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WFHI is pleased to announce the inaugural Women and Film History International Student Project Award. Sponsored by @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social. Visit our website for more info: www.wfhi.org/student-proj... Apply by September 15, 2026

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Tanya Goldman@tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Proud of my colleagues on the @wfhinetwork.bsky.social board for launching our inaugural International Student Project Award sponsored by @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social! Please share widely; deadline 15 September. www.wfhi.org/student-proj...

"If we’re only considering the already anointed and only looking at features, then we’re missing what the full range of cinema was at the time" Jay Weissberg on programming the Pordenone Silent Film Festival www.sensesofcinema.com/2026/state-o...

Where Past and Present collide: Pordenone’s Silent Film Festival – Senses of Cinema

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Happy International Women's Day! WFHI is committed to fostering and supporting scholarly, archival, and creative work on women's global film history. 👋 Not yet a member of WFHI? Join today: www.wfhi.org/join 🙏 If you became a member since Spring 2025, you're all set. Thank you for your support!

Time to vote, vote, vote in the annual Silent London Poll of silent film excellence! silentlondon.co.uk/2025/12/21/t...

The Silent London Poll of 2025: vote for your winners now

Happy holiday Silent Londoners! They say that if you remember 2025, then you weren’t watching enough silent movies. How much do you recall? For myself I sure watched a lot of silent films, cl…

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Aurore Spiers@aurspiers.bsky.social · 11mo ago

It's here! Go and pre-order a copy of ARCHIVING THE PAST for yourself and for your library! The book uncovers the story of women in France who, from the 1920s–1970s, played critical roles in the production of global cinema's history, as archivists, witnesses, and activists. @ucpress.bsky.social

FUEL THE ADVOCACY THAT SAFEGUARDS CINEMA’S PAST 🎞️ Advocacy is a core part of San Francisco Film Preserve’s mission. Your support helps elevate the essential work of moving image preservation—here in the Bay Area and across the global film heritage community. #FilmSky 1/6

It was a joy to write this festival report on Il Cinema Ritrovato '25 in Bologna!! (Highlights include contortionist snake ladies 🐍 & smashing the patriarchy! 🔨) FREE to read via @ucpress.bsky.social in the sizzling new issue of @filmquarterly.bsky.social 🎞️🎊 !! online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/7...

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....

🎬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

Excited to be in Bruges, and at this festival, this weekend!

Maggie Hennefeld@hennefem.bsky.social · last yr.

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/

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!

🎥✨ Step into the world of early cinema innovation! Join us Friday, September 19, for the next edition of ONLINE WITH SFFP: Preserving Douglass Crockwell’s Mutoscopes. 1/5

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...

Come break plates with us today at #IlCinemaRitrovato!!! 4:30pm in DAMSLab 🎊😍🎞️ @karenpearlman.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social @richardjamesallen.bsky.social @katesac.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social app.ilcinemaritrovato.it/show?id=82688

@physicaltv.bsky.social @nastysilents.bsky.social's BREAKING PLATES screening at Il Cinema Ritrovato this Sun, June 22, 4.30pm. Tix: www.google.com/url?q=https:... Join @karenpearlman.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social Elif Kaynakci, Kate Saccone & @richardjamesallen.bsky.social for the panel/Q&A!

#bornonthisday: actress, director, producer, and screenwriter Helen Holmes!

Helen Holmes – Women Film Pioneers Project

Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

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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...

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...

Incomplete by Alix Beeston, Stefan Solomon - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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New in #openaccess! STRETCHING THE ARCHIVES TOWARD A GLOBAL FILM WOMEN’S FILM HERITAGE. Eds. Lizelle Bisschoff, Ana Grgić, Stefanie Van de Peer. Book has particular emphasis on feminist cultural memory and film heritage in the Global South. www.archivebooks.org/stretching-t...

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 Silent London Poll of 2024: vote for your winners now

Season’s greetings Silent Londoners. It has been a whirlwind of a year. How much do you remember? Personally, I watched silent movies on three different continents this year, so I have some g…

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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!

Women Film Pioneers Project@wfpproject.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Nederlands Silent Film Festival runs from January 16-19, 2025! There's already a great article about the festival (in Dutch) in Filmkrant, which focuses on the many women film pioneers featured in this year's lineup (with a shout-out to WFPP 🥰)! filmkrant.nl/artikel/nede...

TO SAVE AND PROJECT, MoMA's annual festival of preserved films, starts tonight and continues through Jan. 30. www.moma.org/calendar/fil...

Let's do a silent movie alphabet! A is for The Adventures of Prince Achmed

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...

The Silent London Poll of 2024: vote for your winners now

Season’s greetings Silent Londoners. It has been a whirlwind of a year. How much do you remember? Personally, I watched silent movies on three different continents this year, so I have some g…

silentlondon.co.uk