Women and Film History International
@wfhinetwork.bsky.social
Proud feminists behind the WOMEN AND THE SILENT SCREEN conferences and other initiatives and events. https://www.wfhi.org/
The Call for Papers for the 13th International Women and the Silent Screen Conference (2027) is now live on our website! La convocatoria de participación para el XIII Congreso Internacional de Mujeres y el Cine Silente (2027) ya está disponible en nuestra página web. www.wfhi.org/2027-mexico-...
There are still two months left to submit to our Student Project Award!
Women and Film History International@wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 2mo agoWFHI 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
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
📣 Save the Date for Entr'acte 2026 on November 6 & 7! More information will be shared in the coming months!
"This young female artist had the vision and skills to create a timeless classic that still speaks to audiences across the world. Even 100 years on, we're still thinking, 'How did she do that?'" https://loom.ly/4jb1RoQ
'She beat Disney by a decade': How a 26-year-old German woman made the world's oldest animated feature film
German director Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed was released a century ago in 1926 – and now stands as the world's oldest animated feature film
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Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro's "Aesthetics of Development: Modern Industries in the Ehlers Sisters’ Mexican Films (1919-1922)" is now FREE for a limited time! doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
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
New online resource: "Searching for Lotte Reiniger" From our partners at @davif.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy comes a visual analysis of film historical metadata by Sarah-Mai Dang (@sarahmaidang.bsky.social) & Christian Laesser. lotte-reiniger.oabooks.de
Lotte Reiniger – What can data tell us about women* in film history?
The data visualization was created by the BMFTR research group "Aesthetics of Access. Visualizing Research Data on Women in Film History" (DAVIF) in collaboration with data visualization designer Chri...
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Women built early Hollywood from the ground up. The story of how they were written out of it is just as important as the story of what they created. Who were Hattie Tabourne, Elizabeth McGaffey, Julia Heron, and Viola Lawrence? 1/4
Please join us in welcoming the newest members of the WFHI Steering Committee: Rose Albayat, Elyse Singer, and Juju Pratiwi 🤍 Meet the entire Steering Committee on our website: www.wfhi.org/steering-com...
THE CINEMA OF ALICE GUY BLACHE, co-edited by Clara Auclair @clarasilentfilms.bsky.social and me, is now officially under contract with University of Illinois Press! 🥳 Thank you to our amazing contributors! #aliceguyblache #aliceguy #womensfilmhistory #feministfilmhistoriography #wfpp
Save the date for the next edition of our Women and the Silent Screen conference!
This piece on Feminist Film Curating Collectives has been in the works for a while!! 🎞️🏳️🌈 It was *such a joy* to speak to the organizers/curators of these crucial collectives! lareviewofbooks.org/article/femi... Long live the queer feminist film archive!!! ❤️🎞️📽️‼️
The Weirdness of the Archive, the Possibilities of the Present | Los Angeles Review of Books
On the global resurgence of feminist film curating collectives.
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Join Karen McNally for their virtual book launch which will focus on examining and revising film history in the aftermath of women's stories, past and present, that have come to light. 🔗 buff.ly/llwWK4F 🗓️ 18 March @illinoispress.bsky.social @profkarenmcnally.bsky.social @londonmetuni.bsky.social
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!
February’s riveting edition of ONLINE WITH SFFP is now streaming! 1/3
Meet Elaine Basil (pictured here with better-known documentarian Leo Seltzer)! Directed/co-directed at least three nonfiction films in late 1930s and ‘40s, including FROM HAND TO MOUTH for WPA. Naturally, I want to drop everything else I’m doing and learn more about her. archive.org/details/amer...
Delighted to be hosting a book launch for the new edited collection WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD’S DREAM FACTORY: TALES OF INEQUALITY, ABUSE & RESISTANCE. Join us March 18. 📚 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Book Launch: Women in Hollywood’s Dream Factory
A virtual launch of Women in Hollywood’s Dream Factory: Tales of Inequality, Abuse, and Resistance edited by Karen McNally.
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Congrats to @hahumiaomiao.bsky.social!! Her book To Be an Actress: Labor & Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World won Honorable Mention in the Media, Performance & Visual Studies category of the 2026 Assoc for Asian American Studies Book Awards!! www.ucpress.edu/books/to-be-...
To Be an Actress by Yiman Wang - 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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In “Doing More with Less: Informed Speculation as Method,” Allyson Nadia Field embraces the forms of imaginative, creative, and experimental writing of film/media history while at the same time urging rigorous and responsible scholarship Download for free and hold it close— doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
Hey NYC nasty women!!! We're overjoyed to announce that Karen Pearlman's brilliant archival doc BREAKING PLATES will screen in NYC at Cinema Village on March 15 in the 2026 Socially Relevant Film Festival. 🍽️🌪️📽️ *Please spread the word and don't miss the film! ❤️* www.ratedsrfilms.org/the-schedule...
The 2026 Schedule at a Glance | Socially Relevant FF
This is a list of the films at our Rejoice Resist: BIPOC Films Program, March 12 & 13, and at Cinema Village from March 14-16. They are the documentaries, the narrative features, and one block of shor...
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Even though I was late today, was still inspiring to attend @aurspiers.bsky.social’s book talk @wfhinetwork.bsky.social event. Her work and the community of attendees virtually gathered to discuss is much needed during these challenging times!
Coming in April from @criterion.bsky.social! FINALLY! 🎉 @wfhinetwork.bsky.social www.criterion.com/boxsets/8685...
Join us this Friday for a fascinating dive into silent-era style. When films didn’t speak, fashion did. 1/5
Congrats to the indomitable @aurspiers.bsky.social on official publication of ARCHIVING THE PAST. Go to @ucpress.bsky.social to order your copy! @wfhinetwork.bsky.social is proud to be hosting virtual members-only book talk w/ Aurore later this month. To join WFHI... www.ucpress.edu/books/archiv...
Archiving the Past by Aurore Spiers - 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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Aurore Spiers@aurspiers.bsky.social · 8mo agoIt'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
🎬 Wien: Vom 16. Januar bis 04. Februar 2026 zeigen das Filmarchiv Austria und das Filmmuseum Düsseldorf die Retrospektive “First Action Heroes”. Spielort ist das Metro Kinokulturhaus: www.stummfilm-magazin.de/aktuelles/ar... #stummfilmmagazin #filmmuseumdüsseldorf #filmarchivaustria #wien
Wien: Retrospektive und Ausstellung “First Action Heroes”
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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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