The first JTS, “Archiving of the Moving Image in the 21st Century”, was organized 36 years ago at the Swedish Film Institute by FIAF & FIAT/IFTA. Find its proceedings at: buff.ly/2SBnkHI & send us your proposals for the 2019 edition! buff.ly/2RNotrk #avpres

The submission deadline for two conferences in September is extended: IASA 50th Annual Conference, Sep 30th - Oct 3rd. CFP: buff.ly/2SHKuMx Joint Technical Symposium Joint Technical Symposium, Oct 3rd - Oct 5th. CFP: buff.ly/2N2RZby Deadline: 22 February.

Remember - NEDCC has a free online textbook available for you: "Fundamenatals of AV Preservation." Developed in partnership with AVP. Covering grooved, magnetic, film, & optical media, plus reformatting & disaster preparedness best practices. nedcc.org/avfun

Happy #InternationalWomansDay ! We’re celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth with a selection of past articles chronicling histories of film, TV, radio, comics & digital media outside the West. ucpress.edu/blog/41962/fem…

Happy #InternationalWomensDay Celebrate with our new feature, #ThisGirlFriday highlighting the contribution of women to film history & heritage. This week, head over to The Cinema Museum to find out about their ongoing series, Women & Cocaine cinemamuseum.org.uk/2019/women-coc…

BREAKING: The 2019 FIAT/IFTA World Conference will take place at the Rixos Hotel in Dubrovnik, on October 22nd - 25th. The conference title is "Champions of Value and Trust. AV Archives in the all-media world." fiatifta.org/index.php/2019…

#Podcast 2nd episode of our podcast #TheConversation - #TheSoundOfSilence is already out! Listen to maestro Antonio Coppola talk about musical identities and improvisation here: soundcloud.com/user-487891429…

Listen to @NeilKBrand speaking about silent film accompaniment at #IlCinemaRitrovato 2018 on Peeping Archivist' #Podcast #TheConversation - #TheSoundOfSilence 🎧 soundcloud.com/user-487891429…

Hey Peepers! 🎧Would you like to hear ouf favourite one-man orchestra, PuffinSteve discuss silent film accompaniment? The full interview is here: soundcloud.com/user-487891429…

A film inspection demo & talk on becoming a film archivist by @SparseCinema at Cinema Rediscovered

The 2020 FIAF Symposium call for papers is now open! 🙂 More info here => fiaf2020.unam.mx <=

It began with a tweet...and then I started speculating about #archives, #NFTs, #AI and the commodification of history and amnesia. This is my first piece for WIRED. wired.com/story/nfts-and…

A fire at the Brazilian Cinemateque last night in São Paulo. 4 tons of materials, 2K prints lost. After the fire at the National Museum and multiple calls 4help from the film community(20 days ago I called it out in Cannes), nothing done. It doesn’t even feel like an accident.

Walter Salles a envoyé cette nuit les messages ci-après. Soutien à la Cinémathèque Brésilienne ! ⁦La Cinémathèque⁩ ⁦Le CNC⁩

CINEMATECA BRASILEIRA ATOS PELA CONTRATAÇÃO IMEDIATA DE TÉCNICOS EM PRESERVAÇÃO AUDIOVISUAL E SALVAGUARDA DO QUE RESTOU DO ACERVO 7/08, 14h SP - Cinemateca Brasileira RJ - MAM Rio DF - Palácio do Planalto PR - Cinemateca de Curitiba RS - Cinemateca do Capitólio

After realising he hadn’t yet signed the petition to save the The Cinema Museum Harold was reminded by his good friends to sign it there and then. Don’t be like Harold. Sign it NOW before it’s too late: change.org/p/love-cinema-…

Not seeing a lot of awareness out there about the fact that India's Films Division, Directorate of Film Festivals, National Film Archive, and Children’s Film Society are being merged with the NFDC and having their offices closed next month. Very bad news for film.