‘Film on Film’ again!

  • April 9, 2025
The British Film Institute just revealed the lineup for the 2025 Film on Film Festival, to be held June 12-15 at the BFI Southbank in London. This second edition is the eagerly awaited follow-up to the inaugural 2023 event, which was one of the more memorable film festivals of recent years. As we look forward to a return to the joys of analog film in all its variety, here’s my report on the first edition. It wasn’t so long ago that the phrase “film on film” would have been met with quizzical looks by anyone not talking about a behind-the-scenes “making of” documentary or perhaps a filmmaker biopic. But since the transition to digital capture, distribution, and preservation more than a decade ago, analog film has been nearly completely supplanted by digital projection in commercial cinemas. Analog film has been moved to the margins, and has undergone a series of shifts in the eyes of its various supporters and detractors: to some it is a technological has-been, a museum object, or a relic, while to others, it remains the only real way to watch a film, the carrier of a filmmaker’s true vision, and the key to a film’s survival into the future. To many in the world of fi...

Watching Nitrate!

  • May 30, 2024
The eighth <a href="https://www.eastman.org/nitrate-picture-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener nore...

“Thingness over Illustration”
All Straub-Huillet on film in Paris

  • February 28, 2024
Covering the 1975 New York Film Festival, critics Manny Farber and Patricia Paterson described the s...

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Filmmakers, artists, producers, archivists, distributors, programmers or members of the audience, whether involved in the festival network, the archival world, contemporary art, independent venues, or all kinds of film-making, from the movie industry to the underground, we assert the importance of building a future for photochemical film projection and intend to share resources toward that goal.