Jan-Christopher Horak will deliver the James Card Memorial Lecture as part of the Nitrate Picture Show. Open to all NPS passholders.
Jan-Christopher Horak is the former director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive and previously held leadership positions at Universal Studios, the Munich Filmmuseum, and the George Eastman Museum. Dr. Horak was founding vice president, and later president, of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. He has served on the executive committee of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). He is currently a faculty member of the University of Miami’s Los Angeles Internship Program. Named an Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Dr. Horak is also the recipient of the Katherine Singer Kovács Essay Award and the Reinhold Schünzel Prize. Dr. Horak’s recent publications include Cinema Between Latin America and Los Angeles: Origins to 1960 and Hollywood Goes Latin: Spanish‑Language Filmmaking in Los Angeles (both 2019), and as co‑editor, the award-winning L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema (2015). He has published more than three hundred articles and reviews in international publications. His biweekly blog can be read at archivalspaces.com.
About the James Card Memorial Lecture
Since 2000, the George Eastman Museum has honored the legacy of its first film curator and founder of the moving image collection, James Card (1915–2000), with an annual lecture by a visiting scholar, filmmaker, festival director, or film preservation specialist. The most recent lectures were delivered by Paul C. Spehr, Alexander Horwath, and Elaine Burrows.