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Please note: The exhibition Erica Baum: the bite in the ribbon—a paper show is closed today due to technical issues in the gallery. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to reopen it as soon as possible.

Film, the Living Record of Our Memory

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Rochester Premiere As we move ever further into the digital age, our audiovisual heritage seems to be taken increasingly for granted. However, much of our filmed history and cinema has already been lost forever. Directed by 2007 graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation (here at the George Eastman Museum) Inés Toharia Terán, the film features several current and former East man Museum staff members.

still from Film, the Living Record of Our Memory
still from Film, the Living Record of Our Memory 
still from Film, the Living Record of Our Memory 
still from Film, the Living Record of Our Memory 
still from Film, the Living Record of Our Memory 
still from Film, the Living Record of Our Memory 

Film, the Living Record of Our Memory

https://www.eastman.org/event/talks-film-screenings-special-events/film-living-record-our-memory-0 -

Rochester Premiere As we move ever further into the digital age, our audiovisual heritage seems to be taken increasingly for granted. However, much of our filmed history and cinema has already been lost forever. Directed by 2007 graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation (here at the George Eastman Museum) Inés Toharia Terán, the film features several current and former Eastman Museum staff members

still from Film, the Living Record of Our Memory 
still from Film, the Living Record of Our Memory 
still from Film, the Living Record of Our Memory 
still from Film, the Living Record of Our Memory 
still from Film, the Living Record of Our Memory 
still from Film, the Living Record of Our Memory

Fragment of an Empire

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Curator’s Choice One of the last masterpieces of silent cinema, Fragment of an Empire is being rediscovered and reinterpreted every couple of decades. Praised by Chaplin, Eisenstein and Pabst, it is as controversial as its director, Fridrikh Ermler, a die-hard communist, a devoted Freudian, winner of four Stalin prizes and a man who, according to Pope John XXIII, had “the eyes of a saint.” Vladimir Deshevov's original 1929 piano score performed by Dr. Philip C. Carli.

still from Fragment of an Empire

Drive My Car

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Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s latest film is expanded from a short story by Haruki Murakami. Winner of the Best Screenplay award at the Cannes Film Festival, this film is Japan’s official entry into the Best International Film Oscar category.

still from Drive My Car

You Bring Our Work to Life

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Pan Twardowski Władysław Starewicz, Russia, 1916 Here is our digital restoration of the 1916 Russian film, Pan Twardowski, directed by Władysław Starewicz, loosely based on a Polish folk legend and the Faustian tale. Pan Twardowski survived in a single nitrate print, held in the collection here at the George Eastman Museum. The print is suffering from severe nitrate decomposition. Fortunately, an initial black and white preservation negative was made back in 1980. For this digital restoration, we have scanned the preservation negative and are combining it with the single nitrate print, which

You Bring Our Work to Life

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Pinto Ben William S. Hart, United States, 1915 This year the Moving Image Department has embarked on a multiyear project funded by the Louis B. Mayer Foundation to reconstruct and restore 11 films of one of the first western superstars, William S. Hart. Currently we are working on the 1915 Hart film, Pinto Ben. The George Eastman Museum has conducted a worldwide search for the best remaining film elements, which will be scanned, digitally reconstructed, restored, and finally recorded back out to 35 mm film. For this two reel film, we are combining sections of four different prints—two from the

One Hundred Years Ago: George Eastman in 1922

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This annual display in the historic mansion provides a glimpse of George Eastman’s life and work one hundred years ago. The new selection of objects highlight the goings on in 1922—most notably the opening of the Eastman School of Music and the Eastman Theatre in downtown Rochester. 

Anastasia Samoylova: FloodZone

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Anastasia Samoylova’s photographs draw us in with the promise of luxurious paradise but then reveal a crumbling landscape that nature promises to reclaim. In FloodZone, Samoylova focuses on the southern US, where the sought-after tropical climate drives the real estate market to continue to build upon land that is slipping into the ocean.