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/
https://www.wfhi.org/
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We actively are seeking hosts for future Women and the Silent Screen conferences, including WSS 2027!
A helpful potential host info sheet & the application form can be found here: www.wfhi.org/about-wss.
If you are interested in hosting WSS 2027, please submit a proposal by 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟕, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓.
A helpful potential host info sheet & the application form can be found here: www.wfhi.org/about-wss.
If you are interested in hosting WSS 2027, please submit a proposal by 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟕, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓.
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🎬Our interview series "Data Practices, Provenance, and Categorizations in Film History" is out now! 👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Our #DAVIF project partners discuss how data practices and institutional and theoretical frameworks shape film-historical #metadata.
#digitalfilmhistory #culturalheritage
Our #DAVIF project partners discuss how data practices and institutional and theoretical frameworks shape film-historical #metadata.
#digitalfilmhistory #culturalheritage
Data Practices, Provenance, and Categorizations in Film History. Interviews with Scholars, Archivists, and Project Managers
The interviews in this collection were conducted by the BMFTR research group “Aesthetics of Access: Visualizing Research Data on Women in Film History” (DAVIF) (2021-2026) at the Institute of Media St...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🎬Our interview series "Data Practices, Provenance, and Categorizations in Film History" is out now! 👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Our #DAVIF project partners discuss how data practices and institutional and theoretical frameworks shape film-historical #metadata.
#digitalfilmhistory #culturalheritage
Our #DAVIF project partners discuss how data practices and institutional and theoretical frameworks shape film-historical #metadata.
#digitalfilmhistory #culturalheritage
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I find it v difficult to put into words how honored and lucky i feel to have edited this issue on feminist historical methods, to have had so many important pieces of writing and thinking entrusted to me over these last few years. 1/
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4
Volume 11 Issue 4 | Feminist Media Histories | University of California Press
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October 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I find it v difficult to put into words how honored and lucky i feel to have edited this issue on feminist historical methods, to have had so many important pieces of writing and thinking entrusted to me over these last few years. 1/
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4
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Our Fall 2025 issue "Notes on Historical Methods" is now live! In her introduction, Katherine Groo reflects on the voices of historical writing, the long history of feminist methods, and the guiding concept and structure of the "note" itself.
Open access for a limited time:
doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
Open access for a limited time:
doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
October 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Our Fall 2025 issue "Notes on Historical Methods" is now live! In her introduction, Katherine Groo reflects on the voices of historical writing, the long history of feminist methods, and the guiding concept and structure of the "note" itself.
Open access for a limited time:
doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
Open access for a limited time:
doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
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Exciting new documentary entering circulation! ELVIRA NOTARI: BEYOND SILENCE about Italy’s first woman director + journey to bring her work back to life. Trailer (w/ English subs) here. First learned of Notari via Giuliana Bruno’s classic monograph STREETWALKING ON A RUINED MAP
vimeo.com/1125241996
vimeo.com/1125241996
October 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Exciting new documentary entering circulation! ELVIRA NOTARI: BEYOND SILENCE about Italy’s first woman director + journey to bring her work back to life. Trailer (w/ English subs) here. First learned of Notari via Giuliana Bruno’s classic monograph STREETWALKING ON A RUINED MAP
vimeo.com/1125241996
vimeo.com/1125241996
We actively are seeking hosts for future Women and the Silent Screen conferences, including WSS 2027!
A helpful potential host info sheet & the application form can be found here: www.wfhi.org/about-wss.
If you are interested in hosting WSS 2027, please submit a proposal by 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟕, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓.
A helpful potential host info sheet & the application form can be found here: www.wfhi.org/about-wss.
If you are interested in hosting WSS 2027, please submit a proposal by 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟕, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓.
September 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We actively are seeking hosts for future Women and the Silent Screen conferences, including WSS 2027!
A helpful potential host info sheet & the application form can be found here: www.wfhi.org/about-wss.
If you are interested in hosting WSS 2027, please submit a proposal by 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟕, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓.
A helpful potential host info sheet & the application form can be found here: www.wfhi.org/about-wss.
If you are interested in hosting WSS 2027, please submit a proposal by 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟕, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓.
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Great line-up for the Silent Film Festival in Bruges this week!!! Including guest intros by @wfhinetwork.bsky.social Prez @katesac.bsky.social & live music by Maud Nelissen, Hilde Nash, Daan van den Hurk, & Kabir Khan. 😍🎶🎞️
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September 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Great line-up for the Silent Film Festival in Bruges this week!!! Including guest intros by @wfhinetwork.bsky.social Prez @katesac.bsky.social & live music by Maud Nelissen, Hilde Nash, Daan van den Hurk, & Kabir Khan. 😍🎶🎞️
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Friendly reminder, gentle colleagues. Propose !
Save the dates.
Save the dates.
CFP: Call for Proposals to present at the 2026 Orphan Film Symposium, "Crisis and Community,"
April 8-11, 2026, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio. wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...
April 8-11, 2026, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio. wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...
August 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Friendly reminder, gentle colleagues. Propose !
Save the dates.
Save the dates.
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Word is out!!! The curators of Cinema's First Nasty Women -- Elif Kaynakci, @hennefem.bsky.social, @laurah.bsky.social -- will co-deliver the UCLA Copley on Silent Cinema & Costume Design at the Giornate del Cinema Muto this year. 👒☔🌪️
📍 Thursday 9th October, Teatro Verdi in Pordenone
Save the date!
📍 Thursday 9th October, Teatro Verdi in Pordenone
Save the date!
September 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Word is out!!! The curators of Cinema's First Nasty Women -- Elif Kaynakci, @hennefem.bsky.social, @laurah.bsky.social -- will co-deliver the UCLA Copley on Silent Cinema & Costume Design at the Giornate del Cinema Muto this year. 👒☔🌪️
📍 Thursday 9th October, Teatro Verdi in Pordenone
Save the date!
📍 Thursday 9th October, Teatro Verdi in Pordenone
Save the date!
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Iris Barry on Radio 4! silentlondon.co.uk/2025/09/18/i...
Iris Barry on Radio 4
Where would we be without Iris Barry? Where would all the films be, more to the point? Iris Barry was a pioneering film critic and film preservationist whose life is every bit as interesting as the…
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September 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Iris Barry on Radio 4! silentlondon.co.uk/2025/09/18/i...
We've reactivated WFHI's listserv!!
You can join here:
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We look forward to exchanging feminist film historiographical research (and research questions), relevant scholarly and archival news and events, resources, and more with you all!
You can join here:
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We look forward to exchanging feminist film historiographical research (and research questions), relevant scholarly and archival news and events, resources, and more with you all!
September 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
We've reactivated WFHI's listserv!!
You can join here:
lists.simplelists.com/WFHINetwork/...
We look forward to exchanging feminist film historiographical research (and research questions), relevant scholarly and archival news and events, resources, and more with you all!
You can join here:
lists.simplelists.com/WFHINetwork/...
We look forward to exchanging feminist film historiographical research (and research questions), relevant scholarly and archival news and events, resources, and more with you all!
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Looking for a new beach read? We have you covered silentlondon.co.uk/2025/08/20/s...
Silent reading: Summer 2025 book reviews
Let Me Dream Again: Essays on the Moving Image, by Luke McKernan Sticking Place Books, September 2025, In case there could be anyone reading this site who doesn’t know, Luke McKernan is a media his…
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August 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Looking for a new beach read? We have you covered silentlondon.co.uk/2025/08/20/s...
Thank you to @tanyagoldman.bsky.social for these absolutely beautiful zines!
August 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Yuliya Solntseva in THE CIGARETTE GIRL OF MOSSELPROM (1924). She was married to Aleksandr Dovzhenko and co-directed with him, going solo after his death.
She won Best Director at Cannes for CHRONICLE OF FLAMING YEARS (1961), the first (and, for decades, only) woman to do so.
She won Best Director at Cannes for CHRONICLE OF FLAMING YEARS (1961), the first (and, for decades, only) woman to do so.
August 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Yuliya Solntseva in THE CIGARETTE GIRL OF MOSSELPROM (1924). She was married to Aleksandr Dovzhenko and co-directed with him, going solo after his death.
She won Best Director at Cannes for CHRONICLE OF FLAMING YEARS (1961), the first (and, for decades, only) woman to do so.
She won Best Director at Cannes for CHRONICLE OF FLAMING YEARS (1961), the first (and, for decades, only) woman to do so.
On Friday, July 18, Dr. Veronica Johnson will give an online presentation on the history of the Film Company of Ireland, and its co-founder Nell O’Mara Sullivan. Hosted by San Francisco Film Preserve, this event is not to be missed!
Register here: filmpreserve.org/event/online...
Register here: filmpreserve.org/event/online...
July 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
On Friday, July 18, Dr. Veronica Johnson will give an online presentation on the history of the Film Company of Ireland, and its co-founder Nell O’Mara Sullivan. Hosted by San Francisco Film Preserve, this event is not to be missed!
Register here: filmpreserve.org/event/online...
Register here: filmpreserve.org/event/online...
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Sold out screening of THE RED KIMONA (1925) at #IlCinemaRitrovato with brilliant intro by @shelleystamp.bsky.social & sizzling catalog notes by @katesac.bsky.social & live accomplishment by Meg Morley!!! 🎞️🎶🤩 festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezion...
June 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Sold out screening of THE RED KIMONA (1925) at #IlCinemaRitrovato with brilliant intro by @shelleystamp.bsky.social & sizzling catalog notes by @katesac.bsky.social & live accomplishment by Meg Morley!!! 🎞️🎶🤩 festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezion...
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Some great silent screenings at @cineredis.bsky.social this year, chiefly two films starring the wonderful Anna May Wong!
🎬Great films back on the big screen at Cinema Rediscovered (Wed 23 - Sun 27 July, Bristol)
Thanks to Silk Factory for this amazing new trailer showcasing some of our 80+ screenings and events lineup.
Passes & tickets are available with a 20% discount when you book 4+ screenings - link in bio 🎟️
Thanks to Silk Factory for this amazing new trailer showcasing some of our 80+ screenings and events lineup.
Passes & tickets are available with a 20% discount when you book 4+ screenings - link in bio 🎟️
June 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Some great silent screenings at @cineredis.bsky.social this year, chiefly two films starring the wonderful Anna May Wong!
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Don't miss the BREAKING PLATES screening on Sunday afternoon at Il Cinema Ritrovato! It's sure to be a smash with @hennefem.bsky.social, @karenpearlman.bsky.social, @richardjamesallen.bsky.social, and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi on stage 😀
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June 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Don't miss the BREAKING PLATES screening on Sunday afternoon at Il Cinema Ritrovato! It's sure to be a smash with @hennefem.bsky.social, @karenpearlman.bsky.social, @richardjamesallen.bsky.social, and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi on stage 😀
festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezion...
festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezion...
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Read about how much fun we just had at the Women and Silent Screen conference in Brussels/Antwerp from the one and only @pamhutch.bsky.social Many thanks to the organizers and @wfhinetwork.bsky.social who created this vital space for feminist scholarship & mayhem!
silentlondon.co.uk/2025/06/15/c...
silentlondon.co.uk/2025/06/15/c...
Catching trains, raising riots and trashing the kitchen: travels in feminist cinema
“Is this really what you want to learn from the past?” – Breaking Plates (Karen Pearlman, 2025) Let the train take the strain they say, and so I did, curating my own idiosyncratic, mostly silent, t…
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June 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Read about how much fun we just had at the Women and Silent Screen conference in Brussels/Antwerp from the one and only @pamhutch.bsky.social Many thanks to the organizers and @wfhinetwork.bsky.social who created this vital space for feminist scholarship & mayhem!
silentlondon.co.uk/2025/06/15/c...
silentlondon.co.uk/2025/06/15/c...
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My head is spinning after all the *brilliant* presentations and screenings today at Women & the Silent Screen!!! 🎞️📚❤️ @wfhinetwork.bsky.social @aurspiers.bsky.social @clarasilentfilms.bsky.social @rutuja.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
My head is spinning after all the *brilliant* presentations and screenings today at Women & the Silent Screen!!! 🎞️📚❤️ @wfhinetwork.bsky.social @aurspiers.bsky.social @clarasilentfilms.bsky.social @rutuja.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Brilliant interview with @karenpearlman.bsky.social about her ecstatic new feminist archival doc, BREAKING PLATES, on the @nitrateville.bsky.social podcast!!! 🎞️🎶
nitrateville.com/viewtopic.ph...
BREAKING PLATES & SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY is coming to a rep cinema near you, watch out!!! 🍽️🧨
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BREAKING PLATES & SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY is coming to a rep cinema near you, watch out!!! 🍽️🧨
March 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Brilliant interview with @karenpearlman.bsky.social about her ecstatic new feminist archival doc, BREAKING PLATES, on the @nitrateville.bsky.social podcast!!! 🎞️🎶
nitrateville.com/viewtopic.ph...
BREAKING PLATES & SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY is coming to a rep cinema near you, watch out!!! 🍽️🧨
nitrateville.com/viewtopic.ph...
BREAKING PLATES & SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY is coming to a rep cinema near you, watch out!!! 🍽️🧨
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*Breaking Plates is produced by @richardjamesallen.bsky.social for the @physicaltv.bsky.social Co.! For event updates check out our @wfpproject.bsky.social webpage: wfpp.columbia.edu/cinemas-firs...
Cinema’s First Nasty Women – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
wfpp.columbia.edu
March 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
*Breaking Plates is produced by @richardjamesallen.bsky.social for the @physicaltv.bsky.social Co.! For event updates check out our @wfpproject.bsky.social webpage: wfpp.columbia.edu/cinemas-firs...
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Stella F. Simon was a widowed mother of 3 when she moved to NYC to study photography from 1923 to 1925. A year later, she went to Berlin to study filmmaking.
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#BOTD
Stella F. Simon – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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February 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Stella F. Simon was a widowed mother of 3 when she moved to NYC to study photography from 1923 to 1925. A year later, she went to Berlin to study filmmaking.
https://buff.ly/4jGUKyu
#BOTD
https://buff.ly/4jGUKyu
#BOTD
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Brilliant line-up for this year's 2025 edition of HippFest -- Scotland's first & only silent film festival in the beautiful Hippodrome Cinema of Bo'Ness!!!
www.hippodromecinema.co.uk/hippfest/
*The full schedule is now live*--including many online screenings & talks! 🎞️🎶😍 #SilentFilm
www.hippodromecinema.co.uk/hippfest/
*The full schedule is now live*--including many online screenings & talks! 🎞️🎶😍 #SilentFilm
February 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Brilliant line-up for this year's 2025 edition of HippFest -- Scotland's first & only silent film festival in the beautiful Hippodrome Cinema of Bo'Ness!!!
www.hippodromecinema.co.uk/hippfest/
*The full schedule is now live*--including many online screenings & talks! 🎞️🎶😍 #SilentFilm
www.hippodromecinema.co.uk/hippfest/
*The full schedule is now live*--including many online screenings & talks! 🎞️🎶😍 #SilentFilm
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"Breaking Plates is metalepsis unbound .... Breaking plates, smashing frames, bursting out of constraints"‼️
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Thank you @adrianpmartin.bsky.social for this beautiful review of @karenpearlman.bsky.social's brilliant new film, BREAKING PLATES (2023)!! 🎞️🍽️🌪️
adrianmartinfilmcritic.com/reviews/b/br...
Thank you @adrianpmartin.bsky.social for this beautiful review of @karenpearlman.bsky.social's brilliant new film, BREAKING PLATES (2023)!! 🎞️🍽️🌪️
February 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"Breaking Plates is metalepsis unbound .... Breaking plates, smashing frames, bursting out of constraints"‼️
adrianmartinfilmcritic.com/reviews/b/br...
Thank you @adrianpmartin.bsky.social for this beautiful review of @karenpearlman.bsky.social's brilliant new film, BREAKING PLATES (2023)!! 🎞️🍽️🌪️
adrianmartinfilmcritic.com/reviews/b/br...
Thank you @adrianpmartin.bsky.social for this beautiful review of @karenpearlman.bsky.social's brilliant new film, BREAKING PLATES (2023)!! 🎞️🍽️🌪️