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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Even though I was late today, was still inspiring to attend @aurspiers.bsky.social’s book talk @wfhinetwork.bsky.social event. Her work and the community of attendees virtually gathered to discuss is much needed during these challenging times!
January 23, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Even though I was late today, was still inspiring to attend @aurspiers.bsky.social’s book talk @wfhinetwork.bsky.social event. Her work and the community of attendees virtually gathered to discuss is much needed during these challenging times!
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Coming in April from @criterion.bsky.social! FINALLY! 🎉
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January 17, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Coming in April from @criterion.bsky.social! FINALLY! 🎉
@wfhinetwork.bsky.social
www.criterion.com/boxsets/8685...
@wfhinetwork.bsky.social
www.criterion.com/boxsets/8685...
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Join us this Friday for a fascinating dive into silent-era style.
When films didn’t speak, fashion did.
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When films didn’t speak, fashion did.
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January 13, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Join us this Friday for a fascinating dive into silent-era style.
When films didn’t speak, fashion did.
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When films didn’t speak, fashion did.
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Congrats to the indomitable @aurspiers.bsky.social on official publication of ARCHIVING THE PAST. Go to @ucpress.bsky.social to order your copy! @wfhinetwork.bsky.social is proud to be hosting virtual members-only book talk w/ Aurore later this month. To join WFHI...
www.ucpress.edu/books/archiv...
www.ucpress.edu/books/archiv...
January 7, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Congrats to the indomitable @aurspiers.bsky.social on official publication of ARCHIVING THE PAST. Go to @ucpress.bsky.social to order your copy! @wfhinetwork.bsky.social is proud to be hosting virtual members-only book talk w/ Aurore later this month. To join WFHI...
www.ucpress.edu/books/archiv...
www.ucpress.edu/books/archiv...
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🎬 Wien: Vom 16. Januar bis 04. Februar 2026 zeigen das Filmarchiv Austria und das Filmmuseum Düsseldorf die Retrospektive “First Action Heroes”. Spielort ist das Metro Kinokulturhaus: www.stummfilm-magazin.de/aktuelles/ar...
#stummfilmmagazin #filmmuseumdüsseldorf #filmarchivaustria #wien
#stummfilmmagazin #filmmuseumdüsseldorf #filmarchivaustria #wien
Wien: Retrospektive und Ausstellung “First Action Heroes”
www.stummfilm-magazin.de
January 5, 2026 at 4:10 PM
🎬 Wien: Vom 16. Januar bis 04. Februar 2026 zeigen das Filmarchiv Austria und das Filmmuseum Düsseldorf die Retrospektive “First Action Heroes”. Spielort ist das Metro Kinokulturhaus: www.stummfilm-magazin.de/aktuelles/ar...
#stummfilmmagazin #filmmuseumdüsseldorf #filmarchivaustria #wien
#stummfilmmagazin #filmmuseumdüsseldorf #filmarchivaustria #wien
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Time to vote, vote, vote in the annual Silent London Poll of silent film excellence! silentlondon.co.uk/2025/12/21/t...
The Silent London Poll of 2025: vote for your winners now
Happy holiday Silent Londoners! They say that if you remember 2025, then you weren’t watching enough silent movies. How much do you recall? For myself I sure watched a lot of silent films, cl…
silentlondon.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Time to vote, vote, vote in the annual Silent London Poll of silent film excellence! silentlondon.co.uk/2025/12/21/t...
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It's here! Go and pre-order a copy of ARCHIVING THE PAST for yourself and for your library! The book uncovers the story of women in France who, from the 1920s–1970s, played critical roles in the production of global cinema's history, as archivists, witnesses, and activists. @ucpress.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It's here! Go and pre-order a copy of ARCHIVING THE PAST for yourself and for your library! The book uncovers the story of women in France who, from the 1920s–1970s, played critical roles in the production of global cinema's history, as archivists, witnesses, and activists. @ucpress.bsky.social
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FUEL THE ADVOCACY THAT SAFEGUARDS CINEMA’S PAST 🎞️
Advocacy is a core part of San Francisco Film Preserve’s mission. Your support helps elevate the essential work of moving image preservation—here in the Bay Area and across the global film heritage community. #FilmSky
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Advocacy is a core part of San Francisco Film Preserve’s mission. Your support helps elevate the essential work of moving image preservation—here in the Bay Area and across the global film heritage community. #FilmSky
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December 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
FUEL THE ADVOCACY THAT SAFEGUARDS CINEMA’S PAST 🎞️
Advocacy is a core part of San Francisco Film Preserve’s mission. Your support helps elevate the essential work of moving image preservation—here in the Bay Area and across the global film heritage community. #FilmSky
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Advocacy is a core part of San Francisco Film Preserve’s mission. Your support helps elevate the essential work of moving image preservation—here in the Bay Area and across the global film heritage community. #FilmSky
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It was a joy to write this festival report on Il Cinema Ritrovato '25 in Bologna!! (Highlights include contortionist snake ladies 🐍 & smashing the patriarchy! 🔨) FREE to read via @ucpress.bsky.social in the sizzling new issue of @filmquarterly.bsky.social 🎞️🎊 !!
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December 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
It was a joy to write this festival report on Il Cinema Ritrovato '25 in Bologna!! (Highlights include contortionist snake ladies 🐍 & smashing the patriarchy! 🔨) FREE to read via @ucpress.bsky.social in the sizzling new issue of @filmquarterly.bsky.social 🎞️🎊 !!
online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/7...
online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/7...
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Hot off the press!!! "Smashing the Patriarchy in Bologna: A Feminist Dispatch from Il Cinema Ritrovato" by CFNW co-curator @hennefem.bsky.social is now *live* and FREE to read in the new issue of Film Quarterly!! 🎞️😍 @filmquarterly.bsky.social
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December 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Hot off the press!!! "Smashing the Patriarchy in Bologna: A Feminist Dispatch from Il Cinema Ritrovato" by CFNW co-curator @hennefem.bsky.social is now *live* and FREE to read in the new issue of Film Quarterly!! 🎞️😍 @filmquarterly.bsky.social
online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/7...
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• GRANTS AND PRIZES
SFFP sponsors two annual travel grants to enable young professionals to attend the Association of Moving Image Archivists conference. We also support the @wfhinetwork.bsky.social student essay prize.
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SFFP sponsors two annual travel grants to enable young professionals to attend the Association of Moving Image Archivists conference. We also support the @wfhinetwork.bsky.social student essay prize.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
• GRANTS AND PRIZES
SFFP sponsors two annual travel grants to enable young professionals to attend the Association of Moving Image Archivists conference. We also support the @wfhinetwork.bsky.social student essay prize.
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SFFP sponsors two annual travel grants to enable young professionals to attend the Association of Moving Image Archivists conference. We also support the @wfhinetwork.bsky.social student essay prize.
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Check out former WFHI steering committee member Canan Balan's new book "Torn is the Curtain: Early Film Cultures in Istanbul."
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BalanT...
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BalanT...
Torn is the Curtain: Early Film Cultures in Istanbul | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Check out former WFHI steering committee member Canan Balan's new book "Torn is the Curtain: Early Film Cultures in Istanbul."
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BalanT...
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BalanT...
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Found by a student of my colleague Eli Boonin-Vail’s at SUNY Albany:
New Rochelle, NY: theater taken over by Thanhouser star Fan Bourke in 1916. She says: “I think that a woman is as well qualified, if not better qualified, to run a neighborhood motion picture theatre, than a man."
New Rochelle, NY: theater taken over by Thanhouser star Fan Bourke in 1916. She says: “I think that a woman is as well qualified, if not better qualified, to run a neighborhood motion picture theatre, than a man."
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Found by a student of my colleague Eli Boonin-Vail’s at SUNY Albany:
New Rochelle, NY: theater taken over by Thanhouser star Fan Bourke in 1916. She says: “I think that a woman is as well qualified, if not better qualified, to run a neighborhood motion picture theatre, than a man."
New Rochelle, NY: theater taken over by Thanhouser star Fan Bourke in 1916. She says: “I think that a woman is as well qualified, if not better qualified, to run a neighborhood motion picture theatre, than a man."
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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/
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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. 😍🎶🎞️
lumiere-brugge.be/stom2025/
lumiere-brugge.be/stom2025/
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. 😍🎶🎞️
lumiere-brugge.be/stom2025/
lumiere-brugge.be/stom2025/
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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…
silentlondon.co.uk
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!!
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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!