Women Film Pioneers Project
@wfpproject.bsky.social
A digital publication & resource that advances research on silent-era women filmmakers. Published by the Columbia University Libraries.
https://wfpp.columbia.edu/
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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...
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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”
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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…
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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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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 🎞️🎊 !!
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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
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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...
New to WFPP: Dagmar Brunow on Swedish writer and screenwriter Elin Wägner!
Elin Wägner – 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
December 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New to WFPP: Dagmar Brunow on Swedish writer and screenwriter Elin Wägner!
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Together with Annie van den Oever, I was honored to interview Jane Gaines for NECSUS. Come for the history of Visible Evidence & @wfpproject.bsky.social; stay for the reflections on speculative historiography, Fredric Jameson's legacy & current attacks on higher ed.
necsus-ejms.org/the-historic...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Together with Annie van den Oever, I was honored to interview Jane Gaines for NECSUS. Come for the history of Visible Evidence & @wfpproject.bsky.social; stay for the reflections on speculative historiography, Fredric Jameson's legacy & current attacks on higher ed.
necsus-ejms.org/the-historic...
necsus-ejms.org/the-historic...
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New issue alert!! I was chuffed to write this short piece on Ossi Oswalda for FILMBLATT -- *many thanks* to Philipp Stiasny for translating to German. 🎞️
www.filmblatt.de/2025/11/22/f...
Lots of gems in here by @mharrabin.bsky.social et al + gorgeous images courtesy of @blomamsterdam.bsky.social!
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Lots of gems in here by @mharrabin.bsky.social et al + gorgeous images courtesy of @blomamsterdam.bsky.social!
November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
New issue alert!! I was chuffed to write this short piece on Ossi Oswalda for FILMBLATT -- *many thanks* to Philipp Stiasny for translating to German. 🎞️
www.filmblatt.de/2025/11/22/f...
Lots of gems in here by @mharrabin.bsky.social et al + gorgeous images courtesy of @blomamsterdam.bsky.social!
www.filmblatt.de/2025/11/22/f...
Lots of gems in here by @mharrabin.bsky.social et al + gorgeous images courtesy of @blomamsterdam.bsky.social!
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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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Advance copies of this beaut arrived today! Congrats to author @aurspiers.bsky.social!! Can’t wait for you all to read it.
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Archiving the Past by Aurore Spiers - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Advance copies of this beaut arrived today! Congrats to author @aurspiers.bsky.social!! Can’t wait for you all to read it.
www.ucpress.edu/books/archiv...
www.ucpress.edu/books/archiv...
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Horror ppl should watch Hell-Bound Train (James & Eloyce Gist, 1930) on @criterionchannl.bsky.social. The Gists were Black evangelists & amateur filmmakers who used their films in their sermons. This film is a catalogue of sins. Even w/ no budget, it has surprisingly haunting moments throughout.
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Horror ppl should watch Hell-Bound Train (James & Eloyce Gist, 1930) on @criterionchannl.bsky.social. The Gists were Black evangelists & amateur filmmakers who used their films in their sermons. This film is a catalogue of sins. Even w/ no budget, it has surprisingly haunting moments throughout.
New to WFPP: Richard Abel on film reviewer and writer Tildy Winks!
The woman using this catchy nom de plume, unfortunately, remains unknown, unlike earlier "girl reporters" or concurrent film reviewers.
The woman using this catchy nom de plume, unfortunately, remains unknown, unlike earlier "girl reporters" or concurrent film reviewers.
Tildy Winks – 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
November 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
New to WFPP: Richard Abel on film reviewer and writer Tildy Winks!
The woman using this catchy nom de plume, unfortunately, remains unknown, unlike earlier "girl reporters" or concurrent film reviewers.
The woman using this catchy nom de plume, unfortunately, remains unknown, unlike earlier "girl reporters" or concurrent film reviewers.
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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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A Virgin's Sacrifice (1922) is now streaming on the NFPF site with new music by Michael Mortilla. Starring Corinne Griffith, this snowbound tale was preserved photochemically by @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social and is available for home viewing for the first time.
www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-fi...
www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-fi...
October 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A Virgin's Sacrifice (1922) is now streaming on the NFPF site with new music by Michael Mortilla. Starring Corinne Griffith, this snowbound tale was preserved photochemically by @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social and is available for home viewing for the first time.
www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-fi...
www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-fi...
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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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Must-see melodrama alert. Next Sunday, one of the best films in the BFI Melodrama season, the silent 1925 STELLA DALLAS, screens in NFT1 with the incredible orchestral score by Stephen Horne – who also introduces the screening. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
Buy cinema tickets for Stella Dallas + intro by composer Stephen Horne | BFI Southbank
2025-11-02T15:00:00.000, NFT1
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October 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Must-see melodrama alert. Next Sunday, one of the best films in the BFI Melodrama season, the silent 1925 STELLA DALLAS, screens in NFT1 with the incredible orchestral score by Stephen Horne – who also introduces the screening. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
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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
𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐅𝐏𝐏: Bart G. Moens's overview essay "Casting Shadows: Women’s Work at the Projection Department of Maison de la Bonne Presse (1895-1920)."
Casting Shadows: Women’s Work at the Projection Department of Maison de la Bonne Presse (1895-1920) – 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
October 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐅𝐏𝐏: Bart G. Moens's overview essay "Casting Shadows: Women’s Work at the Projection Department of Maison de la Bonne Presse (1895-1920)."
Happy Birthday to Danish actress/stuntwoman/screenwriter Emilie Sannom!
Emilie Sannom – 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
September 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Happy Birthday to Danish actress/stuntwoman/screenwriter Emilie Sannom!
"For Lillian Chester, who wrote under the name Mrs. George Randolph Chester, the experience of 'collaboration' guided not only her encounter with the Hollywood industry, but almost every facet of her professional and personal life." wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-...
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Mrs. George Randolph Chester – 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
September 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"For Lillian Chester, who wrote under the name Mrs. George Randolph Chester, the experience of 'collaboration' guided not only her encounter with the Hollywood industry, but almost every facet of her professional and personal life." wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-...
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#BOTD
"Acting in hundreds of early comic films, writing six and directing ten of these, Ruth Stonehouse was involved in film production from a very early date." wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-... #BOTD
Ruth Stonehouse – 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
September 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"Acting in hundreds of early comic films, writing six and directing ten of these, Ruth Stonehouse was involved in film production from a very early date." wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-... #BOTD