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Refracted light: Jerome Hiler’s Cinema Before 1300 is a discursive exploration of Gothic cathedrals’ luminous stained glass and a crucial part of a retrospective at MoMA

Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler are returning to New York. Partners in life and cinema for nearly sixty years, this month, MoMA and Anthology Film Archives will present a panoply of screenings of their experimental, personal, and mostly silent films—spanning from their earliest endeavors of the 1960s when they were immersed in New York’s cross cultural artistic bloom, to more recent poetic transmissions from their perch in San Francisco.

The Cosmos Cinema Educational Program develops the dynamic between cinema and cosmos that is at the core of the 14th Shanghai Biennale.

The first movies were silent and they established America’s movie industry. But many of these early films no longer exist. A new project aims to capture the flavor of these movies by digitizing old advertisements for them and publishing the material online.

In January 1942, Lena Horne signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She wasn’t the first Black performer to sign with a major studio, but it

A new exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures highlights how Black cinema, despite the challenges of American racism, has carved its own paths throughout history.

La Jolla Historical Society Executive Director Heath Fox to retire this fall La Jolla Historical Society Executive Director Heath Fox is pictured with his wife, Terry. (File) Print After nine years, a full rehabilitation of Wisteria Cottage, an overhaul of programming and much more, Heath Fox will retire this fall as executive director of the La Jolla Historical Society and conclude a 25-year career as a museum director and an arts and culture professional. “I think it’s time,” he...