LECTURES, PUBLICATIONS, & DOCUMENTARY WORKS (selection)
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Illustrated Lectures
| New Directions in Independent Film Restoration | Presentation at Il Cinema Ritrovato; Bologna, 2023. |
| Fixing FILM | Featured presentation at Samuel Beckett and the Nonhuman, Vrije University, Brussels 2019. |
| Restoring Hoop Dreams | Presentation at Getting Real; International Documentary Association Conference; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, September 2018. |
| Essay and Esse | Keynote presentation at Essaydox Symposium, Doku.arts Festival, Berlin 2016. |
| Skill and Dilettantism in Canon Formation | Public premiere at Misfits: Time Based Media and the Museum, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, October 2015. |
| Operation CROSSROADS: A Restoration Case Study | Public premiere at Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 2013; in-progress version presented at Reel Thing Technical Symposium, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, August 2013. |
| A School of Seeing: Cinematic Perception in Museums and Galleries | Originally presented at the Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 2012. Made possible by the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. |
| Passing Shadows: Cassavetes and Mingus | Revised version presented at Cinefamily, Los Angeles, 2011; originally presented at EMP Music Conference, Seattle, 2008. |
| Digital Subjectivity: Restoring Barbara Loden's Wanda | ZdC Keynote, USC, Los Angeles, 2011. Originally presented at Reel Thing Technical Symposium, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, 2010 |
| The Savage Ear of Kent Mackenzie | Alternative Projections, Los Angeles Film Forum/USC, 2010. |
| Reconstructing the Avant-garde: Tom Chomont | International Experimental Media Congress/Images Festival, Toronto, 2010. |
| Anger Rising: The Restoration of Films of Kenneth Anger | Reel Thing TS, Eastman Kodak, Rochester, 2007; and Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Los Angeles, 2007. |
| In Search of the Lacuna: The Elusive Art of Film Preservation | Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center for the Arts, Cambridge, 2006. |
Publications (selection)
| Killer of Sheep: an Appreciation | Sight and Sound, December, 2022. |
| The Archival Impermanence Project, or: Performing Cinema in the Age of the Death of Everything | Caligari, Issue #4, Spring 2022. |
| Reframing Berkeley: The Form of Nonbeing | The Journal of Beckett Studies, Volume 28 No. 2, 2019. |
| Defogging WANDA | The Current, Criterion, 2019. |
| From FILM to NOTFILM | FILM and NOTFILM, DVD booklet essay - British Film Institute, 2017. |
| Thom Andersen, Re-zoopraxographer | Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxograher, DVD booklet essay, 2016. |
| Babel: The Remake | Incite, Fall, 2015. |
| Kent Mackenzie's THE EXILES: Reinventing the Real of Cinema | Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980, John Libbey Publishing, 2015. |
| Conservation at a Crossroads | Artforum, October, 2013. |
| Strange Victories: A Tribute to Barney Rosset | Evergreen Review, No. 130, 2012. |
| Lost in Appalachia (J.L. Anderson's Spring Night, Summer Night) | Sight and Sound, January 2012. |
| In Search of Sight-Specific Cinema | The Moving Image, Spring 2012. |
| Restoring The Times of Harvey Milk | The Times of Harvey Milk, DVD booklet essay, The Criterion Collection, 2011. |
| Whither Bruce Baillie? | Quick Billy, Bruce Baillie Vol. III DVD booklet essay, 2011. |
| The Gray Zone: A Restorationist's Travel Guide | The Moving Image, Vol. 9, No. 2, Fall 2009/10. |
| Mingus, Cassavetes, and the Birth of a Jazz Cinema | The Journal of Film Music, Vol. 2, No 2, Spring 2010. |
| Tillie's Punctured Legacy: the Restoration of Charlie Chaplin's First Feature | The Journal of Early Popular Visual Culture, Vol. 2, No. 7, July 2009. |
| The Films of Stephen Lighthill | Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories, University of California Press, 2007. |
| Technical Aesthetics in the Preservation of Film Art view text as slow-loading PDF |
Big as Life: An American History of 8mm Films, New York Museum of Modern Art/San Francisco Cinematheque, 1998. |
| A Brief Note on Dye Stability | Journal of Film Preservation, Vol. XXVI, No. 54, 1997. |
| Problems of Independent Film Preservation |
Journal of Film Preservation, Vol. XXV, No. 53, 1996. |
Interviews, Documentary Works, and Miscellaneous Writings
| Bela Tarr Oral History (video document: interviewer / researcher) | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oral History Project, 2023. |
| David Wilson, Museum of Jurassic Technology - Oral History (video document: interviewer / researcher) | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oral History Project, 2022. |
| Liv Ullmann Oral History (video document: research) | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oral History Project, 2022. |
| "but then you meet the poet" (video interview with actress Christine Berry; director / cinematographer / editor) | The Man Without A World; a film by Eleanor Antin. DVD featurette, Milestone, 2021/2023. |
| In the Middle of the Nights: From Arthouse to Grindhouse and Back Again (video essay on Spring Night, Summer Night) | Spring Night, Summer Night. DVD-BluRay featurette, Flicker Alley / Indicator Media, 2020. |
| Pat O'Neill Oral History (video document: interviewer / researcher) | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oral History Project, 2019. |
| Ken and Flo Jacobs Oral History (video document: research) | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oral History Project, 2018. |
| Billy and Charles. (video interview with Billy Woodberry. director / cinematographer / editor) | Bless Their Little Hearts, DVD featurette, Milestone, 2018. |
| Bruce Baillie Oral History (video document: interviewer / researcher / editor) | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oral History Project, 2018. |
| NOTFILM: Blu-ray and DVD two-disc set | Produced, directed and edited all supplemental features for DVD/Blu-ray release, Milestone, 2017. |
| Thom Andersen Oral History (video document: interviewer / researcher) | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oral History Project, 2017. |
| Robert Gitt Oral History (video document: interviewer / researcher) | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oral History Project, 2017. |
| Shirley Clarke's THE CONNECTION: A Conversation with Albert Brenner | The Connection: Project Shirley, Vol. 1. DVD featurette, Milestone, 2014. |
| The Link Revisited: A Conversation with Denardo Coleman | Ornette: Made in America. Skype interview originally presented at UCLA Film & Television Archive Festival of Preservation, Billy Wilder Theater, Los Angles, March 19, 2013. Published as DVD featurette, Milestone, 2014. |
| Shades of Gray: An Interview with Ross Lipman | Mike Dillon, Spectator 32.1, Spring 2012, pp. 45-54. |
| At the Dolores (Killer of Sheep cast reunion documentary) | Killer of Sheep: The Charles Burnett Collection. DVD featurette, Milestone, 2007. |
| Sid Laverents Oral History (video document: interviewer) view transcript as PDF | DVD directed and authored by Amy Sloper with Michelle Weis, Association of Moving Image Archivists Oral History Project, 2006. |
| The Restoration of John Cassavetes' Shadows (documentary: author / narrator) | John Cassavetes: Five Films (DVD set), The Criterion Collection, 2004. |
| A Short Survey of Experimenal Cinema Preservation | Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference, Montreal, 1999. |
| Artur Aristakisian: Exodus of Love (interview translation) view text as PDF |
(unpublished, from Internationales Forum des Jungen Films catalog, Berlin International Film Festival 1994, translation 1997) |