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Archives on Screen, Twin Cities @archivesonscreen.org · 1d

It would be ludicrous for you to miss the dizzyingly beautiful SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS, playing for one night only at the @trylon.org on Thursday, Oct. 16!

SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS Trailer | PÖFF 2018

YouTube video by PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

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Archives on Screen, Twin Cities @archivesonscreen.org · 5d

This October, Archives on Screen will highlight the work of Ukrainian-Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors will screen at @trylon.org, and The Color of Pomegranates will screen at Macalester College! 🇺🇦 🇦🇲 🎞
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Sergei Parajanov

Sergei Parajanov Double Feature In October 2025, Archives on Screen will highlight the work of Ukrainian-Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors will screen at Trylon Ci…

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Archives on Screen, Twin Cities @archivesonscreen.org · 9d

Happy Silent Movie Day!
Our next silent movie event will be 7th HEAVEN (1927), with live accompaniment by The Poor Nobodys! Sunday, November 9 at the Heights Theater! heightstheater.com

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Archives on Screen, Twin Cities @archivesonscreen.org · 14d

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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

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Archives on Screen, Twin Cities @archivesonscreen.org · 15d

Archives on Screen,Twin Cities visits Bologna each summer for Il Cinema Ritrovato and its hundreds of restored films. We're narrowing down the shortlist for our annual edition of the festival, Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour, returning for a 4th year to the Main Cinema, February 2026 in Minneapolis!

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Archives on Screen, Twin Cities @archivesonscreen.org · 15d

Film critic Anthony Lane celebrates Cineteca di Bologna, its restoration laboratory, L'Immagine Ritrovata, and its annual festival, Il Cinema Ritrovato, in the latest issue of The New Yorker! 🎉 🎞 🇮🇹

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The Exacting Magic of Film Restoration

Each year, at a festival in Bologna, movies that were once lost or damaged come back to life.

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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 22d

Lizzie Borden's (@lizziela.bsky.social) New York Feminisms trilogy is now on Blu-ray thanks to the @Criterion Collection. Here’s an excerpt from my conversation with Borden about her films in my book “Cinema Her Way"

Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/celebratin...

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Archives on Screen, Twin Cities @archivesonscreen.org · 25d

Next month! Sergei Parajanov's SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS, Oct. 16 at @trylon.org!
www.trylon.org/film/shadows...
And keep your eyes open/ears tuned in for more info about Parajanov's THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES, screening at Macalester College on Oct. 29!

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

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Archives on Screen, Twin Cities @archivesonscreen.org · Aug 18

Tickets now on sale for our next silent film event, co-presented with the @heightstheatermn!

7TH HEAVEN, with live accompaniment by The PoorNobodys!

Sunday, November 9, 7:30 PM, at the Heights Theater (3951 Central Ave NE, Columbia Heights, MN)

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Archives on Screen, Twin Cities @archivesonscreen.org · Aug 17

The program juxtaposes five films that about anonymity and labor, from silent films that show the invisible labor of housemaids and film editors to films that highlight the erased labor of decolonial struggle.

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Archives on Screen, Twin Cities @archivesonscreen.org · Aug 17

Film curators Michelle Baroody and Maggie Hennefeld join moderator Patrice Petro for a discussion of their program “Archives of Anonymous Labor: From Farce to Liberation.”

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Archives on Screen, Twin Cities @archivesonscreen.org · Aug 17

The full discussion with @archivesonscreen.org curators @hennefem.bsky.social and Michelle Baroody at the Carsey-Wolf Center at UC Santa Barbara in February is up now on YouTube!
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Archives of Anonymous Labor: From Farce to Liberation

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Archives on Screen, Twin Cities @archivesonscreen.org · Aug 14

In October 2025, Archives on Screen will highlight the work of Ukrainian-Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov. SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS will screen at Trylon Cinema and THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES will screen at Macalester College. Follow Archives on Screen on social media for more information.

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Archives on Screen, Twin Cities @archivesonscreen.org · Aug 14

Next up in our quarterly series at the @trylon.org...
Sergei Parajanov's SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS!
Thursday, October 16, 7 PM
(1965, DCP, 96m, Ukrainian with English subtitles) dir Sergei Parajanov.

Tickets now on sale at www.trylon.org/film/shadows...
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Archives on Screen, Twin Cities @archivesonscreen.org · Aug 11

Happy birthday to @archivesonscreen.org co-curator @hennefem.bsky.social! 🥳

Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · Aug 11

OMG, I've been searching for months for a bottle of this Dorothy Arzner "Straight" Rye Whiskey 🥃 And it just appeared as an (anonymous!) bday gift in the mail!!! Will my fairy whiskey mother please identify themself? It's an understatement to say that this is the best bday gift I've ever received.🎊🎞

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Archives on Screen, Twin Cities @archivesonscreen.org · Jul 27

And stick around for sellout wannabe MERRILY WE GO TO HELL at 4:30!
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Merrily We Go to Hell in 35mm

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Archives on Screen, Twin Cities @archivesonscreen.org · Jul 27

Who's the biggest sellout? Gwen Stefani? The Black Eyed Peas? NO! The biggest sellout is Dorothy Arzner's GET YOUR MAN! The Fri and Sat shows SOLD OUT! Tix still remain for Sunday's show, with live music by Katie Condon!
Help GET YOUR MAN sellout again!
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · Jul 25

Excited for tonight's SOLD OUT screening of Dorothy Arzner's GET YOUR MAN (1927) with live music by @katiecondon.bsky.social !!! 🎶🎞️ @archivesonscreen.org

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thanks @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social for the shout-out to our Dorothy Arzner double-feature, which starts TONIGHT at @trylon.org!!! Live music by @katiecondon.bsky.social, 35mm celluloid, brought to you by your friends at @archivesonscreen.org!!! 🎶🎞📽

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · Jul 24

Our Dorothy Arzner double-feature starts *tomorrow* at the @trylon.org!!! GET YOUR MAN (w/ live music 🎶) and then MERRILY WE GO TO HELL -- directed by everyone's favorite Pre-Code cynic! ❤️🎞️ @archivesonscreen.org
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Archives on Screen, Twin Cities @archivesonscreen.org · Jul 22

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Dorothy Arzner, Pre-Code Cynic – TRYLON

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Archives on Screen, Twin Cities @archivesonscreen.org · Jul 22

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Merrily We Go to Hell’s Dorothy Arzner, the Only Female Director in 1930s Hollywood – Perisphere

|Ed Dykhuizen| Female directors were commonplace, even at times dominant, in early film history. Alice Guy-Blaché directed more than 450 short films starting in 1896. Many scholars credit her with the...

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Archives on Screen, Twin Cities @archivesonscreen.org · Jul 21

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Dorothy Arzner, Pre-Code Cynic – TRYLON

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