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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 11d

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.

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 11d

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/

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · Aug 20

Friendly reminder, gentle colleagues. Propose !
Save the dates.

Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · Jun 21

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...

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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · 18d

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!

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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 20d

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…

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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 19d

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!

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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · Aug 20

Looking for a new beach read? We have you covered silentlondon.co.uk/2025/08/20/s...

Silent reading: Summer 2025 book reviews

Let Me Dream Again: Essays on the Moving Image, by Luke McKernan Sticking Place Books, September 2025, In case there could be anyone reading this site who doesn’t know, Luke McKernan is a media his…

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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Our Treasurer @tanyagoldman.bsky.social is talented!

Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thank you to @tanyagoldman.bsky.social for these absolutely beautiful zines!

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · Aug 27

Yuliya Solntseva in THE CIGARETTE GIRL OF MOSSELPROM (1924). She was married to Aleksandr Dovzhenko and co-directed with him, going solo after his death.

She won Best Director at Cannes for CHRONICLE OF FLAMING YEARS (1961), the first (and, for decades, only) woman to do so.

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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · Jul 10

On Friday, July 18, Dr. Veronica Johnson will give an online presentation on the history of the Film Company of Ireland, and its co-founder Nell O’Mara Sullivan. Hosted by San Francisco Film Preserve, this event is not to be missed!

Register here: filmpreserve.org/event/online...

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · Jun 27

Sold out screening of THE RED KIMONA (1925) at #IlCinemaRitrovato with brilliant intro by @shelleystamp.bsky.social & sizzling catalog notes by @katesac.bsky.social & live accomplishment by Meg Morley!!! 🎞️🎶🤩 festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezion...

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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · Jun 19

Some great silent screenings at @cineredis.bsky.social this year, chiefly two films starring the wonderful Anna May Wong!

Cinema Rediscovered @cineredis.bsky.social · Jun 18

🎬Great films back on the big screen at Cinema Rediscovered (Wed 23 - Sun 27 July, Bristol)

Thanks to Silk Factory for this amazing new trailer showcasing some of our 80+ screenings and events lineup.

Passes & tickets are available with a 20% discount when you book 4+ screenings - link in bio 🎟️

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Kate Saccone @katesac.bsky.social · Jun 19

Don't miss the BREAKING PLATES screening on Sunday afternoon at Il Cinema Ritrovato! It's sure to be a smash with @hennefem.bsky.social, @karenpearlman.bsky.social, @richardjamesallen.bsky.social, and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi on stage 😀

festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezion...

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · Jun 16

Read about how much fun we just had at the Women and Silent Screen conference in Brussels/Antwerp from the one and only @pamhutch.bsky.social Many thanks to the organizers and @wfhinetwork.bsky.social who created this vital space for feminist scholarship & mayhem!
silentlondon.co.uk/2025/06/15/c...

Catching trains, raising riots and trashing the kitchen: travels in feminist cinema

“Is this really what you want to learn from the past?” – Breaking Plates (Karen Pearlman, 2025) Let the train take the strain they say, and so I did, curating my own idiosyncratic, mostly silent, t…

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · Jun 12

My head is spinning after all the *brilliant* presentations and screenings today at Women & the Silent Screen!!! 🎞️📚❤️ @wfhinetwork.bsky.social @aurspiers.bsky.social @clarasilentfilms.bsky.social @rutuja.bsky.social

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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · Mar 8

#IWD2025

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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · Mar 6

Brilliant interview with @karenpearlman.bsky.social about her ecstatic new feminist archival doc, BREAKING PLATES, on the @nitrateville.bsky.social podcast!!! 🎞️🎶

nitrateville.com/viewtopic.ph...

BREAKING PLATES & SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY is coming to a rep cinema near you, watch out!!! 🍽️🧨

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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · Mar 6

*Breaking Plates is produced by @richardjamesallen.bsky.social for the @physicaltv.bsky.social Co.! For event updates check out our @wfpproject.bsky.social webpage: wfpp.columbia.edu/cinemas-firs...

Cinema’s First Nasty Women – 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

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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · Feb 8

Stella F. Simon was a widowed mother of 3 when she moved to NYC to study photography from 1923 to 1925. A year later, she went to Berlin to study filmmaking.
https://buff.ly/4jGUKyu

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Stella F. Simon – 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.

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · Feb 4

Brilliant line-up for this year's 2025 edition of HippFest -- Scotland's first & only silent film festival in the beautiful Hippodrome Cinema of Bo'Ness!!!

www.hippodromecinema.co.uk/hippfest/

*The full schedule is now live*--including many online screenings & talks! 🎞️🎶😍 #SilentFilm

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · Feb 3

"Breaking Plates is metalepsis unbound .... Breaking plates, smashing frames, bursting out of constraints"‼️

adrianmartinfilmcritic.com/reviews/b/br...

Thank you @adrianpmartin.bsky.social for this beautiful review of @karenpearlman.bsky.social's brilliant new film, BREAKING PLATES (2023)!! 🎞️🍽️🌪️

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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · Feb 3

Notifications regarding Women and the Silent Screen XII submissions will be sent out slightly later than planned. Please expect to hear back around mid-February.

The conference committee apologizes for any inconvenience that this delay may cause!

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · Jan 27

Congrats to @alixbeeston.bsky.social and @stefansolomon.bsky.social whose *phenomenal* collection INCOMPLETE won Best Edited Collection at this year’s @scmstudies.bsky.social Book Awards!! Proud to have it in my Feminist Media Histories series @ucpress.bsky.social
www.ucpress.edu/books/incomp...

Incomplete by Alix Beeston, Stefan Solomon - 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.

www.ucpress.edu

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · Jan 24

New Open Access book on Archives and Global Women’s Film Heritage, edited by Lizelle Bisschoff, Ana Grgić and Stefanie Van de Peer

Stretching the Archives: Toward a Global Women’s Film Heritage
www.archivebooks.org/stretching-t...

Stretching the Archives Toward a Global Women’s Film Heritage - Archive Books

— Stretching the Archives Toward a Global Women’s Film Heritage is the result of two years of networking, workshops, and conferences that aimed to bring together scholars, archivists, and filmmakers...

www.archivebooks.org

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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · Jan 23

Vote, vote!!

Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · Jan 23

As it stand, we sadly don't have enough votes in this year's poll. If we don't get a few more surveys completed, it wouldn't be fair to name any winners – so please vote! silentlondon.co.uk/2024/12/22/t...

The Silent London Poll of 2024: vote for your winners now

Season’s greetings Silent Londoners. It has been a whirlwind of a year. How much do you remember? Personally, I watched silent movies on three different continents this year, so I have some g…

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