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Kate Saccone

@katesac.bsky.social
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Silent cinema, curating, and feminist practice and theory at the University of Amsterdam; project manager/editor, @WFPProject.

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HippFest @hippfest.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Happy Saturday #SilentFilm world! 🌇 It's only a NEW PODCAST ALERT! Our newest release features the very wonderful @katesac.bsky.social - film curator, scholar, and editor based in Amsterdam. 🎧️ Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/4Hbk... 🖥️ Read blog/transcript: hippfest.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/h...
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HippCast Episode 37
“One of these days men are going to get over the fool idea that women have no brains…and quit getting insulted at the thought that a skirt-wearer can do their work quite as well as they can. And I …
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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
WFHI is pleased to announce the inaugural Women and Film History International Student Project Award. Sponsored by @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social. Visit our website for more info: www.wfhi.org/student-proj... Apply by September 15, 2026
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Kate Saccone @katesac.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Please share widely!!
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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
"If we’re only considering the already anointed and only looking at features, then we’re missing what the full range of cinema was at the time" Jay Weissberg on programming the Pordenone Silent Film Festival www.sensesofcinema.com/2026/state-o...
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Where Past and Present collide: Pordenone’s Silent Film Festival – Senses of Cinema
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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Happy International Women's Day! WFHI is committed to fostering and supporting scholarly, archival, and creative work on women's global film history. 👋 Not yet a member of WFHI? Join today: www.wfhi.org/join 🙏 If you became a member since Spring 2025, you're all set. Thank you for your support!
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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
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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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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Kate Saccone @katesac.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
FUEL THE ADVOCACY THAT SAFEGUARDS CINEMA’S PAST 🎞️ Advocacy is a core part of San Francisco Film Preserve’s mission. Your support helps elevate the essential work of moving image preservation—here in the Bay Area and across the global film heritage community. #FilmSky 1/6
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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 🎞️🎊 !! online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/7...
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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.
Image of devil from Hell-Bound Train (James & Eloyce Gist, 1930) Image of drinking youth from Hell-Bound Train (James & Eloyce Gist, 1930) Image of devil from Hell-Bound Train (James & Eloyce Gist, 1930) Image of young robber in a mask and holding a pistol from Hell-Bound Train (James & Eloyce Gist, 1930)
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Feminist Media Histories @femmediahist.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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....
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Sarah-Mai Dang @sarahmaidang.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
🎬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
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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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Kate Saccone @katesac.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Excited to be in Bruges, and at this festival, this weekend!
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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🎥✨ Step into the world of early cinema innovation! Join us Friday, September 19, for the next edition of ONLINE WITH SFFP: Preserving Douglass Crockwell’s Mutoscopes. 1/5
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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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 · 27/06/2025
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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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Come break plates with us today at #IlCinemaRitrovato!!! 4:30pm in DAMSLab 🎊😍🎞️ @karenpearlman.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social @richardjamesallen.bsky.social @katesac.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social app.ilcinemaritrovato.it/show?id=82688
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physicaltv.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
@physicaltv.bsky.social @nastysilents.bsky.social's BREAKING PLATES screening at Il Cinema Ritrovato this Sun, June 22, 4.30pm. Tix: www.google.com/url?q=https:... Join @karenpearlman.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social Elif Kaynakci, Kate Saccone & @richardjamesallen.bsky.social for the panel/Q&A!
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
#bornonthisday: actress, director, producer, and screenwriter Helen Holmes!
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Helen Holmes – 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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Kate Saccone @katesac.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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 · 27/01/2025
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...
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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.
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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
New in #openaccess! STRETCHING THE ARCHIVES TOWARD A GLOBAL FILM WOMEN’S FILM HERITAGE. Eds. Lizelle Bisschoff, Ana Grgić, Stefanie Van de Peer. Book has particular emphasis on feminist cultural memory and film heritage in the Global South. www.archivebooks.org/stretching-t...
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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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...
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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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Kate Saccone @katesac.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Excited to be heading to the Netherlands Silent Film Festival tomorrow! 🎞️ 🎶 On Saturday, Anke Brouwers and I will present our program "Nice Work (if You Can Get It)," which is dedicated to women at work and working women of various kinds!
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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
TO SAVE AND PROJECT, MoMA's annual festival of preserved films, starts tonight and continues through Jan. 30. www.moma.org/calendar/fil...
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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Let's do a silent movie alphabet! A is for The Adventures of Prince Achmed
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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
It's the most wonderful time of the year! Time to vote in the Silent London Poll of 2024! silentlondon.co.uk/2024/12/22/t...
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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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Nannina Gilder @nannina.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
As we approach the holiday I want to share some Christmas shorts directed by women. Czech animator Hermina Tyrlova, created wonderful worlds of wool & string. A stop motion innovator, her career spanned almost 60 years, 1927-86. Here is her delightful SNOWMAN (1966) www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtNo...
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Snehulak (1966)
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Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The schedule is up for MoMA's annual festival of film preservation, TO SAVE AND PROJECT. Organized by yours truly this year, with the invaluable help of Cindi Rowell. Starts Jan. 9 with our upgraded restoration of Frank Borzage's silent masterpiece, 7th HEAVEN. www.moma.org/calendar/fil...
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To Save and Project: The 21st MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation | MoMA
Film series. Jan 9–30, 2025. Our annual To Save and Project festival returns in 2025 with a rich selection of newly restored treasures from archives around the world. This year’s program spans nearly ...
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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
You still have this weekend to submit to Women and the Silent Screen XII, "Form and Feeling in Silent Cinema."
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2025 BRUSSELS & ANTWERP, BELGIUM — Women and Film History International
Registration available for the Women and the Silent Screen XI Conference for our members. Click Here to register and learn more
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The surviving fragment of VICENTA (Musidora, 1919) is now streaming online on HENRI! www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/1...
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Vicenta (Musidora, 1919) à voir en ligne sur HENRI, la plateforme des collections films de la Cinémathèque française
Le prince Romano séduit Vicenta, serveuse dans une auberge minable. Elle s'échappe pour le rejoindre à Paris.
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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Save the dates for Hippodrome Silent Film Festival 19-23 2025. Festival passes for the 15th edition on sale now www.hippodromecinema.co.uk/hippfest/
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HippFest
HippFest is Scotland’s first and only festival of silent film with live music, centred in and inspired by Scotland’s first and oldest cinema; featuring exceptional screenings, commissions, workshops, ...
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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Just finished reading a draft of @aurspiers.bsky.social book manuscript, Archiving the Past: Women’s Film History in France, which will be published in my Feminist Media Histories book series @ucpress.bsky.social. Can’t wait for you all to read it!
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Ukrainian French artist Sonia Delaunay's 1920s - 1930s clothing designs
Artwork of twelve painted figures presented in a four by four square formation, the stylised figures are shown in different colourful costume or dress designs with angular, square, round, or zig zag motifs, all on a cream background
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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The new issue of JOURNAL OF e-MEDIA STUDIES has dropped. Its Early Cinema Compendium includes 17 essays and a companion set of 15 newly-created databases of primary sources related to the first four decades of motion-picture film. pub.dartmouth.edu/journal-of-e...
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Kate Saccone @katesac.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We've extended the deadline for Women and the Silent Screen proposals to Monday, December 9! For more info: www.wfhi.org/2025-brussel...
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Kate Saccone @katesac.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
In one hour you can join Amy Ruhl, Mark Cooper, Lorena Ruiz Trejo, María Fernanda García Solar, and Sabine Groenewegen online for Entr’acte Day 2! www.wfhi.org/entracte-2024
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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Join Esha Niyogi De, Susan Potter, Diana W. Anselmo, Luciana Corrêa de Araújo, S. Louisa Wei, and Terri Francis for Entr'acte Day 1 later today! It's not too late to register!
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2024 ENTR'ACTE — Women and Film History International
Registration available for the Women and the Silent Screen XI Conference for our members. Click Here to register and learn more
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Kate Saccone @katesac.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Registration is still open for @wfhinetwork.bsky.social's Entr'acte 2024 online event! www.wfhi.org/entracte-2024
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Kate Saccone @katesac.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
www.wfhi.org/entracte-2024 Registration is now open for Entr’acte 2024: Creative Historiographies, an online symposium sponsored by @wfhinetwork.bsky.social Organized by Drake Stutesman, Kiki Loveday & @katesac.bsky.social Nov 22 & 23
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2024 ENTR'ACTE — Women and Film History International
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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Proposals for Women and the Silent Screen XII are due December 2, 2024! wfhi.org/2025-brussel...
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Kate Saccone @katesac.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
"After Alice, Beyond Lois: Mining the Archive with the Women Film Pioneers Project," MoMA, through Nov 10! www.moma.org/calendar/fil...
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After Alice, Beyond Lois: Mining the Archive with the Women Film Pioneers Project | MoMA
Film series. Through Nov 10. To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Columbia University Libraries’ Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP), a digital publication and film archival resource, MoMA present...
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