25 years around films in Yanesen: Noriko Yamasaki interview
2008/6/19 Thursday | filmpres | comments closedYanesen Kobo is the publisher of a local cultural magazine “Yanaka, Nezu, Sendagi (Yanesen)”, which was started in 1984 and has been saving and fostering a wide variety of local culture in downtown Tokyo including “motion picture films”. If you hear the sound of a film projector’s motor running as you walk through the small alleys in the Yanesen area, it might be one of the editors of Yanesen magazine, Noriko Yamasaki, projecting films. This time we asked her especially about film related topics. (more…)
[MoMA] Film Archiving as a Profession: An Interview with Eileen Bowser
2006/9/10 Sunday | filmpres | add a commentOral History Project; interview with Eileen Bowser, 2000.
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Choichi Imada, film technician
2003/11/4 Tuesday | filmpres | comments closedAlthough I don’t know if he knows the archivists’ slogan “Nitrate Won’t Wait”, Choichi Imada says, “Film-san is not kind enough to wait for us”. (more…)
Interview with a film curator, Hidenori Okada “Archivist as a Profession”
2002/9/4 Wednesday | filmpres | comments closed
National Film Center in Tokyo is the only archive which joined FIAF (=La Federation Internationale des Archives du Film) from Japan (*Fukuoka Film Archive joined in 2004), and NFC is internationally not that famous but there must be so many film fans in the Tokyo area who often visit its theater, where you can see rare films at a reasonable admission price. The tasks of a film archive are, however, not only screenings/exhibitions but also various others like collecting, restoring, and preserving films. We asked the curator of NFC, Hidenori Okada, about being an archivist and about film preservation work. (more…)