The Yale Film Archive is now one of 94 world institutions with the “legitimate and primary” responsibility to preserve an original moving image collection.
“The Waltz,” an animated short by artist Yulia Ruditskaya, 2022 Laurel Vlock Fellow at the Fortunoff Video Archive, is based on a a poem by the Yiddish poet A. Lutzky.
The National Film Preservation Foundation grant will help preserve Collins’s short film, The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy. The archive is also preserving the director’s only feature film, Losing Ground .
The Yale Film Archive has received a grant to preserve Losing Ground , the 1982 masterwork of the late Kathleen Collins, a pioneering Black writer and filmmaker whose work was largely unseen for decades after her death in 1988 at the age of 46.
To mark Native American Heritage Month, the Yale Film Archive is recommending six documentary films, available to faculty, students, and staff through the library’s streaming video services.
