BORDER LINE
EUROPEAN CINEMA
1959
Generously Sponsored By
The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; the European Studies Council at the MacMillan Center; Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale; Department of French; Department of the History of Art; Program in Film & Media Studies; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; the Yale Center for British Art; and the Yale Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow
Acknowledgements The 14th European Film Conference was made possible by the hard work of many people. We would like to thank the members of the faculty committee from Film & Media Studies who selected the films to be screened this weekend: Professors Katerina Clark, Dudley Andrew, John MacKay, Charlie Musser, and Katie Trumpener. Foremost, our deep gratitude to Leana Hirschfeld-Kroen, Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies, for conceptualizing and organizing the conference, and finely curating the films and program notes. Christina Andriotis and Marianne Lyden, the managing staff of the European Studies Council, have been instrumental in planning and navigating the logistics of the conference. We are grateful for Tony Sudol's expertise as a projectionist and substantial help with print traffic. Lorenz Hegel, Ph.D. student in German and Film and Media Studies, provided English subtitles for the North American premier of They Called Him Amigo. Krystyna Illakowicz and Annette Insdorf helped us find a copy of The Noose. Kirsty Dootson and Mal Ahern, former graduate curators of this conference, offered invaluable advice over the past three months. Jenny Tang, Ph.D. candidate in Film and Media Studies and History of Art, designed our beautiful publicity materials. For invaluable assistance to make this conference a smoothly operating success, the European Studies Council student assistants: Weronika Betta, Mariia Muzdybaeva, Jeffrey Michels, Irina Bakhareva, Michelle Printsev and Sarah Holzworth. Multiple FIAF archives loaned 35mm prints to us to be screened this weekend, including the Yale Film Archive, Harvard Film Archive, Instituto de la CinematografĂa y de las Artes Audiovisuales, and Gosmofilmofond. Finally, many thanks to all introducers and panelists who turn this screening series into an ongoing discussion.