Join us for a free 35mm screening of Sally Potter's Orlando, starring Tilda Swinton in the gender-bending title role. Adapted from a novel by Virginia Woolf, this two-time Oscar-nominated drama spans centuries, and takes its hero/heroine from the English countryside to Constantinople. Featuring...
On September 13, 2019, we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Clara Wieck Schumann (1819–1896), one of the most brilliant and influential musicians of the nineteenth century. Beginning as a dazzling child prodigy and ending as a black-clad “priestess” of high art, she was in the...
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive invites you to join us for a year-long celebration of women filmmakers, beginning this fall with four feature films in 35mm and an evening of short films by Yale women. These screenings are presented as part of Yale's 50WomenAtYale150 commemorative activities:...
The Gilmore Music Library is currently trialing a new database, Rock's Backpages - the world's biggest archive of music journalism and pop writing of the last 60 years.
Comprising of over 40,000 articles, the RBP library aggregates the work of over 720 of the finest writers across all popular-...
The Yale Film Study Center has received a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to support preservation of James Baldwin: From Another Place, a documentary by Yale alumnus Sedat Pakay MFA '68. The 12-minute short was shot in Istanbul in 1970 during a time when Baldwin was living in...
The Yale Film Study Center has completed preservation of The Beginnings of Bebop (1981), a film that documents a guided tour of significant locations in the history of bebop music, led by legendary trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. After completing work on a film with Gillespie about the songs and games...
As an architecture student at Yale in the late 1960s, Josh Morton lived in New Haven's Hill neighborhood, half a block from the local chapter headquarters of the Black Panther Party. Looking for a new way to support their cause, Morton volunteered to drive for the Panthers' "Breakfast for Children...
