Author Amalia Córdova

Amalia Córdova

Amalia Córdova is a digital curator and the research and education director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. She is co-director of the new Festival de Cine de la Lengua Materna. She acted as a specialist in Latin America for the National Museum of the American Indian’s Film and Video Center in New York. She also has given lectures on indigenous cinema at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and published multiple essays and reviews. She is currently preparing a book about circulation and the film archives of Abya Yala.

Healing through curation: a conversation between three indigenous image curators in the Abya Yala movement

Amalia Córdova, David Hernández Palmar, Francisco Huichaqueo and Mauricio Rivera

December 2018

Latin American Cinema Today: An Unsolved Paradox

Spanish version / Versión en Español. Icónica. A conversation between Amalia Córdova (writing from Piscataway territory), David Hernández Palmar (Wayuu territory) and Francisco Huichaqueo (Wallmapu territory...

Cinema and the Classroom: Education in the Work of Eric Rohmer

Criminals Against Decoration: Modernism as a Heist

The New-Ark: trying to disavow anti-blackness

Claustrophobia and Intimacy in Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth and Her Smell

What’s in a Cone? Barbara Loden’s Wanda Between Weakness and Resilience

Come and See The Painted Bird: A Filmmaker’s Plea

Thresholds of Work and Non-Work in Tulapop Saenjaroen’s People on Sunday

Sixteen Flashbacks – The 16^th Singapore International Film Festival

Dreaming of the Mountains: The 9th Dharamshala International Film Festival

Ghost Cities: The 58th Viennale

Queer and Australian Features at the 2020 Adelaide Film Festival

Korean Cinema’s Self-Portrait: The 25th Busan International Film Festival

Live Through This: The 2020 Adelaide Film Festival

“Sense of Place”: The 33rd Tokyo International Film Festival

The Railroad Man: Hollywood’s First Australian. The Adventurous Life of J.P. McGowan by John J. McGowan

Revising a Concept: Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia, by Jonathan Walley

When Everything Seemed Possible: London’s Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde by David Curtis

“Memories Are Made of This”: Juliane Lorenz and Lothar Schirmer’s R.W. Fassbinder: Film Stills, 1966-1982

Beneath the Tuxedo Elegance: Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend, by Mark Glancy

Anarchist Cinema: A Dream of Resistance: The Cinema of Kobayashi Masaki by Stephen Prince

Trade Follows the Film: Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System by Lee Grieveson

Funeral for a Memory: Patricio Guzmán’s Salvador Allende

Stairways to Paradise: Youssef Chahine and Alexandria…Why?

At Home Among Strangers (Свой среди чужих, чужой среди своих, Nikita Mikhalkov, 1974)

German Yearnings, East and West: The Sons of Great Bear (Josef Mach, 1966)

Waiting for Rain: Oppression and Resistance in Youssef Chahine’s The Land (1970)

Of East and West and High and Low: Lemonade Joe (1964)

A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (Chelovek s bulvara Kaputsinov, Alla Surikova, 1987)

Ray, Satyajit

Scott, Tony

Menzel, Jiří

Wise, Robert

Fernández, Emilio “Indio”

Fei Mu

Huston, John

Healing through curation: a conversation between three indigenous image curators in the Abya Yala movement