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...

“Me, I Just Film My Life”: An Interview with Jonas Mekas

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

The Festival That Almost Wasn’t: The 21st Busan International Film Festival

The 34th Cinema Ritrovato Has Full Resuscitation under COVID

Women at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival

Lest We Forget: the 31st FID Marseille

A Vitalising Cinema in an Agitated Age: The 58th New York Film Festival

Locarno 2020: The Open Doors Experience

Your Daughters Come Back to You: The 28th Pan African Film and Arts Festival

Theorising National Cinema edited by Valentina Vitali and Paul Willemen

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

War, Community, and the Cinema: Front Lines of Community: Hollywood Between War and Democracy by Hermann Kappelhof and Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris

The Perfect Conditional: Philippe Garrel by Michael Leonard

Creating the Appearance of Being: The Art of American Screen Acting 1960 to Today, by Dan Callahan

The Restless Spectator: Anxious Cinephilia: Pleasure and Peril at the Movies, by Sarah Keller

Engaged Vision: Critical Mass: Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave, by Steven Ungar

A Communications Primer and View from the People Wall

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)

Jones, Chuck

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