Author Jan-Christopher Horak

Jan-Christopher Horak

Dr Jan-Christopher Horak is Director of the UCLA Film and Television Archive and founder of Making Images Move: Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. The author of several books, he is presently working on a book on designer and filmmaker Saul Bass.

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Film Curatorship: Archives, Museums, and the Digital Marketplace edited by Paolo Cherchi Usai, David Francis, Alexander Horwath and Michael Loebenstein

Jan-Christopher Horak

July 2010

It’s tough being an archivist these days. The digital revolution has shaken the profession to its very foundations. All those hallowed archival values like originality, uniqueness, provenance, and protection of...