In December 2017, IUB Libraries and the BFC/A launched the Josef Gugler African and Middle Eastern Film Collection through Indiana University’s Image Collections Online (ICO) (see story on BFC/A blog). Since then, I worked with the BFC/A’s hourly staff to scan an additional 1,315 posters, photographs, lobby cards, and handbills from the collection and added …
Working at Indiana University’s Black Film Center/Archive (BFC/A) has been an exciting and interesting experience for me. Although I definitely enjoy film, including work by directors who fall outside the Hollywood mainstream (Dario Argento, Akira Kurosawa, and Jan Švankmajer, to name a few), I wouldn’t consider myself to be a film buff let alone a …