Jan-Christopher Horak

Former Director of UCLA Film & Television Archive. Previously Director of Archives & Collections, Universal Studios, Director, Munich Filmmuseum, Munich, Germany, and Senior Curator, George Eastman Museum. Has held professorships in Rochester, Munich, Salzburg, and at UCLA. Adjunct University of Miami. Curated dozens of international exhibitions and film programs. He was founding Vice-President, President, Board of Directors, Association of Moving Image Archivists; Executive Committee of the Federation Internationale des Archivs du Film. Founding Editor and editorial board, The Moving Image. Editorial Board Journal of Film Preservation; National Film Preservation Board, 2010-2019. Public Film Funding Panel, Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film, 1994-1998.

Scholarly Work and Publications

Books include: Film and Photo in the 1920s (1979), Helmar Leski - Pioneer of Israeli Cinema (1983), Anti-Nazi-Films Made by German Jewish Refugees in Hollywood (1985), The Dream Merchants: Making and Selling Films in Hollywood's Golden Age (1989), Lovers of Cinema. The First American Film Avant-Garde 1919-1945 (1995), Making Images Move: Photographers and Avant-Garde Cinema (1997), Saul Bass. Anatomy of Film Design (2014), L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema (2015), and Hollywood Goes Latin. Spanish-Language Filmmaking in Los Angeles (1919). Over 300 essays and reviews in in English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Swedish, Japanese, and Hebrew publications. Bi-Weekly blog at archivalspaces.com