MoMA puts on its 7th annual restoration/preservation film festival, To Save and Project, exhibiting over 25 films. SMAC has here interviewed the Assistant Curator, Joshua Siegel, who describes in detail the festival’s program and history.

The festival showcases features length films by such prominent directors as Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang, Ingmar Bergman and Frank Capra, together with experimental projects unearthed from archives worldwide. Some highlights of the program include: Luchino Visconti’s Senso (1954), Michelangelo Antonioni’s  Le Amiche (1955),  Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922),  Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme’s Le joli mai (1963), Lotte Reiniger’s The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), and Loin de Vietnam (1967), a collaborative work by Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, etc.

Die Abenteur des Prinzen Achmed (The Adventures of Prince Achmed). 1926. Germany. Directed by Lotte Reiniger.