Background
Paolo Cherchi Usai was born on November 8, 1957, in Rossiglione, Italy. He is the son of Licinio and Anita Cherchi Usai.
Via Balbi, 5, 16126 Genova GE, Italy
In 1981 Paolo Cherchi Usai received his doctorate degree from the University of Genoa, Italy.
2007
New York City, New York, United States
Director Paolo Cherchi Usai and Tribeca Film Festival executive director Peter Scarlet attend the premiere of "Passio" at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival on April 27, 2007, in New York City. Photo by Steven Henry
2007
New York City, New York, United States
Director Paolo Cherchi Usai attends the premiere of "Passio" at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival on April 27, 2007, in New York City. Photo by Steven Henry
2012
Telluride, Colorado, United States
Film preservationist Paolo Cherchi Usai, actor Ben Affleck and film critic Leonard Maltin attend the Patron's Brunch at the 2012 Telluride Film Festival - Day 1 on August 31, 2012, in Telluride, Colorado. Photo by Vivien Killilea
2012
Telluride, Colorado, United States
Film preservationist Paolo Cherchi Usai and director Ken Burns attend the 2012 Telluride Film Festival - Day 3 on September 2, 2012, in Telluride, Colorado. Photo by Vivien Killilea
2012
Telluride, Colorado, United States
Film historian Serge Bromberg, film preservationist Paolo Cherchi Usai and co-director of the Telluride Film Festival Gary Meyer attend the 2012 Telluride Film Festival - Day 3 on September 2, 2012, in Telluride, Colorado. Photo by Vivien Killilea
Paolo Cherchi Usai, Alberto Barbera, and Peter Sellers. Photo by Arun Nevader
2007
New York City, New York, United States
Director Paolo Cherchi Usai and Tribeca Film Festival executive director Peter Scarlet attend the premiere of "Passio" at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival on April 27, 2007, in New York City. Photo by Steven Henry
2007
New York City, New York, United States
Director Paolo Cherchi Usai attends the premiere of "Passio" at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival on April 27, 2007, in New York City. Photo by Steven Henry
2012
Telluride, Colorado, United States
Film preservationist Paolo Cherchi Usai, actor Ben Affleck and film critic Leonard Maltin attend the Patron's Brunch at the 2012 Telluride Film Festival - Day 1 on August 31, 2012, in Telluride, Colorado. Photo by Vivien Killilea
2012
Telluride, Colorado, United States
Film preservationist Paolo Cherchi Usai and director Ken Burns attend the 2012 Telluride Film Festival - Day 3 on September 2, 2012, in Telluride, Colorado. Photo by Vivien Killilea
2012
Telluride, Colorado, United States
Film historian Serge Bromberg, film preservationist Paolo Cherchi Usai and co-director of the Telluride Film Festival Gary Meyer attend the 2012 Telluride Film Festival - Day 3 on September 2, 2012, in Telluride, Colorado. Photo by Vivien Killilea
Via Balbi, 5, 16126 Genova GE, Italy
In 1981 Paolo Cherchi Usai received his doctorate degree from the University of Genoa, Italy.
Paolo Cherchi Usai, Alberto Barbera, and Peter Sellers. Photo by Arun Nevader
https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Witnesses-Russian-Films-1908-1919/dp/0851702651
1989
https://www.amazon.com/Burning-Passions-Introduction-Silent-Cinema/dp/0851704085/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Burning+Passions%3A+An+Introduction+to+the+Study+of+Silent+Cinema&qid=1597314350&s=books&sr=1-1
1995
(This revised guide to silent film studies contains two ne...)
This revised guide to silent film studies contains two new chapters that present an analysis of colour technology and aesthetics and look at how silent films are saved, restored and made accessible via archives. Aided by new material, it is a survey of the first 30 years in the history of film.
https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Introduction-Distributed-British-Institute/dp/0851707467/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Silent+Cinema%3A+An+Introduction%2C&qid=1597314511&s=books&sr=1-2
2000
(Silent film director D.W. Griffith is the subject of this...)
Silent film director D.W. Griffith is the subject of this study. Only a small group of his more than 500 films are subject to analysis. The creative output of Griffiths from "Professional Jealousy" (1907) to "The Struggle" (1931) is explored.
https://www.amazon.com/Griffith-Project-Films-Produced-1907-1908/dp/0851707475/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=The+Griffith+Project&qid=1597314655&s=books&sr=1-5
2000
(Silent film director D.W. Griffith is the subject of this...)
Silent film director D.W. Griffith is the subject of this study. Only a small group of his more than 500 films are subject to analysis. The creative output of Griffiths from "Professional Jealousy" (1907) to "The Struggle" (1931) is explored.
https://www.amazon.com/Griffith-Project-Films-Produced-January/dp/0851707483/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=The+Griffith+Project&qid=1597314735&s=books&sr=1-6
2000
(Silent film director D.W. Griffith is the subject of this...)
Silent film director D.W. Griffith is the subject of this study. Only a small group of his more than 500 films are subject to analysis. The creative output of Griffiths from "Professional Jealousy" (1907) to "The Struggle" (1931) is explored.
https://www.amazon.com/Griffith-Project-Films-Produced-December/dp/0851707491/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=The+Griffith+Project&qid=1597314859&s=books&sr=1-4
2000
(The fourth volume of "The Griffith Project" looks at the ...)
The fourth volume of "The Griffith Project" looks at the films produced by D.W.Griffith at the Biograph Company in 1910. There were 86 films in all and they represent a period of creativity for the director, and they have been systematically analyzed in this volume.
https://www.amazon.com/Griffith-Project-Films-Produced-1910/dp/0851708056/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=The+Griffith+Project&qid=1597315106&s=books&sr=1-3
2001
(No other silent film director has been so extensively stu...)
No other silent film director has been so extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than 500 films has been the subject of a systematic analysis and the vast majority of his other works stills await proper examination. For the first time in film studies, the complete creative output of Griffith - from Professional Jealousy (1907) to The Struggle (1931) - will be explored in this multi-volume collection of contributions from an international team of leading scholars in the field. Created as a companion to the on-going retrospective held by the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, The Griffith Project is an indispensable guide to the work of a crucial figure in the arts of the nineteenth century. With contributions from Eileen Bowser, Tom Gunning, Kristin Thompson, Ben Brewster, Steven Higgins, Richard Koszarski, Scott Simmon, J.B. Kaufman, Russell Merritt, Patrick Loughney, Cooper Graham, Andre Gaudreault, Yuri Tsivian, Richard Allen.
https://www.amazon.com/Griffith-Project-Vol-Films-Produced/dp/0851709052/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Griffith+Project+Volume+V&qid=1597315330&s=books&sr=1-1
2001
(Provocative polemic on digital media; Features foreword b...)
Provocative polemic on digital media; Features foreword by Martin Scorsese, extract overleaf; It is estimated that about one and a half billion hours of moving images were produced in 1999, twice as many as a decade before. If that rate of growth continues, one hundred billion hours of moving images will be made in the year 2025. In 1895 there was just above forty minutes of moving images to be seen, and most of them are now preserved. Today, for every film made, thousands of them disappear forever without leaving a trace. Meanwhile, public and private institutions are struggling to save the film heritage with largely insufficient resources and ever increasing pressures from the commercial world. Are they wasting their time? Is the much feared and much touted Death of Cinema already occurring before our eyes? Is digital technology the solution to the problem, or just another illusion promoted by the industry? In a provocative essay designed as a collection of aphorisms and letters, the author brings an impassioned scrutiny to bear on these issues with a critique of film preservation, an indictiment of the crimes perpetuated in its name, and a proposal to give a new analytical framework to a major cultural phenomenon of our time.
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Cinema-History-Cultural-Digital/dp/0851708374/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Death+of+Cinema%3A+History%2C+Cultural+Memory%2C+and+the+Digital+Dark+Age&qid=1597316865&s=books&sr=1-1
2001
https://www.amazon.com/Griffith-Project-Films-Produced-1912/dp/0851709532/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Griffith+Project+Volume+VI&qid=1597315530&s=books&sr=1-1
2002
(No other silent film director has been as extensively stu...)
No other silent film director has been as extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than five hundred films has been the subject of a systematic analysis, and the vast majority of his other works still await proper examination. For the first time in film studies, the complete creative output of Griffith - from "Professional Jealousy "(1907) to "The" "Struggle "(1931) - will be explored in this multivolume collection of contributions from an international team of leading scholars in the field. Created as a companion to the ongoing retrospective held by the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, the Griffith Project is an indispensable guide to the work of a crucial figure in the arts of the nineteenth century. The latest volume assesses Griffith's work in 1914-15. It includes an extensive, multi-authored evaluation of "The Birth of" "a Nation."
https://www.amazon.com/Griffith-Project-Films-Produced-1914-1915/dp/1844570436/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Griffith+Project+Volume+VIII&qid=1597315853&s=books&sr=1-1
2004
(No other silent film director has been so extensively stu...)
No other silent film director has been so extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than 500 films has been the subject of a systematic analysis; the vast majority of his other works still await proper examination. For the first time in film studies, the complete creative output of Griffith - from Professional Jealousy (1907) to The Struggle (1931) - will be explored in this multi-volume collection of contributions from an international team of leading scholars in the field.
https://www.amazon.com/Griffith-Project-Films-Produced-1916-1918/dp/1844570975/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Griffith+Project+Volume+9&qid=1597316017&s=books&sr=1-1
2005
(No other silent film director has been so extensively stu...)
No other silent film director has been so extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than five hundred films had been the subject of a systematic analysis. Now, for the first time in film studies, the complete creative output of Griffith - from "Professional Jealousy "(1907) to "The Struggle" (1931) - is explored in this multi-volume collection of contributions from an international team of leading scholars in the field. Created as a companion to the ongoing retrospective held by the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, The Griffith Project is now an indispensable guide to his work. This is the final volume of the project.
https://www.amazon.com/Griffith-Project-10-Produced-1919-1946/dp/1844572196/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Griffith+Project+Volume+10&qid=1597316239&s=books&sr=1-1
2006
(No other silent film director has been so extensively stu...)
No other silent film director has been so extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than five hundred films has been the subject of a systematic analysis, and the vast majority of his other works still await proper examination. For the first time in film studies, the complete creative output of Griffith - from Professional Jealousy (1907) to The Struggle (1931) - will be explored in this multivolume collection of contributions from an international team of leading scholars in the field. Created as a companion to the ongoing retrospective held by the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, the Griffith Project is an indispensable guide to the work of a crucial figure in the arts of the nineteenth century.
https://www.amazon.com/Griffith-Project-Films-Produced-1913/dp/0851709915/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Griffith+Project+Volume+VII&qid=1597315677&s=books&sr=1-1
2008
(The Griffith Project is a major international research pr...)
The Griffith Project is a major international research project commissioned by the Pordenone Silent Film Festival at Sacile. In a series of twelve volumes leading international film scholars provide filmographic details, plot summaries, and analysis of all the films where D.W. Griffith was credited as director, writer, producer, and supervisor.
https://www.amazon.com/Griffith-Project-11-Selected-Corrections/dp/1844572323/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Griffith+Project+Volume+11&qid=1597316437&s=books&sr=1-1
2008
(This volume brings The Griffith Project to completion, as...)
This volume brings The Griffith Project to completion, as 2008 sees the last installment of the D.W. Griffith program at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival with the screening of his films produced between 1925 and 1931. Not surprisingly, twelve years of research on D.W. Griffith have unearthed an impressive wealth of knowledge but also an equally amazing array of new questions, certainly enough of them to fill several more volumes. Some of them (including the increasingly complex issue of D.W. Griffith's role as production supervisor) are only introduced or barely mentioned here, but we are confident that what we have called the 'Griffith Project' will continue – at the Giornate and elsewhere – with more research and newly found or preserved prints.
https://www.amazon.com/Griffith-Project-12-Essays-D-W-ebook/dp/B08DD63TXL/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=The+Griffith+Project+Volume+12&qid=1597316619&s=books&sr=1-2
2008
(Paolo Cherchi Usai provides a comprehensive introduction ...)
Paolo Cherchi Usai provides a comprehensive introduction to the study, research and preservation of silent cinema from its heyday in the early 20th century to its present day flourishing. He traces the history of the moving image in its formative years, from Edison's and Lumière's first experiments to the dawn of 'talkies'; provides a clear guide to the basics of silent film technology; introduces the technical and creative roles involved in its production, and presents silent cinema as a performance event, rather than a passive viewing experience. This new, greatly expanded edition takes the reader on a new journey, exploring silent cinema in the broader context of technology, culture, and society, from the invention of celluloid film and its related machinery to film studios, laboratories, theatres and audiences. Among the people involved in the creation of a new art form were filmmakers, actors and writers, but also engineers, entrepreneurs, and projectionists. Their collective efforts, and the struggle to preserve their creative work by archives and museums, are interwoven in a compelling story covering three centuries of media history, from the magic lantern to the reinvention of silent cinema in digital form. The new edition also includes comprehensive resource information for the study, research, preservation and exhibition of silent cinema.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PHDNCFL/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0
2019
Paolo Cherchi Usai was born on November 8, 1957, in Rossiglione, Italy. He is the son of Licinio and Anita Cherchi Usai.
In 1981 Paolo Cherchi Usai received his doctorate degree from the University of Genoa, Italy.
Paolo Cherchi Usai was an adjunct professor of English at the University of Rochester. From 1982 to 1988 he was the editor of the art section at Lavoro, Genoa, Italy. From 1986 to 1988 Cherchi Usai worked as a deputy curator of Cineteca del Friuli, Gemona, Italy. From 1989 to 1992 he served as an assistant curator at George Eastman House, Rochester, and was appointed a senior curator of the film in 1994. This title he held until 2004.
From 1993 to 1994 he was a head of preservation projects at the Royal Film Archive in Brussels, Belgium. In 1996 he was appointed a director of the Selznick School of Film Preservation in Rochester. He was a teacher at the University of Liege and the International School for Film Preservation, Bologna, Italy.
He was director of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia from 2004 to 2008, of the Haghefilm Foundation in Amsterdam (2008-2011), and is currently Senior Curator of the Moving Image Department at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York.
Cherchi Usai’s area of special interest is in early cinema, from the late nineteenth century to the early use of sound in films; in particular, he looks for correlations between film and other arts, including painting, architecture, literature, music, vaudeville, operetta, and caricature. He is the author of several books on early film.
In Silent Witnesses: Russian Films, 1908-1917 Cherchi-Usai presents a cross-section of Russian films, using quotations from the press of the time, as well as published and unpublished memoirs of those involved in creating the films. In addition to illustrations of stills, set designs, photographs, and posters, the volume includes biographies of seventeen important figures in Russian cinema, including directors, actors, and financial backers.
Burning Passions: An Introduction to the Study of Silent Cinema provides principles for studying silent films, including how to find, view, and understand these works of art. Cherchi Usai’s multivolume The Griffith Project is a compendium of information on the many films of D. W. Griffith, who lived from 1875 to 1948. In The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory, and the Digital Age, Cherchi Usai examines the past, present, and future of film, particularly the ephemeral nature of images preserved on film.
Paolo Cherchi Usai is a leading figure in film preservation. The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation was co-founded by him and Selznick in 1996. Cherchi Usai is a co-founder of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival. He was knighted in 2002 by the French Ministry of Culture as Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his achievements in the development and advocacy of film culture.
(Provocative polemic on digital media; Features foreword b...)
2001(This revised guide to silent film studies contains two ne...)
2000(Paolo Cherchi Usai provides a comprehensive introduction ...)
2019(The Griffith Project is a major international research pr...)
2008(This volume brings The Griffith Project to completion, as...)
2008(The fourth volume of "The Griffith Project" looks at the ...)
2001(No other silent film director has been so extensively stu...)
2001(No other silent film director has been so extensively stu...)
2008(No other silent film director has been as extensively stu...)
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2005(No other silent film director has been so extensively stu...)
2006(Silent film director D.W. Griffith is the subject of this...)
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2000(Silent film director D.W. Griffith is the subject of this...)
2000Paolo Cherchi Usai is a member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, the National Film Preservation Board, the Society of Cinema Studies, Amis de Valentin Bru.
