“The Archive Project: Imagine Our Future” presents Mark Toscano

Event Date: Tuesday, October 20 - 6:00 pm

Mark Toscano is a filmmaker, curator, and film preservationist based in Los Angeles. Since 2003, he has worked at the Academy Film Archive, where he specializes in the curation, conservation, and preservation of artists’ films. He works with the collections of over 150 filmmakers, and has overseen the conservation and preservation of hundreds of films, including work by Stan Brakhage, Barbara Hammer, Chick Strand, Tacita Dean, Penelope Spheeris, Betye Saar, the Whitney brothers, Gus Van Sant, Pat O’Neill, Suzan Pitt, and many others. He has curated and presented programs at numerous venues, including MoMA, Arsenal, EYE Filmmuseum, Centre Pompidou, and festivals in Rotterdam, London, Zagreb, Bangalore, Seoul, and elsewhere. He is a programmer with Los Angeles Filmforum, and has lectured at various universities on experimental film and archiving, as well as teaching in the Experimental Animation department at CalArts.

This event is organized in dialogue with the School of Cinema's ongoing series on "Race, Resistance and Rebellion." Funding for this event is provided by a grant from the CSU Entertainment Alliance.