Dan Streible

Silent movies are still the earliest cinematic record of our time—even if they have long been surpassed by more exciting forms of theater. Unfortunately, the Library of Congress has r...

Dan Streible, Devin Orgeron, and Marsha Orgeron discuss how educational films, the influential form of filmmaking seen by millions of people, reveal 20th century preoccupations and values. Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States is a collection of essays that address the role of educational films inside and outside the classroom.

Dan Streible shared his picks with us after a recent appearance on The Leonard Lopate Show.

Director of the Orphan Film Symposium, Dan Streible, associate professor of cinema studies at NYU, and associate director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program, discusses the 2010 Orphan Film Symposium, the seventh biennial gathering of archivists, scholars, preservationists, curators, collectors, and media artists devoted to saving, ...

Every other year, film archivists from around the world gather to present "orphan films" - unusual movies of unknown origins. Dan Streible is founder and curator of the Orphan Film Symposium, showing at the IFC Center as part of the "Stranger Than Fiction" series. The full Orphan Film Symposium will ...