Pacific Film Archive
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The Pacific Film Archive (PFA) is the theater and film archives of the Berkeley Art Museum and University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California. The theater regularly screens both classic and experimental films and hosts visiting artists and filmmakers. The PFA archives collects and stores books, articles, films, and videos.
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[edit] History
Films screening by PFA began on the UC Berkeley campus in 1966. In 1970, program screening to the Modernist building on the south side of the UC Berkeley. The Archive was conceived as an American Cinémathèque Française, to increase film awareness and preserve cinema in addition to exhibiting films.[citation needed]
[edit] Collections
PFA's collection includes over 10,000 films and videos including the largest group of Japanese films outside Japan.[citation needed] Other notable holdings include impressive holdings of Soviet silents, West Coast avant-garde cinema, seminal video art, rare animation, Eastern European and Central Asian productions, and international classics. American experimental pioneers such as Bruce Conner and Ant Farm share the shelves of PFA's storage vault with international past masters Sergei Eisenstein and Kenji Mizoguchi.
[edit] Exhibitions
With daily screenings, the archive screens over 600 programs each year.[citation needed] Programs include rare prints, works by prominent directors, accompanied silent films , retrospectives, and current expiremental work. Filmmakers, authors, critics, and scholars are often involved in screenings and audience discussions.
[edit] Library
The PFA Library, in addition to the film collection, contains numerous books, periodicals, posters and photographs. Many of the libraries files are available online through an online database called CineFiles.
