Dr. Haden Guest

Biography

Haden Guest is the Director of the Harvard Film Archive and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art, Film, Visual Studies at Harvard University. He curates the Harvard Film Archive cinematheque and manages its motion picture and manuscript photographic collections. His work includes curating film programs for prestigious events such as the Viennale and Oberhausen Film Festival, as well as organizing the Cinema Dialogues series in collaboration with the Gulbenkian Foundation Museum in Lisbon. He oversees the Archive's preservation program, which focuses on independent avant-garde cinema, and has successfully preserved previously lost films, including Robert Flaherty's 'Night Storytelling,' rediscovered in 2013 at Harvard's Houghton Library. Guest holds a PhD in Film History from the University of California, Los Angeles, and teaches courses on film history and archival practices at Harvard. He is currently writing a critical history of Portuguese cinema post-1974 Carnation Revolution. In 2015, he was awarded the Medal of Cultural Merit by the Secretary of Culture of Portugal in recognition of his contributions to curating and researching Portuguese cinema. He also produced Soon-Mi Yoo's 'Songs North,' which won multiple prestigious awards, including the Golden Leopard at the 2014 Locarno Film Festival and the DocLisboa Prize for Feature Jury.

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