Andrés Levinson

Historian graduated from University of Buenos Aires and Phd Candidate in History from the same University under the direction of Prof. David Oubiña. Currently in charge of the Research and Curatorship Area of the film Archive at Museo del Cine de Buenos Aires. Specialist in History of silent cinema, preservation and archiving of audiovisual media. Professor of Argentine History at Universidad de Buenos Aires and of Documentary Film History in the postgraduate area of

the National University of Tres de Febrero. He was professor of Film History at the Universidad del Cine (FUC) and New York University. He has curated film screenings at various festivals and exhibitions. He has participated in numerous congresses, published articles in specialized magazines and books. He is the author of Cinema in the Country of the Wind, Silent Films in South Patagonia. Responsible for the restoration of the Argentine classic, Prisioneros de la tierra (1939) with the support of The Film Foundation. He currently co-directs the Project for the Preservation of Argentine Antarctic Films.

• Rescuing Argentine Antarctic Cinema, AMIA Conference, 2021
• Preservation of Antarctica films, from Moneta to Gral. Leal, Jornadas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas Antárticas, 2021
• Rescate del cine Antártico Argentino, Orphans12 Film Symposium, New York, NY, 2020
• The Aryan, a film restoration, Orphans11 Film Symposium, New York, NY, 2018
• The film is dead, long live the film, CINEOP 12th Ouro Preto Cinema Show, Ouro Preto, Brazil, 2017
• Muñequita Porteña, rescue, presentation and projection, first sound Argentine film., BAFICI, 2017
• Latin American Coordinating Meeting of the Moving Image (CLAIM), Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2017
• State of Film Preservation in Argentina, Audiovisual Forum, 2016
• Organization of the First Forum on Audiovisual Preservation, Museo del Cine, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016
• Even after death, rescue, presentation, screening of the One Hundred Years Ago cycle, BAFICI, 2016
• Achtung Argentina! Rescue and presentation of Argentine films, Orphans 9 Film Symposium, New York, NY, 2016
• La seducción fatal (cinema section curatorship), La seducción fatal, 2014
• Amalia, Argentina's first feature film, 1914-2015, Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, Bafici, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2015
• Audiovisual Preservation Exchange (APEX) NYU, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2015
• Thinking Solutions for Latin American Archives, Association of Moving Image Archive (AMIA) Conference, Savannah, USA, 2014
• Rescue and presentation of lost Argentine films, Orphans 9 Film Symposium, New York, NY, 2014
• Intemperie in Chapicuy (color short film, 8mm), Mar del Plata International Film Festival, 2013
• Archives and Access: Institutional Experiences in Management, 2nd Meeting of Archives and Audiovisual Heritage, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013
• CINEPA Program, rescue and presentation of Argentine films from the production company CINEPA (curatorship), International Film Festival of Mar del Silver, 2013
• PROA, Buenos Aires in the cinema, PROA Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013
• Buenos Aires under construction, The cinema and the city, National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013
• Argentine experimental cinema program of the seventies, BAFICI, International Independent Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013
• Film archives in the digital age, BAFICI, International Independent Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013
• Sarmiento and cinema, UNASUR International Festival, San Juan, 2012
• Scientific and Educational Cinema in Argentina, Colloquium on Educational and Scientific Cinema, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2012
• Tierra del Fuego in the cinema, a relationship of one hundred years, Fueguino Art Month, Ushuaia, 2012
• Argentine Valle Cinematography Series; comments on silent cinema in Patagonia, XIII Inter-School Conference on History Departments, Catamarca, Argentina, 2011
• Modern Impressions: Cinema in Buenos Aires, 1896-1910, XII Inter-School Conference on History Departments, Bariloche, Argentina, 2009
• Questions to a postal city: the figures of Toon Maes and Erich Priebke in The Painter of Argentine Switzerland (1991) by Esteban Buch, and in Pact of Silence (2006) by Carlos Echeverría, VIII Andean Conference on Latin American Literature, Santiago de Chile, 2008
• Juan, as if nothing had happened, twenty years later, Second Conference on History of Patagonia, Río Negro, Argentina, 2006
• Associated Argentine Artists and The Gaucha War: a particular representation of Argentine history through an industrial and artistic cinema, The industrial Adventure in Argentina Cinema, San Juan de Puerto Rico, 2006
• The gaucho war as a historical source: from Lugones to Associated Argentine Artists a starting point, X Inter-School Conference on History Departments, Rosario, Argentina, 2005

• Project for the Preservation of Argentine Antarctic Cinema, Journal of Film Preservation, Brussels, Belgium, 2021
• La imagen presente, Nitrato Argentino, a history of early cinema, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2020
• O filme está morto, viva
• Filme, Memórias, Arquivo Em Cartaz, Arquivo International Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2017
• A Cinematheque in the digital era, La imagen Argentina II, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2017
• Amalia, Argentina's first feature film: rescue, preservation and restoration, Journal of Film Preservation, Brussels, Belgium, 2016
• Between Flaherty and Moneta: las Islas Orcadas, Educational cinema in Spain, Argentina and Uruguay, Madrid, Spain, 2015
• Prologue, presentation and comments, Amalia, one hundred years ago, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2015
• Erotic cinema and pornographic in Argentina, The fatal seduction, erotic imaginaries of the 19th century, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2015
• Silent Cinema in Argentina, European and Creole Pioneers, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 34, Pordenone, Italy, 2015
• Cinema in the country of the wind Antarctica and Patagonia in the Argentine cinema of the early times, Rio Negro Editorial Fund, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2012
• The Building of a Nation: La Guerra Gaucha a historic melodrama, Film and Melodrama in Latin America, 2009
• Cinematic newsreels in the silent period, Mosaico Criollo, first anthology of Argentine silent cinema, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2009
• In the Hell of the Chaco, Mosaico Criollo, first anthology of silent Argentine cinema, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2009
• Introduction to the New Argentine Cinema, Project Tramas, education, image, citizenship, 2007
• The chimera of heroes, Proyecto Tramas, education, image, citizenship, 2007
• About Cándido López, the battlefields, Entrepasados, history magazine, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2006
• Young old men and the new Argentine cinema, Cuadernos de Cine, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2005