Danish Film Institute curator Thomas Christensen honored at 2025 San Francisco Silent Film Festival

THOMAS CHRISTENSEN, SPEAKING AT THE 2024 SAN FRANCISCO SILENT FILM FESTIVAL. SOURCE: SFSFF.

On November 15th, Thomas Christensen was honored at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival for his tireless support of silent film preservation and exhibition thanks to his work as lead curator at the Danish Film Institute. Since its founding in 1972, the DFI has been devoted to preserving Danish film heritage, including masterpieces from the silent era. As lead curator, Christensen has been an integral part of the DFI's initiative to digitize their collection and make it accessible. To this end, the Danish Film Institute launched the series Danish Silent Classics, which consists of DVD releases of both individual silent films and anthologies. Many of these discs contain bonus features as well as filmmaker biographies and filmographies.

GME is pleased to distribute a number of these publications to academic institutions in North America. Most significantly, GME distributes five rare silent films by internationally renowned auteur Carl Th. Dreyer, as well as films directed by Benjamin Christensen, Alfred Lind, August Blom, Holger-Madsen, A.W. Sandberg, and Valdemar Psilander. Additionally, GME distributes a collection of four Danish films starring Asta Nielsen. (GME also distributes a collection of four German films starring Nielsen, published by Edition Filmmuseum). Furthermore, GME distributes the DVD collection The First Film Archive, produced on the occasion of the DFI’s 60th anniversary, which consists of a total of 70 films showing Danish events and people during the period 1899—1913.

For a complete list of the titles preserved by the Danish Film Institute that GME distributes, click here. To place an order for one or more of these titles, please contact sales@gartenbergmedia.com.