Mark Toscano in Person

Mark Toscano is a graduate of UC Berkeley and the George Eastman House's L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation, and has been a preservationist at the Academy Film Archive since 2003.

Located in the heart of Hollywood, the Academy Film Archive collects, preserves, and restores an extremely wide variety of motion pictures, including features (major studio and independent), animated shorts, documentaries, government films, silents, home movies, and experimental films. In this last category, the Academy has made substantial progress over the past decade. This program will look at experimental films preserved by the Academy within the past year or so, with a special focus on Los Angeles artists. Abstract works from the Whitney brothers and Pat O'Neill will commingle with more conceptual and dryly humorous pieces by Morgan Fisher and Roberta Friedman and Grahame Weinbren. The program will conclude with a new restoration of a film by Stan Brakhage, whose more than 350 works are currently being preserved by the Academy in a long-term project that promises to present its own brand of unique archival challenges.