Dennis Nyback
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Dennis Nyback TBA 2006
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| Born |
July 30, 1953 Yacolt, Washington |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Film archivist, filmmaker, historian |
Dennis Nyback (born July 30, 1953) is an independent film archivist, found footage filmmaker, historian and writer.
He operates the Dennis Nyback Film Archive, which has over 13,000 short films, from 1895 onward, mostly in 16mm. It is located in Portland, Oregon. Working from his archive he has created over 300 found footage film programs that he has shown extensively in Europe, Great Britain, Scandinavia and the United States He has been a guest at film festivals in: Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Norway, South Korea, Switzerland, the United States, and other countries. He has owned and operated movie theaters in Seattle, New York and Portland, Oregon.
Every autumn since 2014 he has given a walking tour of the former Movie Palace and Nickelodeon sites in downtown Portland as part of the Portland Film Festival. The tours in 2016 were on September 3 and 4.
His new musical radio play Calvin Coolidge Goes Crazy was performed live on the stage of the Clinton St. Theater as a benefit for KBOO Radio on November 10, 2016, and live on the air from the KBOO studio on March, 23, 2017.
Dennis Nyback's most famous film program is "Bad Bugs Bunny: The Dark Side of Warner Bros. Animation" which he premiered at the Pike Street Cinema on January 15, 1993 for a three night run. He brought it back for a two-week run in March 1993. He took the program to Europe in 1995 where he showed it in 15 cities. It showed in England in 1996 with a London showing being the inspiration for the book Reading the Rabbit. It also showed in several cities in Australia in 1997 including a screening at the first Revelation Perth International Film Festival. He took it to Europe again in 2005 for screenings in 14 cities. In 2007, it was featured at the Hole in the Head Film Festival in San Francisco at the Roxy Theater where it sold out several shows. In 2009, it was featured at the KLIK Animation Festival, Amsterdam and sold out the Loft Cinema in Tucson, Arizona.
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