Ellen Harrington

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Ellen Harrington (born October 30, 1963 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American curator and film scholar. Since January 2018 she has been the director of the DFF, the German Film Institute & German Film Museum in Frankfurt am Main.

Life

Growing up in Boston, MA, Ellen Harrington attended Phillips Academy High School in Andover , MA. She studied Comparative Literature and Art History at History Dartmouth College in Hanover , NH until 1986, before completing her Masters degree from New York University with a Masters in Comparative Literature and Film Studies. She is fluent in English, Spanish and Italian.

Create

She began her career in 1988 as program assistant for the New York Shakespeare Festival at the Public Theater under the direction of Joe Papp. From 1989 to 1991 she was responsible for Warner Bros. and Punch Productions, mainly for the film productions of the actor Dustin Hoffman . When he moved from New York to Los Angeles in 1992, Harrington started working as a story analyst for the CAA Creative Artists Agency, editing scripts. In 1993 she began her twenty year career at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, CA. Harrington initially worked as a film events and exhibitions coordinator until she curated film exhibitions and screenings from 2001 to 2005. In 2005 she was appointed director of exhibitions and film events. In 2006 she also became founding director of the International Outreach Program. In 2013 she moved to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, CA, as director, where she was responsible for its exhibitions and collections. From 2014 to 2017, Harrington co-curated an exhibition project with the Getty Foundation. Between 2015 and 2017 she was the curator responsible for the structure and conception of the museum collection. Also in 2017 Harrington was a juror at the Short Films Competition at the COLCOA French Film Festival. Since January 2018 she has been the director of the DFF Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum eV ( German Film Museum ) and thus the successor to Claudia Dillmann . In 2019 she worked as a guest curator for the exhibition "MOVING / IMAGE: AN EXPLORATION OF FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHY" at DZ Bank . With a selection of around 180 works by around 40 international artists, the show referred to the common aesthetic manifestations of film and photography, as well as their shared narrative potential.

Awards

Honored as curator of the exhibition "From Latin America to Hollywood: Latino Film Culture in Los Angeles, 1967-2017" by the Getty Foundation.

Publications

  • Fellini. Mezzo secolo di dolce vita. Cineteca, Bologna 2009., ISBN 978-8895862286 ., “LA DOLCE VITA in America: Sin, Sensationalism and the Oscars,” essay by Ellen M. Harrington
  • 50 Designers / 50 Costumes: Concept to Character University of California Press, 2005., ISBN 978-0942102468 ., Editor Ellen Harrington

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SURNAME Harrington, Ellen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harrington, Ellen M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film scholar, director of the DFF
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts , USA