Film curator, critic and writer PAOLO CHERCHI USAI is the Director of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, and co-founder of both the Pordenone Silent Film Festival and of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. He is the author of numerous books and essays on film history, digital culture and moving image preservation. Among his published works are Before Caligari (co-editor, 1990), Burning Passions: An Introduction to the Study of Silent Cinema (revised edition, 2000), The Death of Cinema (2001), and D.W. Griffith (forthcoming). Among the musicians he has worked with for silent film music productions are John Cale for The Unknown (Tod Browning, 1927), Wim Mertens for La Femme de nulle part (Louis Delluc, 1921), and the Alloy Orchestra for Lonesome (Paul Fejós, 1928) and The Man with the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929).