(According to recent custom, NPR will broadcast the festival and archive it online).
It's an amateur, in fact, who heads up the festival's archive strand: the startling photos of mid-century Chicago by nanny-turned-posthumous phenomenon Vivian Maier will receive their first UK showing.
The buyers will be able to see all the films and others from the festival's archives.
Taken from a 1961 radio broadcast, this famous performance, long familiar on the bootleg circuit, finally gets a commercial release as part of Orfeo's series devoted to the Bayreuth festival's archives.
Throw in a tour of the costume and prop warehouse, a visit to the festival's extensive archive — is that Christopher Walken as Romeo!? — and a stroll through the special 60th-anniversary exhibition on the festival's history, and you might miss the rest of what Stratford has to offer.
The two musicians, both regular figures in New York's queer underground scene, were putting the finishing touches on their ambitious new project called INDEX Festival: A Living Archive, which was set to open its doors later that afternoon.
At the Doris Duke Studio Theater, Ann Carlson recreates Pillow history in "Night Light" with the aid of photographs from the festival's rich archives and live performers who include local volunteers and Pillow students.
As well as giving western audiences a chance to see work, including The Suitor, rescued from this archive, the festival boasts a raft of more recent productions filmed in Afghanistan (if mostly financed abroad), some of them made by Afghan directors.
Although the festival showcases films from its archives regularly at the IFC Center in Greenwich Village and in other cities, and its parent organization, Gkids, has become a theatrical distributor, the festival's annual competition has been limited to New York.
