thomas josé stathes
new york city
Education
Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY 2007-2010
•Digital Art and Design/Visual and Performing Arts
Studied Photoshop, color theory, painting, illustration, 3D design, traditional 35mm black and white photography, new media and media history.
BA. CUNY Interdisciplinary Program/Queens College, Flushing, NY. 2010-2013
•Historic Media Research and Conservation
Self-tailored undergraduate degree focusing on film history studies, including 16mm film production.
Selected Projects
•Integrated City (2011) 16mm, b&w.
Short film. Exhibited at Queens Museum on May 19, 2012 in A Frame Apart, the Queens Film Series for the museum's biennial Queens International focus on Queens-based artists.
•100th Anniversary of Bray Studios (2014)
Provided rare archival source material and produced digital restorations for national Turner Classic Movies cable retrospective, also co-hosted program with Robert Osborne.
•Cartoon Roots (series, 2014-)
Providing rare archival source material and producing digital restorations for ongoing series of home video and streaming programs; serving as producer, writer, video editor, and distributor. Three programs released, three more currently in production.
•Cartoon Carnival: The Documentary (2015)
Serving as consulting producer, interviewee, and provider of archival source material.
Professional History
Higher Education Instructor
School of Visual Arts New York, NY. February 2009-Present.
• History of Animation & Animation Survey Instructor under Film & Animation and Art History departments.
Courses taught:
Highlights of European Animation
History of Animation (Pre-College Summer Program for High Schoolers)
Monochromatic Arts: Creativity in Black and White
A World of Animation
• Guest Lecturer & Substitute Teacher. Film History studies (various classes).
Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema (Brooklyn College) Brooklyn, N.Y. January 2018-Present.
• Instructor: History of Animation & VFX.
Independent Film Archivist and Consultant June 2005-Present
• Researching, locating, preserving and distributing historical films.
• Transferring 16mm-to-Digital film using Tobin TVT-16
• Maintaining and exhibiting personal archive of 2000+ film prints.
• Major clients include Walt Disney Archives, Turner Classic Movies, others.
The Library of Congress: Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation, Culpeper, VA. July 2009-Present
• Early Animation Consultant. Viewing, inspecting, and properly identifying nitrate and safety film prints; inspection and identification of unsorted film prints and preparation for proper archival storage; identifying and organizing paper materials donated in conjunction with film collections.
Independent Film Exhibitor: Silent Films and Cartoons June 2009-Present
• Presenting and screening historical films. Roughly 100 public events to date.
Major venues include BAMcinematek, Animation Block Party, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York Hall of Science, Animation Nights New York, many others.
Museum of the Moving Image Astoria, NY. September-December 2012
• Film Department Intern. Researching and compiling program notes and PR.
Queens Historical Society Flushing, NY. Summer 2006
• Volunteer. Archiving and cataloging objects in museum collection.
Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY 2007-2010
•Digital Art and Design/Visual and Performing Arts
Studied Photoshop, color theory, painting, illustration, 3D design, traditional 35mm black and white photography, new media and media history.
BA. CUNY Interdisciplinary Program/Queens College, Flushing, NY. 2010-2013
•Historic Media Research and Conservation
Self-tailored undergraduate degree focusing on film history studies, including 16mm film production.
Selected Projects
•Integrated City (2011) 16mm, b&w.
Short film. Exhibited at Queens Museum on May 19, 2012 in A Frame Apart, the Queens Film Series for the museum's biennial Queens International focus on Queens-based artists.
•100th Anniversary of Bray Studios (2014)
Provided rare archival source material and produced digital restorations for national Turner Classic Movies cable retrospective, also co-hosted program with Robert Osborne.
•Cartoon Roots (series, 2014-)
Providing rare archival source material and producing digital restorations for ongoing series of home video and streaming programs; serving as producer, writer, video editor, and distributor. Three programs released, three more currently in production.
•Cartoon Carnival: The Documentary (2015)
Serving as consulting producer, interviewee, and provider of archival source material.
Professional History
Higher Education Instructor
School of Visual Arts New York, NY. February 2009-Present.
• History of Animation & Animation Survey Instructor under Film & Animation and Art History departments.
Courses taught:
Highlights of European Animation
History of Animation (Pre-College Summer Program for High Schoolers)
Monochromatic Arts: Creativity in Black and White
A World of Animation
• Guest Lecturer & Substitute Teacher. Film History studies (various classes).
Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema (Brooklyn College) Brooklyn, N.Y. January 2018-Present.
• Instructor: History of Animation & VFX.
Independent Film Archivist and Consultant June 2005-Present
• Researching, locating, preserving and distributing historical films.
• Transferring 16mm-to-Digital film using Tobin TVT-16
• Maintaining and exhibiting personal archive of 2000+ film prints.
• Major clients include Walt Disney Archives, Turner Classic Movies, others.
The Library of Congress: Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation, Culpeper, VA. July 2009-Present
• Early Animation Consultant. Viewing, inspecting, and properly identifying nitrate and safety film prints; inspection and identification of unsorted film prints and preparation for proper archival storage; identifying and organizing paper materials donated in conjunction with film collections.
Independent Film Exhibitor: Silent Films and Cartoons June 2009-Present
• Presenting and screening historical films. Roughly 100 public events to date.
Major venues include BAMcinematek, Animation Block Party, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York Hall of Science, Animation Nights New York, many others.
Museum of the Moving Image Astoria, NY. September-December 2012
• Film Department Intern. Researching and compiling program notes and PR.
Queens Historical Society Flushing, NY. Summer 2006
• Volunteer. Archiving and cataloging objects in museum collection.
