Steve Massa

STEVE MASSA is the author of "Lame Brains and Lunatics: The Good, The Bad, and The Forgotten of Silent Comedy", and has organized comedy film programs for the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Pordenone Silent Film Festival. In addition to consulting with the EYE Filmmuseum, Netherlands and other archives, and writing for journals such as Griffithiana, he is a founding member of Silent Cinema Presentations which produces NYC's Silent Clowns Film...See more

STEVE MASSA is the author of "Lame Brains and Lunatics: The Good, The Bad, and The Forgotten of Silent Comedy", and has organized comedy film programs for the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Pordenone Silent Film Festival. In addition to consulting with the EYE Filmmuseum, Netherlands and other archives, and writing for journals such as Griffithiana, he is a founding member of Silent Cinema Presentations which produces NYC's Silent Clowns Film Series. Steve has also contributed articles and commentary tracks to many DVD collections such as "The Forgotten Films of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle", "Harry Langdon: Lost and Found", and Kino Lorber's "Buster Keaton: The Short Films Collection", and Undercrank Productions' "The Mishaps of Musty Suffer". See less