36 Facts About Dennis Nyback

Dennis Nyback was an American independent film archivist, found footage filmmaker, historian and writer.

Dennis Nyback owned and operated movie theaters in Seattle, New York and Portland, Oregon.

Dennis Nyback brought it back for a two-week run in March 1993.

Dennis Nyback took the program to Europe in 1995 where he showed it in 15 cities.

Dennis Nyback took it to Europe again in 2005 for screenings in 14 cities.

Dennis Nyback was a guest at the Interfilm Festival in Berlin in December 1998.

Dennis Nyback appeared at the Minimalen Festival, Trondheim, Norway, in March with the program "The Effect of Dada and Surrealism on Hollywood Movies of the 1930s".

Dennis Nyback took films to Europe in spring 2001 with showings in: Leuven, Osnabruck, Kiel, Copenhagen, Leipzig, Cologne, Groningen, Kortrijk, Munich, and Nuremberg.

Dennis Nyback was commissioned by Johannes Schonherr to create "The Open Road: The Myth and Reality of the American Dream" for Europe in 2003.

Dennis Nyback was a juror at the KLIK Animation Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands, in September 2009.

In November 2013, Dennis Nyback was a guest at the Winterthur Film Festival in Zurich, Switzerland where his film "Goodbye Mommie " was screened.

Dennis Nyback purchased the Rose Bud Movie Palace in Seattle in 1979.

Jack Stevenson arranged for Dennis Nyback to come to Boston in the spring of 1991 to show films at The Primal Plunge, The Somerville Theater, and the Coolidge Corner Theater.

In 1992 Dennis Nyback opened the Pike Street Cinema in Seattle in partnership with Elizabeth Rozier.

In 1993 Dennis Nyback drove to Cleveland to see a baseball game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium which the Indians would vacate at the end of the year.

In 1995 Dennis Nyback dismantled the theater, loaded it into a truck, and drove it to New York.

Dennis Nyback reused the projectors, screen, and seats from the Pike Street Cinema.

Dennis Nyback was assisted by Johannes Schonherr who ran the theater while Nyback was showing films in Europe in spring 1996.

At about that time, offered a deal by his landlord Mark Glass, Dennis Nyback accepted a buyout to vacate the theater and closed it.

Dennis Nyback will be on hand to introduce his quirky fare, which alone should be worth the price of admission.

Dennis Nyback returned to San Francisco for shows at the Minna Street Gallery between Christmas and New Years.

Dennis Nyback was a guest at the International Film Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland, in January 1999.

In September 1999 he moved to Portland, Oregon to take over the Clinton Street Theater During his time operating it with Anne Rozier, the theater showed a mix of new and revival films, as well as Dennis Nyback's creations using his archive.

Dennis Nyback sang with the John Holte Swing Band in 1979 and 1980.

Dennis Nyback sang one song, Them There Eyes, in his cabaret show Can't We Be Friends: The Women of Tin Pan Alley, that played in Seattle for two weeks in 1993.

In New York Dennis Nyback sits in and sings with Vince Giordano and His Nighthawks Orchestra.

In Seattle, Washington in November 1994, Dennis Nyback created an installation using three 16mm projectors providing images on walls and the ceiling at oblique angles in an industrial setting for the Northwest Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies gala event "Fantasmi di Fellini".

In 2006 in Portland, Dennis Nyback teamed with Mack McFarland on the PICA TBA artist with the project the Portland That Was.

The culmination of the TBA event was the "All Night Long Film Caravan" where Dennis Nyback projected films on the outside of downtown Portland buildings that were related to historic events of the past in that site specific place.

In March 2011, in Kiel, Germany Dennis Nyback worked with the Film Group Chaos and Karsten Weber to create an installation using three 16mm projectors, three 8mm projectors, and three slide projectors, situated on, and among, disabled water works machinery for the Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein Augenweide.

Dennis Nyback was hired to be a projectionist at The Movie House theater in Seattle, by Randy Finley in 1973 while he was student at the University of Washington allowing him to work his way through college.

Dennis Nyback finished his college education in 1978 with a BA in Psychology.

Dennis Nyback wrote, produced and directed the cabaret musical Can't We be Friends in Seattle in 1993 which played in May and June, starring Nora Michaels, featuring the pianist Jack Brownlow.

Dennis Nyback booked the films; Shakespeare Wallah, The Lusty Men, Talk Radio, Smoke Signals, A Soldier's Story, Marked Woman, and with the Oregon Cartoon Institute, arranged for Bill Plympton to appear, for the 2009 Sesquicentennial Film Festival at Marylhurst University; as well as overseeing the installation of a 35mm projection booth for the festival.

Dennis Nyback taught at Portland State University, the NW Film Center School of Film and Marylhurst University.

Dennis Nyback died after a long battle with cancer at his home in Portland, Oregon, on October 2,2022, at the age of 69.