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Timothy Yim-Stueve sitting on a park bench

I was born in Portland, Oregon in 1999. I grew up just outside of Bend in Central Oregon, where I had an imaginative childhood in the high desert countryside. I went to Concordia University, Irvine for a BA in English Literature, where I also met my future wife. Out of a deep passion for film history, I then decided to pursue film preservation, thereafter attending the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation and Restoration at the George Eastman Museum and University of Rochester in New York, where I completed my Master's. I worked for two years as the theater manager of the historic Dryden Theater at the Eastman Museum, where I grew an even deeper appreciation for film history, particularly the silent era, right from the spot where motion pictures were invented and manufactured. In December of 2025, my wife and I relocated back to the West Coast for good — to Los Angeles. In LA, I now work at five different theaters across the city with two organizations: The UCLA Film and Television Archive and the American Cinematheque.

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How I Fell in Love with Film

I wasn't a film fanatic as a child. I do have very fond memories of my family hosting outdoor film screenings in our backyard, particularly one of Raiders of the Lost Ark. I began to develop more of my own taste by middle school. I started exploring some films on my own, and fell in love with the likes of The Elephant Man, The Graduate, and Wes Anderson films. In the 8th grade, an English teacher at my school by the name of Mark Lindow gave me a copy of Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia to watch. That changed my whole film-viewing world. I soon fell in love with Eastern European and Eurasian cinema, a region of enduring interest to me. The film that really ignited an everlasting flame in me, though, was Aguirre, the Wrath of God. Ever since that year of watching great films in 2014, I have sought to explore and understand as much film history as possible.

My Work as a Film Archivist

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Advocacy for Video Game Preservation

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My Beliefs

I am a theist existentialist. I was raised Lutheran, which still affects how I see the world. Tarkovsky has made me very interested in Eastern Orthodoxy, and I have spent many years now going to Orthodox churches regularly, though I am not a member. I also find great spiritual truth in the Tao Te Ching, and in the Orthodox text Christ the Eternal Tao. I believe cinema is a fundamentally spiritual medium, though it may not often be treated as such. My thought is highly influenced by Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein. I believe spirituality and alms giving are one and the same. If we do not care for the homeless, then we have no right ascribing to any spirituality. My political beliefs could be characterized as Social Democrat.