63rd Annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Colgate University, US

Authors

  • Patricia R. Zimmermann Ithaca College, Roy H. Park School of Communications, 14850, Ithaca NY

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v5n1.371

Keywords:

Robert Flaherty, Frances Flaherty, future remains, Vincent Carelli, Filipa César, Laura Huertas Millan, Eduardo Williams, Kevin Everson, Dominic Gagnon, Peter Nestler, Laura Poitras, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Nuno Lisboa, nonpreconception

Abstract

This article reviews the 63rd Annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar at Colgate University in the United States, which ran in late June 2017.

Author Biography

Patricia R. Zimmermann, Ithaca College, Roy H. Park School of Communications, 14850, Ithaca NY

Patricia R. Zimmermann is Professor of Screen Studies at Ithaca College and is also codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. She has served as the Ida Beam Professor at the University of Iowa and the Shaw Foundation Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She is currently a Fulbright Specialist. She is author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film; States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies; Thinking Through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places (with Dale Hudson), Open Spaces: Openings, Closings, and Thresholds of International Public Media; Open Space New Media Documentary: A Toolkit for Theory and Practice (with Helen De Michiel) and The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema (with Scott MacDonald). She is co-editor (with Karen Ishizuka) of Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories. A media historian and theorist, she specializes in documentary, new media, film/media/new media history, amateur film and emerging amateur technologies, and institutional histories of the international public media arts sectors.

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Published

2018-01-06

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2018): Music and sound in cinema

Section

Exhibitions and film festivals