Hi Scott, sorry for your loss I know you two were close and worked together. I met Pam only once when I was being interviewed for a teaching position at Ithaca College in the 80s. She was very supportive of me being a candidate for that position. I remember her kindness to this day. It is a great loss to the filmmaking community.
It saddens me to hear this. Dominic > On Aug 20, 2023, at 5:52 AM, Scott MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear FRAMEWORKERS, > > The unexpected death of Patricia R. Zimmermann on August 17th shocked those > of us who were close to her and is a major loss for the world of independent > cinema and the field of Cinema and Media Studies. Zimmermann, the Charles A. > Dana Professor of Screen Studies, Media Arts, Sciences and Studies at Ithaca > College, was a charismatic college professor. a remarkably productive > scholar, and for the past 19 years, the director of the Finger Lakes > Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF). > Zimmermann’s scholarship was broad ranging. Her Reel Families: A Social > History of Amateur Film (Indiana, 1995) and the collection, Mining the Home > Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memory (California, 2008), a > collaboration with Karen L. Ishizuka, were breakthroughs in the exploration > of vernacular cinemas. > A long-time veteran of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Zimmermann > collaborated with Erik Barnouw on The Flaherty: Four Decades in the Cause of > Independent Cinema (1995, a meta-issue of the journal Wide Angle, edited by > Ruth Bradley); and with me, on The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of > Independent Cinema (Indiana, 2017), and Flash Flaherty: Tales from a Film > Seminar (Indiana, 2021), a collection of 102 stories by Flaherty veterans, > spanning the 7 decades of the seminar. > During the 2000s, she explored new media and the continuing > struggle of independent filmmakers, especially documentary filmmakers, within > an evolving technological world, in States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, > Democracies (2000); Thinking Through Digital Media: Transnational > Environments and Locative Places, co-edited with Dale Hudson (2015); and > Documentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Place and Politics > (2019). > Her essay on William Greaves’ Ralph Bunche project was a capstone for William > Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission (2021, eds., Jacqueline Stewart and MacDonald). > Under Zimmermann’s leadership the Finger Lakes Environmental Film > Festival grew from a regional event into a national and international event, > expanding beyond film to feature new media, art installations and > exhibitions, music, scholars across many disciplines, archives, writers, > filmmakers, artists, musicians, activists, policy analysts, and public health > professionals. > Up until her death, Zimmermann continued to lecture widely, in > North America and Europe. She helped establish and was Editor at Large for > the on-line journal The Edge, published by the Park Center for Independent > Media. She served on the editorial board of Film Quarterly, and, during the > summer of 2023, was actively involved with independent film/photography > exhibitors across central New York State working to build a network of sites > where independent image artists could show their work. > Zimmermann’s unabated, forthright energy and her kindness and > camaraderie with colleagues across the world made her among the best-known > and admired contributors to Cinema and Media Studies and to the expansion of > opportunities to see and produce independent media. It is difficult to > imagine a world without her. > > RIP, dear Patty. > Scott MacDonald > > > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org
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