*Thanks, Steve.* *It was a blow for me--we'd worked together in various ways for 35+ years.*
*Hope you're well.* *Scott* On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 4:40 PM Stephen Anker <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm deeply sorry to hear about this, Scott. > Although I didn't know Patricia myself, her writing informed my own work > over the years. > A sad and premature loss. > My best, Steve > > On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 5:53 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 >> > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org >
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