Tim Halloran wrote: > Relax. While you do make some relevant points, it's not quite as bad as > that for junior faculty. Everything requires a bit of political finesse > but you do have some rights and can get what you need if you play your > cards right. And I do know what I'm talking about as I am one of them.
Yes! I've taught off and on over the years. Lately I am part time and "junior" at a strongly "tuition-driven" school in which avant-garde film is certainly not the focus. So I don't show a lot of that. But I have found that if you intelligently and passionately make the case to students for, for example, showing film on film, many are receptive. I use some of my prints, borrow some from friends, and use the prints in the school's library that few faculty there use today. Every instructor is going to have a different experience, at different schools, even with different groups of students within the same school. One key is to understand what your students are like in order to talk with them with enthusiasm. Another is to speak with care and passion. Like most people, many students respond to sincerity. But if you don't even care about the difference between showing on celluloid films made to be shown on cellulloid, and showing the same films on video, or worse on poor quality bootleg video, well, then you're arguably contributing to the cause of Canyon's troubles, while also not doing the larger cause of cinem much good. Fred Camper Chicago _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
