Re: [Frameworks] Film/video programers/curators and campus film screenings

[Michael Zryd]

Thank you to everyone on- and off-list who shared their stories and experiences 
about programming film in college and university. 

All the responses thus far have been from people in Canada or the US. Has 
anyone outside those countries started programming at campus film societies?

It’s fascinating to hear the creative ways in which people used limited 
resources (including the all-important university film/video collection) and 
the relative freedom afforded by campus screening situations to experiment with 
showing work. And it seems that people are not simply moving from campus to 
film and art venues; rather there’s a persistent move back and forth between 
campus and external venues along programmers' creative and educational 
trajectories. 
 
> On Mar 18, 2016, at 11:02 AM, Tara Nelson  wrote:
> 
> My experience with experimental film started in the micro-cinema scene in 
> Pittsburgh, which was entirely DIY and non-affiliated (though Pittsburgh 
> Filmmakers was very supportive) - Jefferson Presents..., and before them 
> Orgone Cinema - represented two decades of consistent experimental film 
> screenings, completely run by artists (Michael Johnsen, Greg Pierce, Gordon 
> Nelson, Adam Abrams, Jim Mueller).  There is a great history of this scene in 
> INCITE's Exhibition Issue.  
> 
> I went to grad school at MassArt, where Saul Levine runs a weekly Film 
> Society dedicated to avant garde cinema (30+years now). MassArt Film Society 
> shows contemporary work, as well as films from the unique collection at 
> MassArt, and invites artists to present their work on a weekly basis.  I was 
> fortunate to be a graduate assistant for MassArt Film Society - projecting, 
> setting up, print trafficking etc - and I got to meet an incredible variety 
> of filmmakers, and became well acquainted with their work.  Saul was very 
> supportive and allowed me to program a few shows, and provided guidance and 
> assistance when I put together a US tour for Rose Lowder in 2011 (during my 
> last year in grad school).  Rebecca Meyers, who was programming for Emerson 
> at the time, was also incredibly supportive, as was Rob Todd.  The mentoring 
> I received from experienced programmers has been the most valuable outcome of 
> my graduate studies.  I continue to program experimental film screenings in 
> my current capacity as Curator of Moving Image Collections at Visual Studies 
> Workshop, and I include programming and projection in all the courses I teach 
> in Film Production.  
> 
> Filmmaking is a community, not a competition.
> 
> Tara Merenda Nelson
> 
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Beebe, Roger W.  > wrote:
> Many of my students who were involved centrally or peripherally with FLEXfest 
> in Florida have gone on to do a wide range of post-graduation programming.  
> Brendan and Jeremy Smyth, for example, currently run both the Haverhill 
> Experimental Film Festival (HEFF) and Unexposed Microcinema in Durham, NC.  
> Warren Cockerham programmed the New England Home Movie Tour and had a hand in 
> Luther Price gallery shows at Bennington and Callicoon Fine Arts.  Jodie 
> Mack, who was among the founding group at FLEX, went from there to an 
> internship at the PDX Film Festival in Portland then to SAIC where she 
> programmed the Animation’s World Fair and revived David Gatten’s Eye & Ear 
> Clinic (which Warren Cockerham also did for a bit) and since landing at 
> Dartmouth has programmed a series called Eyewash.  Charlotte Taylor, also one 
> of the original FLEX crew, founded Mechanical Eye Microcinema in Asheville, 
> NC.  Mike Stoltz, who had a hand in helping me set up screenings in the 
> pre-FLEX days, now is part of the group programming the Echo Park Film 
> Center.  This is a very incomplete list, and I’m reluctant to hit send lest I 
> forget someone, but it at least gestures to the Florida/FLEX family tree in a 
> way that shows the connections you’ve asked about.
> 
> FYI,
> Roger
> 
> On Mar 17, 2016, at 2:20 PM, Michael Zryd  > wrote:
> 
>> Hi Frameworks: I’m doing some research on what connections (if any) exist 
>> between people who program or curate film, video, and other moving image 
>> media and their experiences in college and university. 
>> 
>> Question: If you are currently programming or curating, did you get any 
>> experience at a college or university campus film society or screening 
>> series?
>> 
>> I know of histories in Toronto at universities like Ryerson, University of 
>> Toronto, and York University, and have read anecdotal accounts from schools 
>> like Binghamton, NY, where students from those schools programmed ambitious 
>> experimental screenings on campus and then continued to program/curate 
>> afterwards, but I’m wondering how widespread that connection is. And whether 
>> it’s a North American phenomenon or if it occurs elsewhere.
>> 
>> 

Re: [Frameworks] Film/video programers/curators and campus film screenings

[JB Mabe]

In my first weeks of college in 1999 at Winthrop University in Rock
Hill, SC I formed an informal film club and held screenings programmed
mostly from the library's collection or my criterion laserdiscs (first
screening was Oscar Micheuax's Within Our Gates). When I transferred
to the University of South Carolina in 2001, I joined the more formal
"Cinematic Arts" committee that programmed out of the Russell House
(where I was also the projectionist with a crappy 35mm platter and an
Eiki 16mm). Some folks might be familiar with the Russell House from
the early days of the Orphan Film Symposium. The budget for student
programming was ridiculously generous (I think due the very popular
football program and university merchandising - Go Gamecocks), and
once per semester I was able to spend about $1000 for a weekend's
worth of programming. Sometimes I'd rent beat up Maurice Pialat prints
from New Yorker (I think), and sometimes I'd rent a ton of stuff from
FMC and Canyon. After college, I did a lot of independent programming,
made my own films, cofounded spaces and festivals, and now I'm in my
first professional programming position at Chicago Filmmakers and the
Onion City Film Festival. That's the short version, anyway.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Michael Zryd  wrote:
> Hi Frameworks: I’m doing some research on what connections (if any) exist
> between people who program or curate film, video, and other moving image
> media and their experiences in college and university.
>
> Question: If you are currently programming or curating, did you get any
> experience at a college or university campus film society or screening
> series?
>
> I know of histories in Toronto at universities like Ryerson, University of
> Toronto, and York University, and have read anecdotal accounts from schools
> like Binghamton, NY, where students from those schools programmed ambitious
> experimental screenings on campus and then continued to program/curate
> afterwards, but I’m wondering how widespread that connection is. And whether
> it’s a North American phenomenon or if it occurs elsewhere.
>
> Please share any stories or personal histories, either privately to me, or
> to the listserv.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Michael Zryd • Associate Professor
> Department of Cinema & Media Arts
> School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
>
> YORK UNIVERSITY
> York Lanes 230 • 4700 Keele Street
> Toronto ON • Canada M3J 1P3
> T 416.736.2100 x66957 / cell: 647-430-8680 / Skype: mjpzryd
> z...@yorku.ca • http://ampd.yorku.ca/about-us/our-faculty/michael-zryd •
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>
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Re: [Frameworks] Film/video programers/curators and campus film screenings

[Tara Nelson]

My experience with experimental film started in the micro-cinema scene in
Pittsburgh, which was entirely DIY and non-affiliated (though Pittsburgh
Filmmakers was very supportive) - Jefferson Presents..., and before them
Orgone Cinema - represented two decades of consistent experimental film
screenings, completely run by artists (Michael Johnsen, Greg Pierce, Gordon
Nelson, Adam Abrams, Jim Mueller).  There is a great history of this scene
in INCITE's Exhibition Issue.

I went to grad school at MassArt, where Saul Levine runs a weekly Film
Society dedicated to avant garde cinema (30+years now). MassArt Film
Society shows contemporary work, as well as films from the unique
collection at MassArt, and invites artists to present their work on a
weekly basis.  I was fortunate to be a graduate assistant for MassArt Film
Society - projecting, setting up, print trafficking etc - and I got to meet
an incredible variety of filmmakers, and became well acquainted with their
work.  Saul was very supportive and allowed me to program a few shows, and
provided guidance and assistance when I put together a US tour for Rose
Lowder in 2011 (during my last year in grad school).  Rebecca Meyers, who
was programming for Emerson at the time, was also incredibly supportive, as
was Rob Todd.  The mentoring I received from experienced programmers has
been the most valuable outcome of my graduate studies.  I continue to
program experimental film screenings in my current capacity as Curator of
Moving Image Collections at Visual Studies Workshop, and I include
programming and projection in all the courses I teach in Film Production.

Filmmaking is a community, not a competition.

Tara Merenda Nelson

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Beebe, Roger W.  wrote:

> Many of my students who were involved centrally or peripherally with
> FLEXfest in Florida have gone on to do a wide range of post-graduation
> programming.  Brendan and Jeremy Smyth, for example, currently run both the
> Haverhill Experimental Film Festival (HEFF) and Unexposed Microcinema in
> Durham, NC.  Warren Cockerham programmed the New England Home Movie Tour
> and had a hand in Luther Price gallery shows at Bennington and Callicoon
> Fine Arts.  Jodie Mack, who was among the founding group at FLEX, went from
> there to an internship at the PDX Film Festival in Portland then to SAIC
> where she programmed the Animation’s World Fair and revived David Gatten’s
> Eye & Ear Clinic (which Warren Cockerham also did for a bit) and since
> landing at Dartmouth has programmed a series called Eyewash.  Charlotte
> Taylor, also one of the original FLEX crew, founded Mechanical Eye
> Microcinema in Asheville, NC.  Mike Stoltz, who had a hand in helping me
> set up screenings in the pre-FLEX days, now is part of the group
> programming the Echo Park Film Center.  This is a very incomplete list, and
> I’m reluctant to hit send lest I forget someone, but it at least gestures
> to the Florida/FLEX family tree in a way that shows the connections you’ve
> asked about.
>
> FYI,
> Roger
>
> On Mar 17, 2016, at 2:20 PM, Michael Zryd  wrote:
>
> Hi Frameworks: I’m doing some research on what connections (if any) exist
> between people who program or curate film, video, and other moving image
> media and their experiences in college and university.
>
> Question: If you are currently programming or curating, did you get any
> experience at a college or university campus film society or screening
> series?
>
> I know of histories in Toronto at universities like Ryerson, University of
> Toronto, and York University, and have read anecdotal accounts from schools
> like Binghamton, NY, where students from those schools programmed ambitious
> experimental screenings on campus and then continued to program/curate
> afterwards, but I’m wondering how widespread that connection is. And
> whether it’s a North American phenomenon or if it occurs elsewhere.
>
> Please share any stories or personal histories, either privately to me, or
> to the listserv.
>
> Thanks!
>
> *Michael Zryd** • **Associate Professor *
> Department of Cinema & Media Arts
> School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
>
> YORK UNIVERSITY
> York Lanes 230 • 4700 Keele Street
> Toronto ON • Canada M3J 1P3
> T 416.736.2100 x66957 / cell: 647-430-8680 / Skype: mjpzryd
> * z...@yorku.ca * •
> http://ampd.yorku.ca/about-us/our-faculty/michael-zryd
>  •
> ampd.yorku.ca
>
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Re: [Frameworks] Film/video programers/curators and campus film screenings

[Beebe, Roger W.]

Many of my students who were involved centrally or peripherally with FLEXfest 
in Florida have gone on to do a wide range of post-graduation programming.  
Brendan and Jeremy Smyth, for example, currently run both the Haverhill 
Experimental Film Festival (HEFF) and Unexposed Microcinema in Durham, NC.  
Warren Cockerham programmed the New England Home Movie Tour and had a hand in 
Luther Price gallery shows at Bennington and Callicoon Fine Arts.  Jodie Mack, 
who was among the founding group at FLEX, went from there to an internship at 
the PDX Film Festival in Portland then to SAIC where she programmed the 
Animation’s World Fair and revived David Gatten’s Eye & Ear Clinic (which 
Warren Cockerham also did for a bit) and since landing at Dartmouth has 
programmed a series called Eyewash.  Charlotte Taylor, also one of the original 
FLEX crew, founded Mechanical Eye Microcinema in Asheville, NC.  Mike Stoltz, 
who had a hand in helping me set up screenings in the pre-FLEX days, now is 
part of the group programming the Echo Park Film Center.  This is a very 
incomplete list, and I’m reluctant to hit send lest I forget someone, but it at 
least gestures to the Florida/FLEX family tree in a way that shows the 
connections you’ve asked about.

FYI,
Roger

On Mar 17, 2016, at 2:20 PM, Michael Zryd > 
wrote:

Hi Frameworks: I’m doing some research on what connections (if any) exist 
between people who program or curate film, video, and other moving image media 
and their experiences in college and university.

Question: If you are currently programming or curating, did you get any 
experience at a college or university campus film society or screening series?

I know of histories in Toronto at universities like Ryerson, University of 
Toronto, and York University, and have read anecdotal accounts from schools 
like Binghamton, NY, where students from those schools programmed ambitious 
experimental screenings on campus and then continued to program/curate 
afterwards, but I’m wondering how widespread that connection is. And whether 
it’s a North American phenomenon or if it occurs elsewhere.

Please share any stories or personal histories, either privately to me, or to 
the listserv.

Thanks!
Michael Zryd • Associate Professor
Department of Cinema & Media Arts
School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design

YORK UNIVERSITY
York Lanes 230 • 4700 Keele Street
Toronto ON • Canada M3J 1P3
T 416.736.2100 x66957 / cell: 647-430-8680 / Skype: mjpzryd
z...@yorku.ca • 
http://ampd.yorku.ca/about-us/our-faculty/michael-zryd
 • ampd.yorku.ca

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Re: [Frameworks] Film/video programers/curators and campus film screenings

[Chuck Kleinhans]

On Mar 18, 2016, at 8:02 AM, Tara Nelson 
> wrote:


Filmmaking is a community, not a competition.



Thanks!  Perfectly captures my feelings and experience


Chuck Kleinhans




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Re: [Frameworks] Film/video programers/curators and campus film screenings

[Robert Haller]

Dear Michael,

In college I was at the University of Notre Dame where I was an
officer/programmer of the Student/Faculty Film Society. We mainly showed
foreign titles (Fellini, Kurosawa, Truffaut, DeSica, and other contemporary
directors) but also Bruce Conner; his  A Movie was shown five or six times
in two years with discussions about editing; when President Kennedy was
killed in Texas we were scheduled to show Last Year At Marienbad once, but
because  all campus events were canceled, except us, we showed the Resnais
film four successive times to sold out audiences.  We always provided typed,
well researched, program notes that we sent to living directors.
Michelangelo Antonioni  liked what I wrote about him and sent me a letter of
approval. So did Carl Foreman and John Frankenheimer (years later I got to
spend time with Frankenheimer and Antonioni). --Robert A. Haller, Anthology
Film Archives

From:  Michael Zryd 
Reply-To:  Experimental Film Discussion List

Date:  Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:20:26 -0400
To:  Experimental Film Discussion List 
Subject:  [Frameworks] Film/video programers/curators and campus film
screenings

Hi Frameworks: I¹m doing some research on what connections (if any) exist
between people who program or curate film, video, and other moving image
media and their experiences in college and university.

Question: If you are currently programming or curating, did you get any
experience at a college or university campus film society or screening
series?

I know of histories in Toronto at universities like Ryerson, University of
Toronto, and York University, and have read anecdotal accounts from schools
like Binghamton, NY, where students from those schools programmed ambitious
experimental screenings on campus and then continued to program/curate
afterwards, but I¹m wondering how widespread that connection is. And whether
it¹s a North American phenomenon or if it occurs elsewhere.

Please share any stories or personal histories, either privately to me, or
to the listserv.

Thanks!
Michael Zryd € Associate Professor
Department of Cinema & Media Arts
School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design

YORK UNIVERSITY 
York Lanes 230 € 4700 Keele Street
Toronto ON € Canada M3J 1P3
T 416.736.2100 x66957 / cell: 647-430-8680 / Skype: mjpzryd
z...@yorku.ca   €
http://ampd.yorku.ca/about-us/our-faculty/michael-zryd
  €
ampd.yorku.ca 


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Re: [Frameworks] Film/video programers/curators and campus film screenings

[Chris Freeman]

Portland State University has the Time Arts Club, a student club that does
screenings and performance events.  They are usually showing student and
community work though.  It's completely student-run and they've been around
long enough that they get a pretty healthy budget from the school.  If they
had an experimental film history buff get involved, they could definitely
do screenings like that.  I think they've mostly been interested in showing
student work though.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Robert Haller <
rob...@anthologyfilmarchives.org> wrote:

> Dear Michael,
>
> In college I was at the University of Notre Dame where I was an
> officer/programmer of the Student/Faculty Film Society. We mainly showed
> foreign titles (Fellini, Kurosawa, Truffaut, DeSica, and other contemporary
> directors) but also Bruce Conner; his  *A Movie* was shown five or six
> times in two years with discussions about editing; when President Kennedy
> was killed in Texas we were scheduled to show *Last Year At Marienbad *
> once*,* but because  all campus events were canceled, except us, we
> showed the Resnais film four successive times to sold out audiences.  We
> always provided typed, well researched, program notes that we sent to
> living directors. Michelangelo Antonioni  liked what I wrote about him and
> sent me a letter of approval. So did Carl Foreman and John Frankenheimer
> (years later I got to spend time with Frankenheimer and Antonioni).
> --Robert A. Haller, Anthology Film Archives
>
> From: Michael Zryd 
> Reply-To: Experimental Film Discussion List <
> frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com>
> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:20:26 -0400
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List 
> Subject: [Frameworks] Film/video programers/curators and campus film
> screenings
>
> Hi Frameworks: I’m doing some research on what connections (if any) exist
> between people who program or curate film, video, and other moving image
> media and their experiences in college and university.
>
> Question: If you are currently programming or curating, did you get any
> experience at a college or university campus film society or screening
> series?
>
> I know of histories in Toronto at universities like Ryerson, University of
> Toronto, and York University, and have read anecdotal accounts from schools
> like Binghamton, NY, where students from those schools programmed ambitious
> experimental screenings on campus and then continued to program/curate
> afterwards, but I’m wondering how widespread that connection is. And
> whether it’s a North American phenomenon or if it occurs elsewhere.
>
> Please share any stories or personal histories, either privately to me, or
> to the listserv.
>
> Thanks!
>
> *Michael Zryd** • **Associate Professor *
> Department of Cinema & Media Arts
> School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
>
> YORK UNIVERSITY
> York Lanes 230 • 4700 Keele Street
> Toronto ON • Canada M3J 1P3
> T 416.736.2100 x66957 / cell: 647-430-8680 / Skype: mjpzryd
> *z...@yorku.ca * •
> http://ampd.yorku.ca/about-us/our-faculty/michael-zryd
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>
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