ALA's Video Round Table invites you to a Sunday morning Program and evening
Gala honoring New Orleans artist-activist, Helen Hill.
Program: Filmmaker Helen Hill: Animation, Activism and Recovery Sunday,
6/26/2011, 10:30-noon, MCC-353
Helen Hill's tragic murder post-Hurricane Katrina has inspired fellow
artists and librarians to preserve her legacy. After her films and materials
were damaged in the flood, Hill engaged with techniques of preservation, and
she promoted do-it-yourself techniques for film archiving and restoration. Join
us for a panel discussion on award-winning filmmaker of experimental animation
and local New Orleans community activist, Helen Hill. This event is
co-sponsored by VRT and ACRL-Arts and co-sponsored in name only by ALCTS-PARS
and SRRT.
Moderator: Howard Besser, Director, New York University's Moving Image
Archiving & Preservation Program Panelists: Brenda A. Flora, Amistad Research
Center; Kara Van Malssen, AudioVisual Preservation Solutions; Dwight Swanson,
Center for Home Movies
Gala: Tribute to Helen Hill, 6/26/2011, 7:00-9:30pm, Zeitgeist
Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center<http://www.zeitgeistinc.net/>, 1618 Oretha
Castle Haley Blvd.
(504) 352-1150; 7-8pm hors d'oeuvres and cash bar, 8-9:30pm program. Tickets:
Advance $15/ Onsite $17 (cash/check; available at VRT Booth #2539 in the
Membership Pavilion, or contact Gala chair, Danette Pachtner:
[email protected])
Helen Hill was a social activist and artist of experimental animation who
lived and created in New Orleans. Her films have received awards and honors,
including entry in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. Hill's
restored flood films as well as a selection of works housed in the Harvard Film
Archive will be screened. Please join VRT and friends of Helen Hill for this
celebration of her life and work. Special thanks to Gala sponsors, Alexander
Street Press<http://alexanderstreet.com/> and Harvard Film
Archive<http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/collections/hill.html>. Proceeds will be
donated to the 2012 Helen Hill
Award<http://www.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/orphans7/helenhill.php> and the Francis Pop
Education Fund<http://www.helenhill.org/tributes.html>.
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues
relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control,
preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and
related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective
working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication
between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and
distributors.
