Patricia Zimmermann, Professor of Screen Studies and Co-director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, delivered two presentations at the 25th Visible Evidence Conference on Documentary at Indiana University, August 8-11, 2018.Patricia Zimmermann, Professor of Screen Studies and Co-director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, delivered two presentations at the 25th Visible Evidence Conference on Documentary at Indiana University, August 8-11, 2018.
Zimmermann presented on William Greaves’ epic documentary, Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey (2002) at a special workshop on the legacy of William Greaves, one of the most prominent African American filmmakers who worked in documentary, sponsored, and narrative film as well as in television. The workshop featured scholars contributing essays to a new anthology on the cinematic legacy of William Greaves edited by Jacqueline Stewart and Scott MacDonald.
She also facilitated a workshop entitled “Participatory Community Media: Fifty Years of Media about Place and Politics.” The workshop was mounted with Louis Massiah, the Executive Director of Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, and Carmel Curtis, digital archivist at Indiana University. Massiah and Zimmermann serve as head curators for the project, with Curtis representing archival partners XFR Collective.
The workshop explored the conceptual models, histories, and curatorial models for their National Endowment for the Arts funded national touring exhibition of the same name which showcases the work of American collectives, community media groups, collaborative projects, and place-based media initiatives on social issues ranging from gentrification, war, health, race, gender, class, sexualities, and the environment across the last fifty years.
The exhibition features media from key organizations such as Scribe Video Center, Black Lives Matter, Appalshop, Visual Communications, Outta Your Backpack Collective, Kartemquin Films, No DAPL media, Chicago Community Media Workshop, Media Mobilizing Project, Downtown Community Television, Newsreel, and many more.
The national tour open in Fall 2019, and includes museums and festivals in New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Houston, San Francisco, Chicago, Boulder, Bloomington, and other venues.
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