Ithaca College

Patricia Zimmermann, Professor of Screen Studies and Co-director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, delivered an invited lecture at the University of Colorado on March 5 entitled “The Historiography of We Tell:  Fifty Years of Participatory Community Media.”

The lecture focused on the research, curatorial, and historiographic process of creating and mounting We Tell:  Fifty Years of Participatory Community Media national touring exhibition. 

She also conducted a workshop with graduate students on thinking through the historiographic and archival issues of the project with archivist Carmel Curtis, one of the researcher/archivists on the project and an archivist at Indiana University. 

Zimmermann co-programmed We Tell: Fifty Years of Participatory Community Media with Louis Massiah of Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia. 

We Tell is a national traveling exhibition of short documentaries produced by community media entities from 1967 to the present. It is programmed in six themes emerging in community media:  Body Publics, Collaborative Knowledges, Environments of Race and Place, States of Violence, Turf, and Wages of Work. 

The exhibition features 41 media works from 36 diverse community-based producers, and works from 19 states and Puerto Rico.  

We Tell is supported through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation Just Films, and the Independence Public Media Foundation.