Flash Flaherty : tales from a film seminar / edited by Scott MacDonald and Patricia R. Zimmermann ; with Julia Tulke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zimmermann, Patricia Rodden, editor.

Tulke, Julia, editor.

MacDonald, Scott, 1942- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Flaherty (Organization).

Independent films--History and criticism.

Independent films.

Independent films--Production and direction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 428 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Flash Flaherty, the much-anticipated follow-up volume to The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema, offers a people's history of the world-renowned Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, an annual event where participants confront and reimagine the creative process surrounding multiple document/documentary forms and modes of the moving image. This collection, which includes a mosaic of personal recollections from attendees of the Flaherty Seminar over a span of more than 60 years, highlights many facets of the "Flaherty experience." The memories of the seminarians reveal how this independent film and media seminar has created a lively and sometimes cantankerous community within and beyond the institutionalized realm of American media culture. Editors Scott MacDonald and Patricia R. Zimmermann have curated a collective polyphonic account that moves freely between funny anecdotes, poetic impressions, critical considerations, poignant recollections, scholarly observations, and artistic insights. Together, the contributors to Flash Flaherty exemplify how the Flaherty Seminar propels shared insights, challenging debates, and actual change in the world of independent media"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Sheafe Satterthwaite, Frances in Her Inglenook

2. Jonas Mekas, A Screening of Flaming Creatures in Vermont

3. Jay Ruby, The Aborted Indigenous Seminar

4. Amalie R. Rothschild, I Was Taken Seriously as a Filmmaker

5. Nadine Covert, Reminiscences of Flaherty

6. Linda Lilienfeld, Notes on the Flaherty Seminar

7. Deirdre Boyle, Video Slowly Emerges at the Flaherty Seminar

8. Juan Mandelbaum, Forty Years

9. Patricia R. Zimmermann, Get Out Your Shovel

10. Lucy Kostelanetz, Godmothers, Godfathers, and an Organization with a Soul

11. Bruce Jenkins, Bordering on Fiction

12. Richard Herskowitz, My First Few Flahertys

13. Ann Michel and Phil Wilde, Video Projection at the Flaherty

14. Michael Grillo, A Medievalist's Projection

15. Lynne Sachs, Refractions

16. Tony Buba, Taking the Plunge

17. Linda Blackaby and Tony Gittens, Media Matters and Meteor Showers

18. Jeffrey Skoller, Thirty Years Later

19. Helen De Michiel, The Flaherty in 1986

20. Louis Massiah, The One Who Names You

21. Philip Mallory Jones, Sparks

22. Timothy Murray, On the Road to Flaherty

23. Su Friedrich, One Lake and Two Kerfuffles

24. Scott MacDonald, Without Anesthesia

25. Mark Geiger, In Over My Head

26. Patti Bruck, Simply Put

27. Stacey Steers, The Flaherty Laboratory

28. Margarita De La Vega Hurtado, Practical Difficulties and Different Locations

29. Ayoka Chenzira, At the Table

30. Andrei Zagdansky, Notes from the 1990 Flaherty Seminar

31. Steven Montgomery, Overcoming Contempt

32. Laura U. Marks, The Scent of Places

33. Aviva Weintraub, Folders

34. Ken Jacobs, The To-Do Over XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX

35. Portia Cobb, Points of Departure

36. Jason Livingston, Many Moons.

37. Kathy Geritz, Programming the 2000 Flaherty Seminar

38. Sami van Ingen, Coming of Age at the Flaherty

39. Marlina Gonzalez, Flaherty 1995

40. Ayisha Abraham, Aurora, Bangalore, Mysore

41. Grace An, Beginnings/Endings

42. Dorothea Braemer, Talking

43. Ulises A. Mejias, Recovering Lost Memories

44. Thomas W. Bohn, I Never Met Robert Flaherty

45. Jacqueline Goss, Tendon Stretches

46. Dan Streible, Up All Night

47. Tan Pin Pin, The Art of Asking Questions

48. Alyce Myatt, Indelible Marks

49. Erika Mijlin, An Unruly Endeavor

50. Vicky Funari, Familiar and Strange

51. Brian L. Frye, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Flaherty

52. Ed Halter and Matt Wolf, Remembering

53. Chi-hui Yang, A Radical Openness

54. Simon Tarr, Flaherty Reflections

55. Lucius Barre, Flaherty Replaces Cannes

56. Howard Weinberg, Film vs. TV: Flaherty &amp

INPUT

57. John Gianvito, I Remember Being Profoundly Moved and Inspired

58. Ilisa Barbash, Five Reflections in Search of the Flaherty's Zeitgeist

59. Sam Gregory, "Witnessing" and Witnessing at the Flaherty

60. Carlos A. Gutiérrez, I Drank the Kool-Aid

61. Joanna Raczyńska, Four Flaherty Seminars

62. Roger Hallas, Critical Humility

63. Jean-Marie Teno, Long Walks

64. Andrés Di Tella, Breaking All the Ordered Surfaces

65. Leandro Katz, Un banquete at Claremont

66. Amir Muhammad, The Sound of White People Talking

67. John Knecht, The Flaherty Finds a New Home at Colgate University

68. Jim Supanick, Stranger Comes to Town

69. Dale Hudson, Patty Sent Me

70. Shannon Kelley,Tilting, Torquing, and Shuffling between Dimensions

71. Jason Fox, Returning to the Scene of the Crime

72. Amalia Córdova, Indigenous Media Detonations

73. John Muse, Forgetting Flaherty

74. Marit Kathryn Corneil, Breathing through the Screen.

75. Richard Shpuntoff, The Act of Seeing Attentively

76. Frances Guerin, From Colgate University to the Central African Republic

77. Dagmar Kamlah, A Virus and a Mission

78. Paweł Wojtasik, I Didn't Know What I Was Doing

79. Dayong Zhao, Scents

80. Josetxo Cerdán, My Own Private Rayuela

81. Karin Chien, Reverberations and Amplifications

82. Caroline Martel, Dans mon imaginaire

83. Susana de Sousa Dias, From Doc's Kingdom to the Brotherhood of the Crystal Skull

84. David Gracon, Homecoming

85. Joel Neville Anderson, My First Flaherty

86. Bo Wang, Everyone Recommended It

87. Gabriela Monroy and Caspar Stracke, Turning the Outside in Again

88. Ohad Landesman, The Tactile Unconscious

89. Alberto Zambenedetti, Small Victories

90. Eli Horwatt, What the Flaherty Taught

91. Hend F. Alawadhi, Certain Voices Were Painfully Missing

92. Ekrem Serdar, Learning Things, Losing Things

93. Jonathan Marlow, Time Travels

94. Roy Grundmann, A Cinema that Breathes

95. Lina Žigelytė, Grass, Rocks, Water

96. Jiangtao (Harry) Gu, Not Exactly a House of Prayer

97. Greg de Cuir Jr., Speaking Nearby Flaherty

98. Sheafe Satterthwaite, No Longer an Odd Voice at the Flaherty

99. John Bruce, Uncertain Expeditions

100. Anocha Suwichakornpong, In That Silence

101. Scott MacDonald, Alas, the Logo!

102. Patricia R. Zimmermann, Seeing Bill Sloan, 1928-2017

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253053992

0253053994

OCLC:

1196820126