[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 <zryd at yorku.ca> 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!
>
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