[Frameworks] Film/video programers/curators and campus film screenings

[Beebe, Roger W.]

Many of my students who were involved centrally or peripherally with FLEXfest in Florida have gone on to do a wide range of post-graduation programming.  Brendan and Jeremy Smyth, for example, currently run both the Haverhill Experimental Film Festival (HEFF) and Unexposed Microcinema in Durham, NC.  Warren Cockerham programmed the New England Home Movie Tour and had a hand in Luther Price gallery shows at Bennington and Callicoon Fine Arts.  Jodie Mack, who was among the founding group at FLEX, went from there to an internship at the PDX Film Festival in Portland then to SAIC where she programmed the Animation’s World Fair and revived David Gatten’s Eye & Ear Clinic (which Warren Cockerham also did for a bit) and since landing at Dartmouth has programmed a series called Eyewash.  Charlotte Taylor, also one of the original FLEX crew, founded Mechanical Eye Microcinema in Asheville, NC.  Mike Stoltz, who had a hand in helping me set up screenings in the pre-FLEX days, now is part of the group programming the Echo Park Film Center.  This is a very incomplete list, and I’m reluctant to hit send lest I forget someone, but it at least gestures to the Florida/FLEX family tree in a way that shows the connections you’ve asked about.

FYI,
Roger

On Mar 17, 2016, at 2:20 PM, Michael Zryd <zryd at YORKU.CA<mailto: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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