Saturday, November 19, 2022, 8:00 pm
| PRELINGER’s HOME MOVIES + BEST OF FOUND FOOTAGE FEST |
| Prelinger presente! Yes, walking amongst us is thee planet’s most visionary polymath facilitating Public Memory, and tonight he brings us a pair of revelatory programs of amateur films originally curated for the esteemed Art Gallery of Ontario. One is the broader Panorama, a half-hour “montage” of clips from personal, small-gauge cameras, surveying everyday life in the last half of the 20th Century. His other “special collection” is a super-rare cache of 8mm material from an African-American scene-maker in the River Rouge (Detroit) area from the dynamic ’63-’67 period, including dances, street views, and historic anti-racism protests. After Rick‘s home-movie hour, we return for a 40-min. focus on archival production in the Art World, drawing from the fantastic Found Footage boxset recently published by the eponymous Spanish collective…their marvelous catalog boasting exquisite digital versions of essential pieces from the last 60 years. Five of their 16 selections will sparkle again on our big screen—landmark works from Jeff Keen, Cécile Fontaine, Thomas Draschan, Jean-Gabriel Périot, and Gianikian/Lucci. Free film cans! *$10 |