October 9, 2013, 6:15 PM
Department of Cinema Studies, Michelson Theater
721 Broadway, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10003
In honor of the tenth anniversary of NYU's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program and the extraordinary accomplishments of our students and alumni, this event will showcase important efforts in the preservation of women's films.
Featuring: Susan Lazarus (Women's Film Preservation Fund) and filmmaker/artist Andrea Callard, with recent MIAP graduates Rebecca Fraimow (2013), Kristin MacDonough (2013), Brittan Dunham (2011) and Juana Suárez (2013).
Screenings of films by Andrea Callard and Marcela Gómez Montoya. Curated by Juana Suárez and Andrea Callard. This event is free and open to the public.
Program
Opening Remarks: Susan Lazarus, NYWIFT, Women’s Film Preservation Fund
Artist Andrea Callard introduces two of her films:
Flora Funera (for Battery Park City)
Super 8, sound, color, 4 min, 1976; preserved in 16mm by BB Optics
11 thru 12
Super 8, sound, color, 11 min, 1977; preserved in 16mm by BB Optics
Juana Suárez (MIAP 2013) introduces a film by Marcela Gómez:
Migration
2009, 24 min, Colombia, color, Spanish with English subtitles.
DVCAM, Contravía Films and Universidad del Valle, Colombia.
Gómez documents her family’s history of migration to the US in 2001 and her decision to stay in Colombia at age 15. By collecting home movies (in Super 8 film, VHS, Video 8, Hi8, Digital8, MiniDV) and by creating a record of the technology that connected us in those years, Gómez becomes a media archivist/archaeologist and memory keeper.
Respondents: MIAP alumnae
Rebecca Fraimow, Kristin MacDonough, and Brittan Dunham
PARTICIPANTS
(in order of presentation):
Susan Lazarus is a film producer and an active member of New York Women in Film & Television; she served on the board as Vice-President in charge of Programming and is on the Steering Committee of the Women’s Film Preservation Fund. The Women's Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) is the only program in the world dedicated to preserving the cultural legacy of women in the industry. It was founded in 1995 by New York Women in Film and Television in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art.
Andrea Callard is an artist working in film, digital media, and drawing. Her early work was about nature in the city; ideas of landscape and how we live in it continue to be a central preoccupation.
Marcela Gómez Montoya graduated as a journalist from Universidad del Valle (Colombia) and later pursued film studies at the International School of Cinema and Television (EICTV) Havana, Cuba with a concentration in editing. She has directed the short features Penitencia (Penance, 16mm, 2010, shot in San Antonio de los Baños-Cuba) and Escondite (Hide out), 2010, the latter participated in more than fifteen international festivals. Her documentary Migration (2008) merited awards at the Latin American Film Festival in Trieste (Italy, 2009), Best Colombian Documentary (2009), Best Documentary by New Filmmakers 49th International Film Festival Cartagena (2009), among other significant international recognition. In 2012 she directed Flores (Flowers, 16mm, fiction, 2012) which was an Official Selection at the International Film Festival in Guanajuato (Mexico), Cartagena International Film Festival (2013) and the Latin American Film Festival Festival (Biarritz, France).
Rebecca Fraimow (MA) and Kristin MacDonough (MA) are recent graduates from NYU-MIAP. They participated in the Archival Exchange Program (APEX 2013) in Bogota, Colombia. In summer 2013, they worked for the New Museum “XFR STN (Transfer Station)” program, an open door artist center media archiving initiative to provide solutions to preserve, digitize, and archive magnetic support media.
Brittan Dunham (MA) is a graduate from NYU-MIAP (2011). She worked closely in the preservation of Andrea Callard’s Flora Funera and Lost Shoe Blues as a project for the Film Preservation class with Bill Brand. She has recently moved back to New York City to work as the archivist for a private collection that includes both 16mm film and digital media.
Juana Suárez (PhD) is a Latin American cinema, visual culture, and literature scholar, and a 2013 MIAP graduate. She was the main organizer for APEX 2013 at Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano (Colombian Film Heritage Foundation). Together with Andrea Callard, she curated this evening program.