The Flaherty is pleased to share this year’s Seminar poster with artwork by Nipan Oranniwesna. Living and working in Bangkok, Oranniwesna’s mediums range from painting, sculpture, mixed media, site-specific installation, photography, and video works. His practice delves into personal and collective memories, dealing poetically with spaces, urban cartography and the geo-body of nation/state—ideas that intersect and explore this year’s Seminar theme, To Commune, through visual language.
Seminar Registration is Open
…with Scaled Ticket Pricing!
Seminar Registration rates are scaled and different based on your location. For those living outside of the U.S. or Canada, rates range from $250 USD to $550 USD. For those living within the US or Canada, rates range from $750 to $1500 USD. The higher rates in each range are meant for those who have institutional support. For those paying out of pocket, we encourage you to choose a lower rate that is affordable for you.
May Adadol Ingawanij and Julian Ross
The Flaherty is excited to be working with programmers May Adadol Ingawanij and Julian Ross for the 69th Flaherty Film Seminar, To Commune. It is through their vision that the Seminar found its way to the Thai Film Archive this year and we are so grateful for this partnership in 2024! In addition to co-programming this year’s seminar, May and Julian are also collaborators for their ongoing curatorial project Animinstic Apparatus, exploring affinities between contemporary Southeast Asian artists’ moving image and animistic practices. We are honoured to welcome May and Julian to continue their ongoing creative exchange as programmers for this year’s Seminar.
“We’re thrilled to be working with the Flaherty and the Thai Film Archive on relocating the Seminar to a region that’s so rich in multitudes and home to so many of the most dynamic contemporary filmmakers and artists. The Flaherty’s model of championing nonfiction cinema through fostering sustained collective dialogues is a source of immense curiosity for filmmakers, artists, cinephiles and thinkers around the world. Holding the Seminar in Thailand opens up the possibility of attendance for many people for whom the gathering would otherwise be inaccessible. We’re hugely energised by the openness of spirit of colleagues at the Thai Film Archive and the Flaherty. To make alliances across such different contexts, and to bring the trust to try something new together, feels like the kind of optimism necessary for withstanding the times. We’re really looking forward to returning to Thailand to spend time with everyone at the Seminar, thinking and dreaming together with cinema.”
– May Adadol Ingawanij and Julian Ross
May Adadol Ingawanij | เม อาดาดล อิงคะวณิช is a writer, curator, and teacher. She is Professor of Cinematic Arts at the University of Westminster where she co-directs the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media. May publishes regularly in English and Thai for a wide range of publications. Her recent and ongoing curatorial projects include Legacies, and Animistic Apparatus.
Julian Ross is a researcher, curator and writer based in Amsterdam. He is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, a film program advisor for IDFA, and co-organiser of Doc Fortnight at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, with Sophie Cavoulacos. He is co-director of the interdisciplinary research centre ReCNTR and editorial board member of Collaborative Cataloging Japan.
Patty Zimmermann at the 1994 Flaherty Film Seminar; contact sheet
Patty Zimmermann Memorial Fellowship Fund
in partnership with Visible Evidence
We are thrilled to announce that The Flaherty and Visible Evidence are partnering to co-create a new Fellowship Fund in honor of the late and great Patty Zimmermann (1956-2023). Together, our two organizations are fundraising for a Patricia Zimmermann Professional Development Fellowship Fund, with the proceeds to be divided equally between The Flaherty Seminar and the Visible Evidence Conference.
A tremendous thank you to our 54 donors so far. Please join us now in making any donation – large or small – to make the Patricia Zimmermann Fellowship Fund a reality. ONWARDS!
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RETROSPECTIVE
Pearl Bowser
April 19-20-21
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY
The Boom Is Really An Echo: Selections from the Pearl Bowser Media Collection features rare films highlighting Bowser’s deep connections to Brooklyn as a home, a location for Black activism, and a space for creativity, cultural expression, and community celebration.
Pearl Bowser (1931-2023) worked closely with The Flaherty for over fifteen years, as the organizer (alongside Madeline Anderson) of the Flaherty Black and Third World Filmmakers Mini-Seminar (1975), as Board President (1986-1989) and as Programmer of the groundbreaking 35th Flaherty Film Seminar 1989.
Read The Flaherty’s Tribute to Pearl Bowser in our October Newsletter
Onyeka Igwe, still from The names have changed, including my own and truths have been altered
THANK YOU
Onyeka Igwe with Imani Nikyah Dennison
Flaherty/Colgate Global Filmmaker in Residence
Thank you to Colgate’s Film and Media Studies program for hosting last night’s screening and discussion with Colgate/Flaherty Global Distinguished Filmmaker in Residence Onyeka Igwe and Flaherty Curatorial Fellow (2023) Imani Nikyah Dennison.
Rose Lowder, still from La Source de la Loire
OPEN CALL
Doc’s Kingdom 2024
Call for Programmers
Doc’s Kingdom – International Seminar on Documentary Film is accepting proposals from programmers for its 2024 edition, to be held in Odemira, Portugal, November 19–23. Film and moving image programmers from all nationalities who have participated in a previous edition of Doc’s Kingdom are invited to apply by April 30, midnight (GMT).
