June 2, 2022
Continents of Drifting Clouds
At Colgate University
or online, World Wide
SOLD OUT
Poster Image by Caroline Monnet, superimposed over abstractions from the online seminar space
The in-person seminar may be sold out but we’ve been hard at work to offer you the opportunity to join participants from around the world in our Online Seminar Experience.
Join Us Online!
Poster Image by Caroline Monnet, superimposed over screenshots from the online seminar space build
Building on the feedback and lessons learned from our first online seminar in 2021, a virtuosic creative team has spent much of the last year designing a special online platform uniquely attuned to the needs of The Flaherty Community.
For Continents of Drifting Clouds, we invite participants from far and wide to join us in this custom-built online space. Created around ideas of serendipity, non-hierarchy, non-preconception, agency, play, and connections with the natural and Indigenous worlds, it will be unlike any other online experience. The Flaherty online is built on ohyay by creative technologists Ziv Schneider and Michael Krisch with artistic direction by immersive director and digital artist Alexander Porter, and Mohawk artist, filmmaker and educator Katsitsionni Fox.
Registration rates for the online virtual experience are on a sliding scale from $150 to $1,000.
We will cap the number of participants to ensure a quality experience – please register ASAP!
Poster Image by Caroline Monnet, superimposed over abstractions from the online seminar space
FEEDBACK FROM THE 2021 OPACITY ONLINE EXPERIENCE:
“My online experience could not have been better. It exceeded any expectations I might have had. I met people from all over the globe, struck up friendships, and had conversations that couldn’t ever happen by a gathering, in Hamilton NY or any other singular location.”
— 2021 Participant
“I found it incredibly democratizing and opening. So many of the social hierarchies and regional biases were erased and it allowed a multiplicity of voices [...] as a gathering of thought and idea this was a tremendous experience. ”
— Lee Anne Schmitt
Congratulations to the 2022 Fellowship Recipients!
The Flaherty received a very high number of outstanding applications for our fellowship program, this was an extremely competitive application pool and we are very pleased to announce our 2022 Flaherty Seminar Fellows.
Fellowships are made possible thanks to the generous support of Black Public Media, California College of the Arts, Duke University, The Film Study Center at Harvard University (FSC), Firelight Media, Kin Theory, Kate Cashel Fund of The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region, LEF Foundation New England, University of California San Diego, University of Colorado, Oolite Arts, and Waterman II fund of the Philadelphia Foundation. Thank you to the Nia Tero Foundation for underwriting five Professional Development Fellowships.
Black Public Media Fellows
J. Bird Lathon
Aja Evans*
California College of the Arts
Michael Anthony
Bahar Gözmener*
Colin Tianyang Zhang
California Institute of the Arts Fellows
Udval Altangerel*
Ali Vanderkruyk*
Nehal Vyas
Duke University Fellows
Simone Barros
Juan Velázquez
Flaherty Curatorial Fellows
Ha’aheo Auwae-Dekker*
Viridiana Martínez Marín
Arnaldo Rodríguez Bagué
Isabel Rojas*
Iván Reina Ortiz
Toby Wu
Flaherty Professional Development Fellows
Che Applewhaite*
Felipe Contreras*
Anaís Córdova-Páez
Iván Delgado*
Angeline Gragasin*
Miciana Hutcherson*
Anuj Malhotra
Lindiwe Matshikiza
Violeta Mora
Colleen Thurston*
Raven Two Feathers*
Harvard Film Study Center Fellows*
Max Bowens
Salmaan Mirza
Kate Cashel Fund George Stoney Fellowship*
Alexandra Kumala
LEF New England Fellows*
Emily Abi-Kheirs
Milton Guillen
Bea Hesselbart
Leigh Morfoot
NBC Original Voices Fellows
Damon Davis
Set Hernandez Rongkilyo
Stephen Maing
Michael Premo
Jillian Schlesinger
Oolite Arts Fellows*
Greko Sklavounos
Keisha Rae Witherspoon
UC San Diego Fellow
Kelechi Agwuncha
University of Colorado - Boulder Fellows*
Bentley Brown
Toma Peiu
Waterman II fund of the Philadelphia Foundation Fellows*
Amy Hicks
Arely Marisol Pena
Awra Tewolde-Berhan
Yinan Wang
Tshay Williams
* attending in Hamilton, NY
Departures
Dear friends,
Heddy Honigmann was one of the most memorable guests in my experience with the Flaherty Seminar. Not only did she talk openly about her own films, but she showed genuine interest in the work of other participants and was very involved in the entire week. Her warmth, sympathetic interest, and intelligence were an inspiration to everyone. She was a unique talent who brought compassionate insight into the human condition.
-Nadine Covert
Honigmann was a part of the 47th Flaherty Film Seminar programmed by Elaine Charnov and Jytte Jensen in 2001. Read More in her obituary. [This link is behind a paywall. Available to subscribers of the NYTimes]
Order Now - Opacity Seminar Catalogue
The bilingual print edition of the expanded Opacity Seminar Catalogue will be available soon.
Print copies will be available to purchase at Continents of Drifting Clouds.
Graphic by Rid, Darwin Marinho, and Ella Monstra of ‘Carnaval no Inferno’ Collective
The Opacity Catalogue is co-edited by Dessane Lopez Cassell and Carol Almeida, with contributions by Tina Campt, Tatiana Carvalho Costa, Amaranta César, Christopher Harris, Janaína Oliveira, Athi-Patra Ruga, Yeelen Cohen, and Grace Passô. Managing editor: Jason Fox. Design by Rid, Darwin Marinho and Ella Monstra of ‘Carnaval no Inferno’ Collective.
Other News
Flaherty Fellows
100 Ways to Cross the Border
100 Ways to Cross the Border, a feature length performance documentary on the artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña, directed by Amber Bemak (2016) will have it's world premiere at BAMcinemafest, June 25th, 4:15 pm.
Learn More: https://www.bam.org/film/2022/cfest-100-ways-to-cross-the-border
Flaherty Filmmakers
META-LANDSCAPES
Representations and Perceptions
Group Exhibition Malta
Valletta Contemporary
28th April 2022 to 25th June 2022
Curated by Chris Meigh-Andrews
Participating artists: Norbert Francis Attard (MT), Vince Briffa (MT), Robert Cahen (FR), peter campus (USA), Terry Flaxton (UK), Gary Hill (USA), Madelon Hooykaas (NL) (FNYC 2018), Beryl Korot (USA),Chris Meigh-Andrews (UK), Michael Snow (CA), Yeoul Son (KR), and Steina Vasulka (IS/USA). Learn More: https://www.vallettacontemporary.com/
"Enter Germs, Enter the World" essay published in Millennium Film Journal #75 BOUNDARIES
In Millennium Film Journal 75, Jeanne Liotta's (FNYC 2021) essay 'Enter Germs, Enter the World' reflects on artist films of the AIDS era. “The film’s surface became a locus for protest, memory, lament and celebration, for violence and erasure, tenderness and beauty, conjuring a queered image and participating in the emotional alchemy of a body politic.”
Learn more: https://millenniumfilmjournal.com/product/mfj-75-boundaries/
Flaherty Recommends
Preorder the Latest Issue of Seen Journal
Starting June 7, preorder your copy of the latest issue of Seen journal, featuring 2022 Seminar Programmer Sky Hopinka and artist Martine Syms.
Published in print by BlackStar, Seen focuses on film, art, and visual culture writing by and about Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. Learn more at: https://blackstarfest.org/seen/
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