January 2020
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
“There isn’t just this one lot of cinema. There’s tons of cinemas and in India [...] we have tons of industries of film. Every state has a full industry and that full industry has a mainstream and it has an art context and it has a new generation of people making works. There’s a lot of work out there...”
Activating Our Archives
We look forward to sharing our archives with you in new and exciting ways in 2020. Check out our IGTV page to hear 2020 programmer Shai Heredia discuss how she finds work, our founder Frances Flaherty explain the difference between a Flaherty film and the documentary movement, and filmmaker William “Bill” Greaves compare filmmaking to scientific theories at the 37th Annual Flaherty Film Seminar in 1991.
Registration & Fellowship Applications for the 2020 Seminar will open on Tuesday, January 21st
The Seminar began in 1950s-before the era of film schools-when Robert Flaherty's widow, Frances, convened a group of filmmakers, critics, curators, musicians, and other film enthusiasts at the Flaherty farm in Vermont. The 2020 theme will be officially announced before registrations open.
Registrations are on a first come, first served basis. Please email ifs@flahertyseminar.org if you have any queries.
Early registration: $1,450 (limited to the first 20 people)
Regular registration: $1,550
Late registration: $1,650 (after April 1 – if space is available)
Student registration: $975 (limited to the first 10 students, with valid student ID)
The Flaherty offers a limited number of fellowships and grants to graduate students, emerging filmmakers, and mid-career professionals who would be unable to attend the Seminar without financial support. The fellows’ program is rigorous and rewarding and is designed to encourage diversity of geography, ethnicity, class and experience levels within the participant pool, which is essential in providing the unique critical experience of the Flaherty.
2020 Seminar Programmer
Janaína Oliveira has a Ph.D. in History and is a professor at the Federal Instituto of Rio de Janerio (IFRJ) and Fulbright scholar at the Center for African Studies at Howard University, in Washington D.C. She is the head programmer of the Zózimo Bulbul Black Cinema Encounter in Rio de Janeiro, part of the programming committee of the FINCAR, International Women Filmmakers Festival in Recife, and the advisor for African and black diaspora films for the Locarno Film Festival, in Switerzland.
She is a member of the Association of Black Audiovisual Professionals (APAN) and is the founder and coordinator of the Black Cinema Itinerant Forum (FICINE). Oliveira becomes the first Brazilian to program the seminar since its creation in 1954, and the sixth Latin American programmer.
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Applications NOW OPEN for the Oberhausen Seminar (Germany) which runs from May 13 - 18 in conjunction with the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. The Flaherty is happy to partner with Oberhausen to organize the seventh Oberhausen Seminar
The Oberhausen Seminar is an experimental course that examines the moving image in contemporary art in the context of a renowned international film festival. International actors from various fields - artists and filmmakers, curators and scientists - use the Short Film Festival as a laboratory in which curatorial preconditions, infrastructures in which these moving images circulate, and the critical parameters according to which they are analyzed are questioned. The seminar will be held in English.
For further information and application information visit: Oberhausen Seminar.
Application deadline is February 15, 2020.
2019 Catalog Available Now!
The 2019 Seminar Catalogue includes detailed information about the 65th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. This publication is the result of a collaboration between Flaherty / International Film Seminars, Inc. and World Records, in conjunction with the Action: the 2019 Flaherty Film Seminar, programmed by Shai Heredia.
Thank you to all our contributors: Shai Heredia, Jason Fox, Abby Sun, Joel Neville Anderson, Lakshmi Padmanabhan, Priya Sen, Ani Maitra, Pooja Rangan, Aparna Sharma, Jim Supanick, Tenzin Phuntsog, Jheanelle Brown, Chet Pancake, and Carl Elsaesser.
Edited by World Records
Design by Dan Schrempf
Copy Editing by Nadine Covert
Flaherty Programmers
Mathilde Walker-Billaud, Courtney Stephens (2019 Flaherty NYC Programmers) and Kara Oehler will host Women in Public in collaboration with Triangle Arts Association and UnionDocs on January 23-26 at Triangle Arts Association. Two visual lecture-performances and a filmmaking workshop investigate the role of wandering in the artistic and experience-gathering process, with a focus on the perspectives of women. The highlight of the program is the presence of the French writer Nathalie Léger, author of "Suite for Barbara Loden" about Barbara Loden's masterpiece "Wanda" (Dorothy Project, 2016).
Flaherty Fellows
Anto Astudillo (Flaherty Fellow 2017) will be presenting “The People’s Revolt”: A Showcase of New Chilean Experimental Cinema at Anthology Film Archive, January 23. “New experimental cinema in Chile exposes and criticizes the abuse of power coming from governmental authorities, the police, and the military by borrowing elements of journalistic photography and Chile’s unique documentary culture.” This program – organized on the occasion of the current social uprising in Chile – presents a diverse selection of new experimental work made by Chilean filmmakers living in Chile and abroad. Many of the works included here have never been screened theatrically before.
AROUND THE COUNTRY
Science Non-Fiction is a recent series of films that sits at the intersection of science and experimental documentary. During a period of rapid advancement in the brain sciences, as well as a new media world of machine intelligence and human vulnerability, the films examine raw, unfettered human emotion and behavior. Curated by William Noland, the program screens at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 18.
Call for Entries
The MacDowell Colony seeks applications for the Summer 2020 Residency Season. MacDowell provides time, space, and an inspiring environment to artists of exceptional talent. A MacDowell Fellowship consists of exclusive use of a studio, accommodations, and three prepared meals a day for two weeks to two months. There are no residency fees. Artists are responsible for materials and travel expenses: financial assistance is available to artists in residence based on need. MacDowell encourages applications from artists representing the widest possible range of perspectives and demographics. The sole criterion for acceptance is artistic excellence. The deadline is January 15 and the residency programs will take place in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
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With your support, we will continue to bring filmmakers and audiences of all levels together. All contributions, whether large or small, help ensure the excellence of Flaherty programs for many years to come. Every donation makes it easier for us to support the artists in their art and to inspire others to create. Any amount you are able to donate will have a big impact.
If you prefer to donate by check please make it out to: The Flaherty, 80 Hanson Place, #603, Brooklyn, NY 11217.
About the Flaherty
The Flaherty is a media arts organization that brings together diverse, curious minds to foster an in-depth discourse on film and the creative process. We believe in the transformative power of the moving image and its ability to change how we think about film, and the world we live in. Since 1954, our unique Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, has provided an unparalleled opportunity to explore beyond known limits of the moving image and renew the challenge to discover, reveal and illuminate the ways of life of peoples and cultures throughout the world.
