“WORK”
THE 56th ROBERT FLAHERTY FILM SEMINAR
JUNE 19 – 25, 2010, COLGATE UNIVERSITY, HAMILTON, NY
PROGRAMMER: Dennis Lim
Work consumes our daily lives - as a means of survival, a badge of identity, and a lifelong source of joy or sorrow. Bringing together a wide range of films and videos, WORK, the 2010 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, will examine the ways in which artists depict and explore the daily rituals and larger implications of work as well as the changing nature of work and the workplace. The Seminar will provide a panoramic survey of work in its many facets - from the history of labor strife to the rise of global capitalism to the abandoned working class of post-industrial societies in America and China.
2010 Programmer: Dennis Lim
Dennis Lim is a New York based critic and editor. He is the founding editor of Moving Image Source, the online publication and research resource of the Museum of the Moving Image. He writes regularly for The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times, and was a film critic at The Village Voice from 1998 to 2006, as well as its film editor from 2000 to 2006. He is also the editor of "The Village Voice Film Guide" (Wiley, 2006). A member of the National Society of Film Critics, he is currently a member of the New York Film Festival selection committee and he teaches in the Cultural Reporting and Criticism graduate program at New York University.