"WITNESSES, MONUMENTS, RUINS"

THE 55TH ROBERT FLAHERTY FILM SEMINAR
JUNE 20 – 26, 2009, COLGATE UNIVERSITY, HAMILTON, NY
PROGRAMMER: IRINA LEIMBACHER

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The 2009 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar took place at Colgate University from June 20 - 26, 2009. Colgate offered state-of-the-art projection facilities, smart classrooms, cozy and comfortable discussion spaces, and a beautiful rural setting."Witnesses, Monuments, Ruins"Moving images have become the most common mode of relating to the events of our times – whether catastrophic wars, political change, or precious moments of everyday life. These images capture the words and gestures of those who speak before a camera. They observe the monuments and ruins left by the past. And they also interpret, intervene in, and re-invent the testimonial act itself.The 2009 Flaherty Seminar explored the act of bearing witness - bringing memory, experience, and history into the present - through an eclectic range of topics and formal approaches, in works from the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the United States.2009

PROGRAMMER: Irina Leimbacher

Irina Leimbacher Irina Leimbacher is former Artistic Director at San Francisco Cinematheque, where she worked for twelve years, and is co-founder and co-curator of kino21, a non-profit film screening series in San Francisco. She is completing her Ph. D. in Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley. Aside from the Cinematheque, she has curated film and video programs for Film Arts Foundation, the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Arab Film Festival, San Francisco Camerawork, Pacific Film Archive, Cinema Project in Portland, Oregon, and elsewhere. In addition, she presented her 5 program touring series of the work of early feminist film pioneer Germaine Dulac at MoMA, New York, Cinematheque Ontario in Toronto, and UCLA Film Archive in Los Angeles. Her writing has been published in Release Print, Camerawork, Framework, Film Comment, Film Quarterly, Discourse, and Wide Angle. Her dissertation is on forms of testimony and interview in non-fiction film.