Patricia Zimmermann/Open Spaces Blog

Patricia Zimmermann, Open Spaces Blog

Patricia Zimmermann is professor of cinema, photography and media arts at Ithaca College and codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. She is the author and/or coeditor of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (Indiana), States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies (Minnesota), Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories (California), and The Flaherty: Four Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema (Wide Angle). In 2010, she will be the Shaw Foundation Professor endowed chair of New Media Technology in the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.