Flaherty on the Road to Make Ithaca Stop Flaherty on the Road, a series of "mini-seminars" commemorating the 43rd Annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, will make a stop at Ithaca College October 4-5. The College's installment, "Exploration in Memory and Modernity," will explore the landscapes and places forming independent media at the dawn of the 21st century. Featuring such renowned media artists as Daniel Reeves '77, Erik Barnouw, Anne-Marie Duguet, Thierry Kuntzel, Scott MacDonald, Branda Miller, Muntadas, Timothy Murray, Barbara Van Dyke, Amos Vogel, Reginald Woolery, and Debra Zimmerman, the seminar will travel through multiple terrains: histories, institutions, analog and digital technologies, regions, aesthetic spaces, political strategies, and hybrid art forms. The seminar will probe the dialectic between historical and new formations of independent media and how each navigates memory and modernity. Works programmed will include documentary film, experimental film, video art, narrative feature and short films, works-in-progress, installations, multimedia, and new digital forms. The seminar will focus on work emanating from New York State and the Northeast region, one of the most active centers of independent media production and criticism. Internationally acclaimed media artist Daniel Reeves '77 will be one of the participants in the Robert Flaherty film seminar here October 4-5. Pictured here is a still from Reeve's Obsessive Becoming (1995). Reeves will also be on campus October 6-11 as the first Skip Landen Professional in Residence, and his exhibit, "Eingang (The Way In)," will open October 7 at the College's Handwerker Gallery. Find complete details in the next issue of the Ithaca College News. The seminar will also feature a Women Make Movies 25th Anniversary Retrospective, a Cinema 16 Revival, and an exposition of emerging artists working in new digital technologies. Seminar co-programmers are Patricia R. Zimmermann, author and professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography at the Roy H. Park School of Communications; and Michelle Materre, executive director of International Film Seminars, Inc., the sponsor of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. Formerly assistant director of Women Make Movies Inc., Materre is currently vice president of KJM3 Productions, an alternative distribution company specializing in African and African diasporic film. The annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar was founded in 1954 by Frances H. Flaherty. The seminar's mission is to nurture exploration, dialogue, and introspection into the art and craft of the moving image. The seminar is dedicated to examining the potential of independent media to illuminate the human spirit. For more than 40 years, it has become firmly established as a one-of-a-kind institution within the international world of independent media. Beginning with a small gathering of filmmakers and students at the Flaherty farm in Vermont, the seminar has evolved into a unique forum that brings together more than 100 participants from the independent media sector including American and international media artists, critics, scholars, curators, librarians and students in an intensive and intimate retreat-like setting. The 43rd annual Robert Flaherty Seminar at Ithaca College is made possible by major support from the James Pendleton Endowment of the Roy H. Park School of Communications. Additional support is provided by the Eastman Kodak Company, the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, and the Cornell University Graduate Program in Film and Video Studies. The Flaherty on the Road series has already made stops this year at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio; and at Sony Music in New York City. After Ithaca, the seminar will move to the City College of New York, and the College of Staten Island. The series is named for pioneering filmmaker Robert Flaherty, whose works include Nanook of the North and Louisana Story. For information related to the Ithaca seminar, call 607-274-1724, or fax 607-274-1664.

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