16mm Film Salon
With Skip Elsheimer of A/V Geeks and Luke Savisky 
Sunday, August 29, 1PM
Location: El Dorado Ballroom, 2310 Elgin Ave
FREE Admission  (RSVP Requested)

Like movies themselves, film collections have auteurs. Join us for a 16mm discussion about techniques for presentation and archiving with special visiting artists and 16mm collectors Skip Elsheimer and Luke Savisky.  The two collectors will screen samples of favorite clips and projects as well as discuss their experiences in preserving and sharing the underutilized medium of film.

Founder of A/V Geeks, a club focused on educational motion pictures, Skip Elsheimer has been collecting small-gauge films since his teenage years and now boasts a pool of about 18,000 of the strangest films known to man. Combing the fallout from government auctions, he has accumulated a remarkable collection of “orphan” films. Essentially castaways, they are the films no one else wants: classroom films, home movies, industrial films.

Austin-based artist Luke Savisky earned his BFA at the University of Texas at Austin.  He is known for stretching the limits of visual media, using optical illusions, light sculpting ad direct projection techniques on unusual projection surfaces.  He is also proud to call himself a film geek and will be a part of Media Archeology.