Independent Media Preservation
Meet The Makers at Cinema Arts Festival
Wednesday, November 10, 4:30PM
Location: Freed Auditorium, Glassel School
FREE

Media arts archivists and professionals from the Menil Archive, SWAMP, and Aurora Picture Show will discuss current trends and issues in independent media preservation. Each of them will project examples of works from their collections, ranging from rare footage of Roberto Rossellini to Texas-based indie icons Eagle Pennell and Andy Mann.

The free panel will be moderated by Linda Tadic, who is conducting an all-day workshop (9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.) at the MFAH on Digital Preservation for Video. To register and for more information, visit www.imappreserve.org. Linda Tadic is Executive Director of Audiovisual Archive Network (www.archivenetwork.org), an independent non-profit digital library and preservation service for historical sound and moving image collections.

Geraldine Aramanda, archivist for the Menil Foundation, has worked with the de Menils since 1968 in several roles relating to their art collections and archives. The Menil Archives contains many special collections and other acquired materials, such as films, audio and videotapes, letters and artwork.

Mary Magsamen is a video artist, curator and educator. She is the curator at the Aurora Picture Show and teaches Interdisciplinary Art at the University of Houston. The Aurora Picture Show, a non-profit micro-cinema, is also home to an extensive video library in addition to the Andy Mann Archive.

Mary M. Lampe, art historian, film programmer and art documentary filmmaker, is the executive director of Southwest Alternate Media Project and co-executive producer of The Territory, the Texas PBS broadcast short film showcase series. The SWAMP archive is comprised of films produced through its Independent Production Fund and the programs of artists work featured in 33 seasons of The Territory series.

Marian Luntz marks her twentieth year as Curator of Film and Video at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2010. During this time she has worked closely with noted photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank (b. 1924) and supervised the museums work in preservation and worldwide distribution of his filmography, which now numbers thirty titles. She is also responsible for programming the museums year-round films and serves as a co-producer of The Territory, the longest-running American PBS showcase of short films.

This panel is a co-presentation of Aurora Picture Show, the Menil Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston Cinema Arts Society and SWAMP, partnering with Independent Media Arts Preservation.

ABOUT CINEMA ARTS FESTIVAL HOUSTON
Founded with support by Aurora, Cinema Arts Festival Houston, November 10-14, 2010, is a groundbreaking and innovative film and multimedia arts festival celebrating the vitality and diversity of the arts in Houston. Aurora is proud to co-present two live cinema performances from filmmakers Sam Green and Brent Green as part of this year's festival, as well as participate in a media preservation panel.