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Wednesday, Mar 5, 2025
7:00 PM (90 mins)
BAMPFA
Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes
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Les Blank Lecture
Groundbreaking archivist, filmmaker, educator, and curator Rick Prelinger’s long-standing commitment to the preservation and exhibition of moving-image materials—especially home movies, industrial and educational films, and other ephemeral movies—relates to Les Blank’s generous, curious, hopeful, and humane approach to filmmaking in interesting ways. Blank’s films are a lively record of traditional American cultures, while the Prelinger Archives (acquired by the Library of Congress) and his more recent collection open up perspectives on how a diverse array of people used film to record the world around them and themselves. Prelinger will present excerpts from his Lost Landscapes compilations and discuss his approach to archiving.
— Kate MacKay
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