Film Preservationist Ross Lipman in Person

July 9–11, 2026

Author of the recent publication The Archival Impermanence Project, acclaimed film restorationist and independent filmmaker Ross Lipman introduces several films he helped preserve: Wanda, The Times of Harvey Milk, and The Exiles.

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  • Rob Epstein: The Times of Harvey Milk, 1984

  • Barbara Loden: Wanda, 1970

  • Bruce Conner: Crossroads, © Conner Family Trust, San Francisco

  • Kent Mackenzie: The Exiles, 1961

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  • Selected
    Objects
  • Past
    Films
  • Past
    Events

Past Films

  • Wanda

    Barbara Loden
    United States, 1970

    35mm Archival Print

    Thursday, July 9 7 PM
    Introduced by Ross Lipman

    With her first and only feature film—a hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in—Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bringing to life a kind of character seldom seen on-screen.

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  • The Times of Harvey Milk

    Rob Epstein
    United States, 1984

    35mm Archival Print

    Friday, July 10 7 PM
    Introduced by Ross Lipman

    Rob Epstein’s film is a powerful record of the beloved San Francisco activist/politician Harvey Milk’s inspirational life and work, from his improbable, heroic rise to his horrific murder. “A truly great documentary” (B. Ruby Rich, The Current).

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  • Crossroads and The Exploding Digital Inevitable

    Saturday, July 11 4 PM
    Ross Lipman in Person

    The Exploding Digital Inevitable is a two-part documentary essay by Ross Lipman, who oversaw the restoration of Bruce Conner’s Crossroads in 2012. Shown with Crossroads as the centerpiece.

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  • The Exiles

    Kent Mackenzie
    United States, 1961

    35mm Archival Print

    Saturday, July 11 7 PM
    Introduced by Ross Lipman

    Kent Mackenzie’s semi-documentary film about a subculture of Arizona Indians living on Los Angeles’s Bunker Hill is “a wrenching document of cultural dislocation” (Thom Andersen).

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