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    The Cambridge turn – an Academy Film Scholars Lecture

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    By Robin Menken on 03/12/2015 Other Arts

    AMPAS: The Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts And Sciences will highlight the work of groundbreaking documentarians in their upcoming Film Scholars Lecture.  Hear Academy Film Scholar Scott MacDonald talk about his book American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn which examines the influential work of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based documentary filmmakers like John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Timothy Asch, Ed Pincus, Alfred Guzzetti, Ross McElwee, Steve Ascher and Jeanne Jordan, and Robb Moss.

    Academy Film Scholar Scott MacDonald will give a presentation on his book American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn, examining a half-century of pioneering work by such influential documentary filmmakers as John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Timothy Asch, Ed Pincus, Alfred Guzzetti, Ross McElwee, Steve Ascher and Jeanne Jordan, and Robb Moss. While their films are as distinctive and individualistic as Marshall’s “The Hunters”, “Pincus’s Diaries”, Guzzetti’s “Family Portrait Sittings”, McElwee’s “Sherman’s March”, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s “Leviathan”, their innovative approaches were shaped at the MIT Film Section, Harvard’s Film Study Center and other Cambridge-area institutions where cinematic, personal and professional relationships have come together in a uniquely cosmopolitan nexus of documentary activity.

    CRITIC”S NOTE: J.P. Sniadecki’s multiyear project “The Iron Ministry” recently played at Melnitz Movies and had its LA premiere at AFI, 2014.

    Scott MacDonald teaches film history at Hamilton College in New York.  He is the author of numerous books on alternative and independent film, including the five-volume series A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers (1988, 1992, 1998, 2004, 2005), Avant-Garde Film: Motion Studies (1993), Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor (2008), Adventures of Perception: Cinema as Exploration (2009) and Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema (2014).  He was named an Academy Film Scholar in 2011.  His book American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn was published in 2013.

    This is the 12th in a series of lectures spotlighting recipients of the Academy Film Scholars grant.  Established in 1999, the Academy Film Scholars program is designed to stimulate and support the creation of new and significant works of film scholarship about aesthetic, cultural, educational, historical, theoretical or scientific aspects of theatrical motion pictures.  Tickets are free. For tickets go to http://sa1.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/EventSearch?presenter=AMPAS&event=ethnodoc or the Ampas website.
    THE CAMBRIDGE TURN – AN ACADEMY FILM SCHOLARS LECTURE
    AMERICAN ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM AND PERSONAL DOCUMENTARY: THE CAMBRIDGE TURN – AN ACADEMY FILM SCHOLARS LECTURE
    MAR 18
    7:30PM
    Linwood Dunn Theater
    Pickford Center, 1313 Vine Street
    Hollywood, CA 90028

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    Robin Menken

    Robin Menken Robin Menken lives in Los Angeles. She was the Artistic Director of the Second City Workshops, taught at UC Berkeley, USC, Barcelona\'s Ateneu and the Esalin Institute. She was Roberto Rossellini\'s assistant, and worked with Yevgeny Vevteshenku, Glauber Rocha and Eugene Ionesco. She sold numerous screenplays and wrote the OBIE winning The FTA SHow (touring with Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland and Ben Vereen.) She was a programming consultant and Special Events co-ordinator for numerous film festivals, including the SF, Rio, Havana and N.Y Film Festivals. Her first news outlet was the historic East Village Other.

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