Oct 5, 2023
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Fantasies of the Library
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Join us! Tuesday October 18th at the Cinematic Arts studio, we will be having a screening and talk with Rick Prelinger founder of the Prelinger Archive. Screening starts at 7 PM. Hope to see you there!
Dorothea Lange’s photographs of rural life, which she took for a U.S. government agency, are among the most famous images of Depression America: farmers, resettled ex-slaves, inhabitants of migrant camps, homesteaders and landscapes, they tell the story of a nation indomitably facing an uncertain future.
“As long as Congress keeps shrinking the public domain by copyright extensions, tons of stuff that used to be public no longer is.” -Rick Prelinger, historical archivist
The seventh installment of the annual "Lost Landscapes of San Francisco" was cheered on by a sold-out house at the historic Castro Theater. Guerrilla archivist Rick Prelinger was the host of the Seminar where "the audience is the soundtrack." He actively encouraged a crowd-sourced commentary to help narrate his archival clips... This year's film started with a ferry ride instead of the usual airplane flight. From there, the audience was treated to footage that contains a half-built Bay Bridge, a folk-soundtracked BART progress report, a MUNI marketing film, and footage from old China Town. Of particular note was new footage from the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937, in which the neighborhood of Polk Gulch transformed itself into an old western town, complete with saloons and people dressed in Native American costumes.
A couple of days ago I reblogged a link about the new Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles project by filmmaker Rick Prelinger. My familiarity with Mr Prelinger was limited, but I found myself interested enough in the concept of his new film to look further: there is also a series of annual Lost Landscapes of San Francisco films (2015 will mark the debut of volume ten) and also a Lost Landscapes of Detroit.
I was only able to discover one of the series that was available for free viewing and download in its original form (Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 7). However, Lost Landscapes of Detroit and Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 8 are available in an adapted format, where the film plays on a screen beside Mr Prelinger while he presides over an informal lecture and Q&A--not a bad way to see the films. More information here and here, including a link to download Mr Prelinger’s Panorama Ephemera (2004) feature film.
Reel Heritage at TIFF —Rick Prelinger, Founder of the Prelinger Archives and Associate Professor of Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz
“The contradiction between our desire to preserve, images and sounds forever, and their increasing impermanence never gets easier, the only way to understand this desire is to think of it as manifested in an act of faith, it’s hard to actually touch these ideas.”
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Rick Prelinger's latest film: No More Road Trips? {5 minute presentation at the Creative Capital Artist Retreat}
from the New York Film Festival Description of No More Road Trips?:
Artfully assembled from thousands of home movies and amateur films, No More Road Trips?, the latest film from archivist and filmmaker Rick Prelinger (Lost Landscapes of San Francisco; Lost Landscapes of Detroit), explores the highways and byways of a period in American history that may well be in our rearview mirror. Focusing on road culture and the idea of "peak travel," the film is a participatory experience that depends upon audiences to provide the soundtrack and narration. No More Road Trips? is a perpetual work in progress, a piece that cannot be completed until you, the audience, lends your voice to the images to this one of a kind interactive cinema experience.
the Prelinger Library and The Internet Archive (& way back machine) are places anyone can access this sort of raw material
(see video below (Bonobo Cirrus) for an amazing example of a music video made from Prelinger's movie archive)
for me the glory of this project is nested and layered. i love the fact that he is using the ephemera of everyday people (the home movies) to make a movie experience that is ultimately ephemeral, unique, and entirely dependent upon the audience at each showing. so it's recursively ephemeral. on top of that it creates a context in which a collective group must participate in the production of the art -- that experience is the most valuable, exciting thing for me. this truly collectively made and experienced art --- being a maker of the moment is a large part of the experience of the moment - for everyone involved. sigh. want.
Lost Landscapes of Detroit
Have an hour to spare today? Check out this archival film by Rick Prelinger. This is the same film presented at a recent exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, in its entirety. Per Prelinger:
...it's a collection of amazing and almost-all-lost footage that celebrates a vibrant, busy and productive Detroit from 1917 through the 1970s. The idea is to bring these images back to Detroiters for their contemplation and use as they rebuild their city for the future
Its really amazing to think that at one time, Detroit was as vibrant and metropolitan as Chicago or New York.
The Interval at Long Now, our new venue in San Francisco, opens next month (May 02014). One of its prominent features will be a special collection of books: a Manual for Civilization containing essential knowledge to help sustain or even rebuild civilization.
We've asked for recommendations for this list from some friends and associates of Long Now. So far we've received lists from Neal Stephenson, Kevin Kelly, Brian Eno, Violet Blue, Maria Popova, Rick and Megan Prelinger, and Stewart Brand. Other lists still to come include Danny Hillis, Neil Gaiman, and Mark Pauline. See all the posts about the Manual project here.
The Manual for Civilization will serve as a library for The Interval. Seen immediately upon entering, its shelves stretching floor to ceiling amongst the large scale mechanical prototypes of our 10,000-Year Clock. The Manual will present a compelling image for visitors to our space, and as they enjoy a cocktail, coffee or conversation in the space they can also peruse the books on our shelves.
To add your suggestions for the Manual for Civilization and vote on which nominated titles should find a place on The Interval’s shelves, make a donation to support the project. All donors can suggest and vote on books. And there are great benefits for Charter Donors including being amongst the first to set foot in The Interval in May.
Help give long-term thinkers a beautiful place to gather, full of amazing books, art by Brian Eno, and artifacts of our Clock of the Long Now project.
Photos by Alexander Rose or Catherine Borgeson or as noted