University of Pittsburgh Annual Lecture by Ben Orgrodnik
1 & 2 December 2017 Annual Lecture by Ben Orgrodnik PART I: Film-as-Art: Excavating the Alliance of Art Museums and Experimental Filmmakers in the 1960s and 1970s PART II: The Rise of ‘Ruin Cinema’: Experimental Filmmaking in the US Rust Belt, 1970s-1980s This event was part of the series BIMI x LUX and University of Pittsburgh Annual Lecture With few exceptions, film and media studies scholarship continues to ignore or misrepresent the role of the art museum as a vital alternative site for exhibiting noncommercial film, instead perpetuating an essentialist stereotype that museums are hostile to film, and a corollary myth of the experimental filmmaker…