From: 40 Frames Directory (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Apr 18 2005 - 18:04:45 PDT
> Alain wrote:
>
>>...stating that it's very difficult to work with Evergreen and the
>>attitude is a basic indifference to the organizing efforts by people
>>outside the *walls* of the campus.
>
>>In many ways, these campuses seal out the communities which
>>surround them. And these are some of the last places which actually have
>>the resources (funding and facilities) to host filmmakers and film
>>programs
>
> I agree, with the above, and second the complaints from people in Oly -
> it's
> true - it hasn't been easy to arrange for shared visiting filmmakers with
> Evergreen and OFS - I'm a former student of the same film/video faculty I
> worked with over 10 years ago - maybe because of that relationship,
> there's
> been minimal success - but really, given just the past two years'
> opportunities, I think it sucks how few of those (and resources) have been
> shared between the college and the Film Society.
It boggles the mind that there exists such difficults in organizing
collaborative efforts between OFS and Evergreen. It's a failure on the
part of the faculty to make connections with the community, esp within
such a 'liberal' institution.
Reed College here in Portland has been open to collaborations with local
groups, but they still need to figure out how to clean their projectors.
Reed has 2 very nice Elmo CX-350 projectors, but from the likes of what is
seen on the screen you'd have thunk these things were dipped in mud before
each show.
Alain
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