No Name Cinema on Instagram: "💥THIS WEEKEND💥 No Name Cinema has partnered with the new Vladem Contemporary museum in Santa Fe (@newmexicoartmuseum) and the historic Guild Cinema in Albuquerque (@guildcinema) for RICK PRELINGER to present three different programs over the course of three days: Dec 15-17 🎉 RICK PRELINGER is an archivist, filmmaker, writer and educator. He began collecting "ephemeral films" (films made for specific purposes at specific times, such as advertising, educational and industrial films; more recently called "useful cinema") in 1983. His collection of 60,000 films was acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002, and since that time Prelinger Archives has again grown to include some 30,000 home movies and 7,000 other film items. Beginning in 2000, he partnered with Internet Archive to make a subset of the Prelinger Collection (now over 8,700 films) available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. His archival feature Panorama Ephemera (2004) played in venues around the world, and his feature project No More Road Trips? received a Creative Capital grant in 2012. His 30 Lost Landscapes participatory urban history projects have played to many thousands of viewers in San Francisco, Detroit, Oakland, Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere. He is a board member of Internet Archive and frequently writes and speaks on the future of archives. With Megan Prelinger, he co-founded Prelinger Library, an experimental research library in downtown San Francisco, in 2004. It is still open to the public. He is currently Emerit Professor of Film & Digital Media at UC, Santa Cruz. More info at nonamecinema.org"
