Virtual Visiting Film/Video Artists Speakers Series Spring 2021

Appearances and Disappearances: In Memory of Jonathan Schwartz
https://binghamton.zoom.us/j/92205202577
Curator Irina Leimbacher in attendance
PROGRAM: For Them Ending (16mm, 3 min., 2005) / Animals Moving to the Sound
of Drums (16mm, 8 min., 2013) / Winter Beyond Winter (16mm, 11 min., 2016) / Den
of Tigers (16mm, 19 min., 2002) / A Leaf Is the Sea Is a Theater (16mm to digital, 17
min., 2017) / The Crack Up (16mm, 18 min., 2017) / New Year Sun (16mm, 3 min.,
2010) TRT 79 min.
"Taking as their subjects childhood, the transience of seasons, and our shared mortality,
the 16mm films of Jonathan Schwartz devote themselves to the ephemerality of
external worlds and a gestural responsiveness to internal states. This program of six
poetic films made over 15 years—combining cutout collage, lyrical camerawork, and
elliptical editing—merge wonder and disquiet, elation and sorrow, moving from
intimacies of fatherhood and love to contemplations of nature and culture." — Irina
Leimbacher
Jonathan Schwartz (1973-2018) was a prolific filmmaker whose work in 16mm
regularly screened at venues such as New York Film Festival's Views from the Avant-
Garde and Projections, TIFF's Wavelengths, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Ann
Arbor, Media City, Images Festival, among others. He received his MFA at
Massachusetts College of Art where he studied under Mark Lapore, Erika Beckman and
Saul Levine. Over the years he taught at the School of Museum of Fine Arts and
MassArt in Boston and at Bennington College in Vermont. From 2008 to 2018 he was
Associate Professor at Keene State College in New Hampshire. He lived in Brattleboro,
Vermont.
Irina Leimbacher is an associate professor of film studies at Keene State College and
former curator of a Flaherty Seminar. She is a regular contributor to Film Comment and
currently working on a book on testimony in film.
Co-sponsored by the Cinema Department and Harpur College Dean's Speakers Series
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