Skip Elsheimer of the AV Geek Archive to speak at U of T on October 5th and 6th
Skip Elsheimer of the AV Geek Archive (Raleigh, NC) will be at Innis/CSI on the evening of the 5th and at UTM in the daytime on the 6th. Elsheimer is the man behind North Carolina’s AV Geeks archive, a resource comprising 36,000 reels of 16mm films rescued from dumpsters and estates. He is an integral part of Found Footage Fest and Home Movie Day and works to digitize and archive attic treasures from around the world. He digitized NASA's film archive and is doing ongoing work to digitize the legendary Coronet Instructional film catalog. He screens footage from the archive at venues around the world as Skip the AV Geek. The event will be of interest to those working in and around cinema studies, media studies, and television and media history.
October 5, 7-9PM, Innis College, "An Evening with the AV Geeks Archive": Skip Elsheimer of the AV Geeks Film Archive discusses the archive as a research space and a cultural resource, followed by a screening of some of the weirdest stuff that the Archive has acquired in the last year. Link to CSI event: https://www.cinema.utoronto.ca/events/evening-av-geeks-archive
October 6, 11AM-1PM, UTM IB 140, "Bad Boys and Business Letters," screening and discussion: Skip will screen and discuss two films from the archive that invite discussion about how instructional media in the 1960s were already framing and discussing what we might call "toxic masculinity" today.