LA Filmforum: Three Film Portraits by Jeffrey Skoller

Los Angeles Filmforum presents History from Below: The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors, Three Film Portraits. Jeffrey Skoller in person! Los Angeles premieres! ~ What are the experiences that shape the long lives of those we live among? Today, fascism, invasion, and the horrors of political violence have once again become part of our daily life. The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors is a series of film portraits of nonagenarians recounting their own experiences in history changing events that shaped the world and the rest of their own lives. Our communities are filled with the elderly who live quietly among us--often discarded, ignored and seen as valueless. Cloaked in an aura of frailty, we have little idea of the people they once were. Neither agents nor victims, these portraits are an attempt to give voice and memory to those who are still part of our communities and whose experiences in history altering events help enlarge and give personal dimension to our understanding of such past events. Full program and notes at: https://www.lafilmforum.org/ ~ Jeffrey Skoller is a writer and filmmaker. His films have been exhibited internationally. Screenings and exhibitions include: The Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Museum of the Moving Image, NY; JP Getty Museum, Whitney Museum, P.S. 1, Flaherty Film Seminar, NY; Arsenal Kino, Berlin; The Latin American Film Festival, Havana; National Film Theatre, London. His essays and articles on experimental film and video have appeared in numerous anthologies, artist catalogs and in journals including Film Quarterly; Discourse; Representations; Afterimage; Animation, World Records, Cinematograph, among others. He is the author of two books Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film (University of Minnesota Press) and POSTWAR: The Films of Daniel Eisenberg (Blackdog Press). Skoller is Professor Emeritus in the Film & Media Dept. at UC Berkeley.