Abstract
This article reviews the 63rd Annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar at Colgate University in the United States, which ran in late June 2017.
Highlights
It was an unusual Flaherty in the six-decade plus turbulent history of the seminar: no films of Robert Flaherty’s oeuvre screened
In a very political intervention and reclamation, the seminar seemed to channel the spirit of Frances Flaherty more than Robert Flaherty as it unspooled a heterogeneity of makers, genres, forms, approaches, and vigorous discussions addressing indirectly and directly programmer Nuno Lisboa’s theme of “Future Remains.”
Inaugurated in 1955 in the height of the Cold War by Frances Flaherty, Robert’s widow and collaborator, to honor the memory of her deceased husband, The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar stirs up all kinds of overdetermined traumas, debates, overinvestments, histories, personalities, passions, repetition fetishes, hurt feelings, and devotional allegiances not all of which are either justified or historically accurate
Summary
It was an unusual Flaherty in the six-decade plus turbulent history of the seminar: no films of Robert Flaherty’s oeuvre screened.
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