Search & Rescue
Search and Rescue is a quarterly public investigation designed to showcase discarded archives of over 7000 films de-acessioned from Educational institutions. Ranging from political propaganda to educational reels to scientific documents to the unclassifiable, this collection is full of surprises, accidental poetry, intentional mistakes, and random moments of englightenment. Search Rescue offes the greatest commodity in cinema today, the unexpected.
For more information about the Search & Rescue program, please click here.
To read the article "Archiving the Future" by Andy Spletzer, please click here.
To read about a recent presentation of Search & Rescue in Pittburgh, please click here.
Search & Rescue Summer 2008
JUNE 5, Thursday at 8pm
PRÊT-À-FILMER: A WEEK OF FASHION FILMS
SEARCH AND RESCUE: EPHEMERAL FASHIONS
Our ongoing exploration of 16mm cinematic detritus celebrates the secret life of clothes and those who love them. Clothes and cloth, when filmed independent of the body parts that normally give them meaning, are revealed as estranged, dreamlike, playful and elusive—making them potent symbols of fascination, desire, emotion and sensual pleasure.
