Lost Landscapes of San Francisco
Description
Playing in the Festival Lounge this year is Rick Prelinger’s eclectic montage of lost and rarely seen film clips showing life, landscapes, and labor in a vanished San Francisco as captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen, and industrial filmmakers. The footage is carefully curated by Prelinger, a Bay Area guerrilla archivist who collects the uncollected and makes it accessible to many different entities, including this special presentation at the SFFILM Festival Lounge. Film Stills are courtesy of Prelinger Archives.
Biographies
Rick Prelinger is an archivist, filmmaker, writer, educator, and co-founder of the Prelinger Library. His collection of 60,000 films, begun in 1983, was acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002. Since that time Prelinger Archives has again grown to include some 30,000 home movies and 7,000 other film items. Among his features are Panorama Ephemera (2004) and No More Road Trips? (2013). His 30 Lost Landscapes participatory urban history projects have played to many thousands of viewers in San Francisco, Detroit, Oakland, Los Angeles, New York, and elsewhere. Headshot courtesy of Meg Prelinger.
