Lost Leaders: Countdowns and the Metadata of Film (2011 – )

Matt Soar (Concordia University) with Jackie Gallant

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Spring 2017 Update

March 10, 2017
By: MattFiled under Admin, Work in Progress. Bookmark the permalink.

  As I write, it’s actually -20C in sunny Montréal, but let’s call it Spring anyway. sigh For better or worse, since last year’s Orphans, I’ve been chiefly focused on writing about leaders, rather than making with leaders: I have … Continue reading→

  • Take me to your leaders!

    I am always interested in collecting more leaders: the ordinary, the obscure, or downright peculiar. Any language, any format, any condition; with or without the 'actual' films attached. Just let me know! In most cases I can pay reasonable shipping costs, or collect (depending on location).
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    • The Beginnings and the Ends of Film (The Moving Image, Fall 2016)
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    • Talk: Orphans X (Culpeper VA 2016)
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    • Handweaving (short film) – back to the beginning
  • About

    This research-creation project is the work of Matt Soar, intermedia artist, filmmaker, and Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, in occasional collaboration with sound artist Jackie Gallant.

  • Credits

    I am indebted to Snowden Becker (UCLA) in particular, and: Library of Congress (George Willeman, Michael Hinton, Mike Mashon, Laurel Howard), Dan Streible (NYU), Margaret Compton (Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection), Craig Baldwin, Rick Prelinger (USC), Stephen Parr (Oddball).

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  • ©2011 Lost Leaders: Countdowns and the Metadata of Film. All rights reserved. From 2011 to 2014 Lost Leaders was indirectly supported by a research-creation grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. It’s currently running on a wing and prayer.