The City as Character Vol. 3
This event took place on Jun 14, 2023
Free with RSVP!
Series -
Moving History
About
From 2020-2023, Minda Martin (filmmaker and educator at UW Bothell) has been teaching a course titled The City as Character in collaboration with archivists Anne Frantilla, Libby Hopfauf, and Jeanie Fisher from Seattle Municipal Archives (SMA) and Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS). Students from the class produce short videos which directly engages SMA and MIPoPS to conduct research with selected public hearings listed in the archives recorded over 20-50 years ago, and make connections with the contemporary moment, mixing past and present newspaper clippings, photos, audio, and motion pictures. The assignments emphasize active and experiential learning by asking students to edit real experiences and voices from their communities about an issue that they care about at this moment, such as rent-control, discrimination, environmental injustice, transportation, and more that shapes the character of their city.
Films in this program:
The City as Character
- Ash From Above by Luke Macomber, 4:20
- Seattle Waste Management by Alex Madsen, 3:30
- The I-90 Bridge by Andrey Fomin, 5:55
- Redlining by Drew Buren, 5:18
- LGBTQ Discrimination by Valerie Lo, 3:57
- The Kingdome by Aaron Chau, 4:05
- Women in Seattle Fire Department by Reilly Laux, 6:04
- Rent Control by Anisa Madey, 5:12
- Musicians in the Market by Evan Outwater, 4.19
- The AIDS epidemic in Seattle by Rex Correa, 4:44
- Homelessness in Seattle by RJ Chung, 4:21
- How Many More? The Story of Aaron Roberts by Dede Stewart, 7:37
- Police Accountability by Nate Sema, 6:14
- The International District by Aaron Chau, 4:51
- The International District and the Kingdome by Dylan Lim, 5:06
- Y2K vs COVID by Reilly Laux, 6:56
- Apocalypse When? Seattle’s Response to Y2K by Luke Macomber, 5:12
More Info:
MINDA MARTIN
Martin is a professor at UW Bothell’s School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences who teaches media studies and media production classes such as Personal Filmmaking, Gender in Film, The Essay Film, and The City as Character. She also makes personal documentary and narrative films.
“My work is intended to inspire the viewer to look beyond dominant histories and call for more multi-vocal approaches to history.“
SEATTLE MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES
The Municipal Archives collects, preserves, and makes accessible the records of city government. Records document how the city has grown, provide insight into decisions city officials and its employees have made, and offer a window into the intersection between city residents and their government. The archives holds textual records, audio recordings, photographs, maps and audiovisual materials available to all researchers.
Learn about the history of the City of Seattle and the holdings of the archives at seattle.gov/cityarchives
MOVING IMAGE PRESERVATION OF PUGET SOUND (MIPoPS)
Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS) is a non-profit formed in 2014 that enables archives, libraries, and museums, as well as arts, science, and heritage organizations, to convert their legacy video recordings to digital formats, allowing new access to our region’s cultural heritage. MIPoPS assists nonprofit organizations with videotape materials in their collections, including documentaries, oral histories, art and dance performances, public works, industrial and educational content, “orphaned” productions and other footage. They guide them through the entire preservation process from analog object to digital file, by helping with identification, appraisal, digitization, and care for the resulting digital files according to archival best practices. They support public access by providing an online platform for digitized content.
To view video content digitized at MIPoPS, please visit their Internet Archive collection.