Ross Lipman
Ross Lipman is a filmmaker and archivist, whose many restorations include Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep, Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles, and Barbara Loden’s Wanda. He was a 2008 recipient of Anthology Film Archives' Preservation Honors, and is a three-time winner of the National Society of Film Critics' Heritage Award. His essays on film history, technology, and aesthetics have been published in Artforum, Sight and Sound, and numerous academic books and journals. Lipman's filmmaking works have screened internationally and been collected by museums and institutions including the Oberhausen Kurzfilm Archive, Budapest's Balazs Bela Studios, Munich's Sammlung Goetz, The Academy Film Archive, Anthology Film Archives, and Northeast Historic Film.Through his parallel disciplines lies a fascination with the temporality and transience of human endeavor. His most recent film restorations are Thom Andersen's Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer and (in collaboration with the Conner Family Trust), Crossroads. He is currently working with Milestone Films on a feature-length documentary on Samuel Beckett's Film, entitled Notfilm, set for international release in 2015.
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Filmography
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The Cropping of the Spectacle
In this live cinema essay, Ross Lipman investigates the birth of the Television Spectacle. Based loosely on the classic anarchist documentary POINT OF ORDER! (a film which at once deconstructed the hearings and re-invented documentary form), the performance integrates archival...Watch Movie
