Director, Moving Image Preservation & Presentation, U of Amsterdam
A-V archivist, U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Director, Moving Image Research Collections, Univ. of South Carolina
Associate Professor of Music, University of South Carolina School of Music
The 7th Orphan Film Symposium: Moving Pictures Around the World
April 7 - 10, 2010
President and founder, Prelinger Library and Archives
Rick Prelinger discusses the shift of home movies and personal testimonies from the margins to the center of attention: they are becoming more and more the privileged footage people seek when reconstructing history. Also, he raises the issue of archives needing to be more open.