Glimmerglass Film Days program 2024

GLIMMERGL ASS

FILM DAYS NOVEMBER 7- 11, 2024 • COOPER STOWN, N Y

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Glimmerglass Film Days 2024

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Schedule at a Glance

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Cooperstown Attractions, Map, and Film Days’ Venue Locations

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Welcome from Peggy Parsons, Film Days Artistic Director

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The Films

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Film Days Fine Art Raffle

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Food & Festivities

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Art Exhibition & Meet the Artists Café Breaks

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Guided Walks

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Filmmakers & Guests

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Film Days Reader

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Sponsors, Partners, Film Days Crew

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About Otsego 2000

GLIMMERGLASS FILM DAYS C O O P E R S TOW N , N E W Y O R K

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THURSDAY I NOVEMBER 7 5:30pm

OPENING FILM: THE NIGHT VISITORS National Baseball Hall of Fame, Grandstand Theater | page 11

7:30pm

IN PLAY: BORDERS & EDGES OPENING PARTY AND EXHIBITION The Smithy | pages 42, 44/45

9:00pm

INCIDENT AT LOCH NESS Cooperstown Coworks | page 12

FRIDAY I NOVEMBER 8 10:00am

Dahomey The Farmers’ Museum, Louis C. Jones Center | page 13

11:30am

LUNCH BETWEEN FILMS: INDIGENOUS FLAVORS The Farmers’ Museum, Louis C. Jones Center | page 42

12:30pm

FREE FILM: written on the landscape:

mysteries beyond chaco canyon The Farmers’ Museum, Louis C. Jones Center | page 14

1:45pm

TAKING VENICE The Farmers’ Museum, Louis C. Jones Center | page 15

3:30pm

BOUNDARIES: SHORTS PROGRAM The Farmers’ Museum, Louis C. Jones Center | page 16

5:30pm

ALL ILLUSIONS MUST BE BROKEN National Baseball Hall of Fame, Grandstand Theater | page 17

8:30pm

Thomas Edison Film Festival Templeton Hall | pages 18/19

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SATURDAY I NOVEMBER 9 8:30am

DELAWARE-OTSEGO AUDUBON SOCIETY BIRD WALK Fenimore Art Museum | page 46

10:00am

as the tide comes in Village Hall Ballroom | page 20

10:15am

speedy The Farmers’ Museum, Louis C. Jones Center | page 21

12:30pm

FREE FAMILY FILM : flow Village Hall Ballroom | page 22

12:30pm

gaucho gaucho The Farmers’ Museum, Louis C. Jones Center | page 23

2:15pm

OCCA GET THE KIDS OUT WALK Meet at the Village Hall | page 47

2:45pm

good one Village Hall Ballroom | page 24

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a boston (R)evolution The Farmers’ Museum, Louis C. Jones Center | page 25

4:15pm

MEET THE ARTISTS CAFÉ BREAK The Smithy | page 45

5:30pm

we start with the things we find National Baseball Hall of Fame, Grandstand Theater | page 26

7:00pm

FILM DAYS TRIVIA Cooperstown Coworks | page 42

7:15pm

A TASTE OF ARGENTINA Templeton Hall | page 43

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secret mall apartment Cooperstown Coworks | page 27

SUNDAY I NOVEMBER 10 10:00am

Rutkoff Brunch: robert frank centennial celebration Templeton Hall | page 28/29

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evil does not exist The Farmers’ Museum, Louis C. Jones Center | page 30

12:00pm

OTSEGO LAND TRUST GUIDED FOREST WALK Private Property in Fly Creek | page 47

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nets Village Hall Ballroom | page 31

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how to come alive with norman mailer The Farmers’ Museum, Louis C. Jones Center | page 32

2;30pm

wilfred buck Village Hall Ballroom | page 33

3:00pm

OTSEGO 2000 HISTORIC PRESERVATION WALKING TOUR Meet at Village Hall | page 47

4:15pm

MEET THE ARTISTS CAFÉ BREAK The Smithy | page 45

5:30pm

perfect days National Baseball Hall of Fame, Grandstand Theater | page 34

7:45pm

ricardo and painting Templeton Hall | page 35

MONDAY I NOVEMBER 11 10:00am

a new kind of wilderness The Farmers’ Museum, Louis C. Jones Center | page 36

11;30 am

LUNCH BETWEEN FILMS: ALEX’S WORLD PICNIC The Farmers’ Museum, Louis C. Jones Center | page 43

12:00pm

the day iceland stood still The Farmers’ Museum, Louis C. Jones Center | page 37

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farming while black The Farmers’ Museum, Louis C. Jones Center | page 38

3:15pm

SHORTS+CAKE Village Hall Ballroom | page 39

5:45pm

CLOSING FILM: checkpoint zoo National Baseball Hall of Fame, Grandstand Theater | page 40

7:30pm

THAT’S A WRAP! CLOSING PARTY The Smithy | page 43 5

TH U I NOV 7

FR I I NOV 8

S AT I N O V 9 [AUDUBON BIRD WALK Fenimore Art Museum, 8:30am ]

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AS THE TIDE COMES IN 10:00–11:45

DAHOMEY 10–11:45

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12:00 12:30

Indigenous Flavors Lunch 11:30–12:30

WRITTEN ON THE LANDSCAPE 12:30–1:30

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★ GAUCHO GAUCHO 12:30–2:30

FLOW 12:30–2:00

TAKING VENICE 1:45–3:15

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SPEEDY 10:15–12:00

OCCA Kid’s Walk Village Hall 2:15–3:15

3:00 3:30 BOUNDARIES: SHORTS 3:30–4:45

4:00 4:30

GOOD ONE 2:45–4:15

A BOSTON (R)EVOLUTION 2:45–4:45

★ Meet the Artists Café Break 4:15–5:15

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THE NIGHT VISITORS 5:30–7:30

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Opening Party & Exhibition 7:30–9:00

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WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND 5:30–7:30

ALL ILLUSIONS MUST BE BROKEN 5:30–7:30

Opening film:

INCIDENT AT LOCH NESS 9:00–10:45

SELECTIONS FROM TEFF 8:30–10:00

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Film Days Trivia 7:00–8:45

A Taste of Argentina 7:15–9:00

SECRET MALL APARTMENT 9:00–10:30

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With Guest Speaker

Baseball Hall of Fame 25 Main Street

The Smithy 55 Pioneer Street

Cooperstown Coworks 6 Doubleday Court

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MON I NOV 11

9:30 10:00 ROBERT FRANK CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 10:00–11:45

A NEW KIND OF WILDERNESS 10:00–11:30

OTSEGO LAND TRUST GUIDED FORESTWALK Fly Creek 12:00–2:00

EVIL DOES NOT EXIST 12:00–1:45

HOW TO COME ALIVE WITH NORMAN MAILER 2:15–4:00

NETS 12:30–1:45

THE DAY ICELAND STOOD STILL 12:00–1:15

10:30 11:00 Lunch: Alex’s World Picnic 11:30–12:30

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FARMING WHILE BLACK 1:30–3:00 WILFRED BUCK 2:30–4:15

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OTSEGO 2000 HISTORY WALK Village Hall 3:00–4:30

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SHORTS+CAKE 3:15–5:15

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Meet the Artists Café Break 4:15–5:15

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5:30 PERFECT DAYS 5:30–7:30

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CHECKPOINT ZOO 5:45–7:30

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7:30 Wrap Party 7:30–9:00

RICARDO AND PAINTING 7:45–9:45

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The Farmers’ Museum 5775 State Hwy 80

Templeton Hall 63 Pioneer Street

Village Hall 22 Main Street

Outdoor Walks Various Locations 7

FILM DAYS VENUES & COOPERSTOWN ATTRACTIONS 8

VENUES 1 The Farmers’ Museum Louis C. Jones Center 5775 State Hwy 80 2 Village Hall 22 Main Street 3 Baseball Hall of Fame Grandstand Theater 25 Main Street 4 The Smithy 55 Pioneer Street 5 Templeton Hall 63 Pioneer Street 6 Cooperstown Coworks 6 Doubleday Court

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The Railroad Inn Bluebird Haus Cooperstown Distillery Spurbeck’s Grocery Mohican Flowers The Family Tree Gallery L J’s Sassy Boutique Mel’s at 22 Schneider’s Bakery Norbu Restaurant Rudy’s Wine & Liquor Willis Monie Books The Local Bird Cooper Country Crafts

21 Cooperstown Farmers’ Market /Otsego 2000 22 Doubleday Café 23 Silver Fox Gift Shop 24 Ellsworth & Sill 25 Cooley’s Tavern 26 Golden Swan Imports 27 Rigby Handcraft 28 Cooperstown Beverage Exchange / Cooperstown Escape Rooms 29 Cooperstown Art Association / Village Library 30 J. Gorman Fine Jewelry 31 Kate’s Upstate 32 Toscana Restaurant 33 Stagecoach Coffee 34 Charlie & Cooper 35 Danny’s Market 36 Nicoletta’s Restaurant 37 Moldy Crow Pottery at the Underground Barber Shop 38 All Star Arcade 39 Sal’s Pizzeria 40 Tin Bin Alley 41 Bridgette & Main 42 Cooperstown Diner 43 Inn at Cooperstown 44 White House Inn 45 Landmark Inn 46 New York Pizzeria

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Welcome to Glimmerglass Film Days Peggy Parsons FILM DAYS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

There are many words in English for “Boundaries” and the reason for that is obvious—boundaries define our lives. We need to know where and what our limits are, and we need to be aware of borders that sometimes shift. Boundaries, in short, entail rules for conduct—if we step outside our boundaries, we can expect strong reactions. In Film Days this year, some of the boundaries represented are tangible and contained, as in the film We Start with the Things We Find. Others make direct reference to U.S. boundaries, as in films by Mexican and Canadian filmmakers that take place in those countries. There are films about artists, as in Ricardo and Painting, a portrait of a painter who moves from a country where his daily movements were suppressed to a new home in Europe where he feels the freedom of no boundaries at all, except perhaps those that mark the limits of his homeplace, where he enjoys the freedom of creating every day. There’s the story of the 1964 Venice Biennale, where the boundaries for so-called high art shifted from east to west; a moving film about the heroic efforts to rescue zoo animals behind enemy lines; and a special brunch discussion devoted to Robert Frank, someone who did more to shift the boundaries of photography than any other contemporary artist.

So, the festival this year is broadly conceived on purpose—to touch on many topics and agendas, all of which possess different kinds of boundaries. Settings are all over the map—the workplace, the home, the safe haven, the open space, the odd place; people on the move, and people in stillness; and people who feel the need to simply hide out.

Film Days is excited once again to welcome you back—to join us within the boundaries of beautiful Cooperstown where, for a few days each year, we indulge in thinking about film as our favorite art form.

Parsons is film curator emerita of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and an alumna of the Cooperstown Graduate Program. She, technical director/ programmer Xander Moffat, an independent film producer; and programmer Joey Katz, director of special programming at Boston Jewish Film Festival; curated this year’s film selections.

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OPENING FILM

THE Night Visitors Thursday I November 7 I 5:30pm National Baseball Hall of Fame Grandstand Theater Michael Gitlin I 2023 I USA I 72 minutes Filmmaker Michael Gitlin’s fascination with moths started with the 200 or so species that gathered around the lights in his backyard. Gitlin uses his camera to overcome the focal limitations of the naked eye and examine these nocturnal creatures at a mesmerizing level of detail. These images give us a sampling of the awe-inducing array of patterns, textures, and colors to be found within this vast corner of the animal kingdom. The film takes us on a series of discursions as Gitlin highlights the stories of others who have found themselves similarly transfixed: a contemporary scientist logging moth flight patterns hoping to uncover clues about climate change and habitat degradation; a mid-20th century Russian entomologist who spent World War II drawing moth specimens bound in Baltic amber; and a mid-19th century French artist, astronomer, and amateur entomologist who conducted moth breeding experiments with hopes of reviving the American silk industry (with wildly unintended consequences). Gitlin’s close study becomes a meditation on the ways proximity can both clarify and distort, and how obsession can become a means of reflection.

Post-screening Q&A discussion with director Michael Gitlin SPONSORED BY

DeNicola Design

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Incident at Loch Ness Thursday I November 7 I 9:00pm Cooperstown Coworks Zak Penn I 2004 I UK I 94 minutes Released in 2004, Incident at Loch Ness marked the debut of Zak Penn as both a director and producer. Penn was well known at the time as a screenwriter of action-adventure films (Behind Enemy Lines, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Last Action Hero, Elektra). Co-written with and featuring Werner Herzog (as himself), Incident at Loch Ness was filmed in tandem with a documentary (Herzog in Wonderland, an overview of Herzog’s work as he embarks on a new project) directed by John Bailey.

Tensions between the novice director/producer and Herzog soon develop as it becomes clear that Penn intends to steer the film onto the more familiar ground of his previous blockbuster genre films. For those more familiar with Werner Herzog from his iconic brutalist documentaries and films (Aguirre, The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo), Incident at Loch Ness presents the iconoclast director and revered pioneer of New German Cinema in a different, yet somehow consistent, light (Herzog once famously filmed himself cooking and eating his own shoe after losing a bet, later released as Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe). What finally emerges with Incident at Loch Ness is a film within a film within a film that veers far afield from Herzog’s original intention to explore society’s collective psychological need to create legendary, unknown, or extinct monsters.

Cash bar with a selection of whiskeys, complimentary bread and cheese, and salted oat cookies 12

S P O N S O R E D B Y blackstanleystudios

Dahomey Friday I November 8 I 10:00am The Farmers’ Museum I Louis C. Jones Center Mati Diop I 2024 I France / Benin / Senegal I 68 minutes French with English subtitles For centuries, the Kingdom of Dahomey (now Benin) was a center of power and influence in West Africa, rooted in the Kingdom’s active role in the transatlantic slave trade. As slavery was abolished across Europe through the 1800s, the Kingdom’s power began to fade. An 1892 invasion

by France led to the looting of the royal palace, during which thousands of royal treasures and other art works were taken. In 2021, after years of negotiations, an agreement was reached under which 26 of these stolen objects would be returned to home soil in Benin. French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop documents every step of this journey of repatriation.

Deeper questions around the exchange emerge at a gathering at Benin’s Université d’Abomey-Calavi. Here, students and teachers passionately debate the true legacy of these artifacts: how should these art treasures, stolen from ancestors, be received in a country which has reinvented itself in their absence. Dahomey is a poetic and immersive work of art that delves into the diverging perspectives on far-reaching issues surrounding appropriation, self-determination and restitution.

Post-screening discussion with scholar Mikayla Brown, Temple University This film and discussion, open to the public, also serve as the annual Film Days Professional Seminar for the SUNY Oneonta Cooperstown Graduate Program students and faculty.

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FREE FILM Written on the Landscape: Mysteries Beyond Chaco Canyon Friday I November 8 I 12:30pm The Farmers’ Museum I Louis C. Jones Center Anna Sofaer I 2024 I USA I 57 minutes Chaco Canyon’s high-desert landscape in the American Southwest (approximately 70,000 square miles known as the Four Corners) was home to a once flourishing ancient culture with connections to Mesoamerica. Today it’s revealed in occasional physical remnants. For one, traces of their monumental architecture possess such incredible beauty and simplicity that they bring to mind the most creative of contemporary design. The cultural flowering of this civilization began in the mid-800s and lasted more than 300 years. A unifying and expressive cosmology, especially their integration of solar and lunar cycles, was a sublime key feature of the Chacoan way of life. Archeologist Anna Sofaer has spent her life studying the Chacoan people. In the film, she serves as our guide, sharing her Solstice Project’s latest research using aerial imagery and LiDAR (lasers that measure distances and create threedimensional models). Astronomical alignments and their connections to the landscape in the canyon are reflected in the most unpredictable ways.

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SPONSORED BY

Patricia and Robert Hanft

taking Venice Friday I November 8 I 1:45pm The Farmers’ Museum I Louis C. Jones Center Amei Wallach I 2023 I USA I 98 minutes Paris was still the world’s artistic capital in 1963—but all that was about to change. Following the 1964 Venice Biennale, New York City took over as the Cultural Capital when American painter Robert Rauschenberg won the coveted grand prize at the Biennale. Everyone was stunned.

Was it maneuvering behind the scenes by the Americans, possibly the State Department in cahoots with influential New York dealers like Leo Castelli? Was it clever publicists working to boost American interests?

Europe was livid to think that Rauschenberg’s Combines—assemblages of ugly everyday objects often smeared with paint—were taking precedence over more traditional painters with better credentials than those of this oddball from Port Arthur, Texas. Taking Venice grapples with these issues. But what it really discovers, in beautifully nostalgic footage, is a Venice as yet unpolluted and uncorrupted by the multitudes of marauding tourists that plague the city today.

SPONSORED BY

Robert Nelson and Van Broughton Ramsey

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boundaries: shorts program Friday I November 8 I 3:30pm The Farmers’ Museum I Louis C. Jones Center

THE EVERLASTING PEA Su Rynard I 2024 I Canada I 17 minutes The Everlasting Pea moves between an anesthetized pea plant that dreams of a time when it thrived in the ruins of the Roman Colosseum, and the 19th century botanist Richard Deakin, who discovered over 420 species of plants, some quite rare, among the Colosseum ruins. The lowly pea plant and Deakin, who exposes an amazing botanical mystery, together are heroes of the story.

THERE WAS A CEDAR FOREST Arthur Čech I 2023 France / Morocco I 3 minutes

Fifteen-year-old Arthur Čech is a wildlife photographer whose main wish is to show the world the beauty of nature and encourage the longterm preservation of our planet. “I get very scared when I see that man can kill in a decade what nature has taken hundreds of years to grow. I can't stand by and do nothing. So, I made this film.”

TOXIC ART Jason Whalen I 2023 I USA I 16 minutes In southeastern Ohio, the heart and soul of Appalachia, acid mine drainage has been turning streams red with poisons and killing wildlife.

Technology and funds to bring these streams back to life never happened, that is, until now, when artist John Sabraw and some friends developed a breakthrough process to upcycle the toxins into paint pigments.

WINGS OF DUST Giorgio Ghiotto I 2022 I Peru I 30 minutes Wings of Dust follows a Quechua indigenous journalist, Vidal Merma, who is fighting the damage inflicted on the K’ana Nation of Peru by aggressive mineral mining supported by the government. Vidal risks his life daily to secure a future where his son can savor the simple joy of drinking clean water.

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All Illusions Must Be Broken Friday I November 8 I 5:30pm National Baseball Hall of Fame I Grandstand Theater Laura Dunn, Jef Sewell I 2024 I USA I 89 minutes All Illusions Must Be Broken is the finale of a trilogy that delves into the tension between nature and our evolving culture, following The Unforeseen, and Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry, which was an audience favorite at Film Days in 2018. Ernest Becker was an American cultural anthropologist and author of the 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Denial of Death. Becker’s premise, and one that has deep implications for the environment, was that human beings are motivated to create a meaningful world for themselves rooted in self-esteem—a kind of near-religious view that we must somehow rise above the fear of death and the unknown. Using Becker’s thought-provoking framework, the film examines the unintended consequences of depriving the environment of its natural character and properties. “All Illusions Must Be Broken is a cinematic interpretation of Becker’s ideas. … Part film essay, part verité study, the narrative interweaves Becker’s insights, contemporary interviews on the re-patterning power of screens, and scenes from a boyhood from birth to age 13.” —Laura Dunn and Jef Sewell Post-screening Q&A discussion with filmmaker Jef Sewell SPONSORED BY

Eva Davy

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Selections from the

thomas edison film festival Friday I November 8 I 8:30pm I Templeton Hall Presented by Jane Steuerwald, Executive Director, Thomas Edison Media Arts Consortium

A Life Like This James Hollenbaugh I 2023 I USA I 12 minute excerpt A documentary portrait, highlighting the lived experiences and creative work of four outsider artists working and living with disability in Central Pennsylvania. Artists with both mental and physical disabilities consistently face discrimination, inequity, and underexposure at both local and national levels. A Life Like This tells the stories of these artists who create as a means to communicate and express how art shapes and impacts their lives.

A Place for Us Leigh-Ann Esty and Ellie Gravitte I 2023 I USA I 6 minutes West Side Story is the tale of two rival male gangs who constantly fight to protect their territory. Their animosity is all consuming, to the point where the gang leaders fight to the death. Leonard Bernstein’s iconic score allows us to feel the joy, complication, and pain of what it means to love and lose. Six female cast members from Steven Spielberg's West Side Story play with a gender flip of the iconic prologue.

Between Earth and Sky Andrew Nadkarni I 2023 I USA I 25 minutes Renowned ecologist Nalini Nadkarni studies “what grows back” after a disturbance in the rainforest canopy. After surviving a life-threatening fall from a tree, she must turn her research question onto herself to explore the effects of disturbance and recovery throughout her own life.

This film was shortlisted in the 2024 Academy Awards Documentary Short Film category.

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Note of Defiance Brian Henderson I 2023 I USA I 15 minutes Filmed in early 2023, on the Ukrainian-Russian border, Note of Defiance explores two artists’ use of art as a means of cultural survival. In Kharkiv, Ukraine, attacks on civilian centers have forced cultural sites to close.

The Kharkiv State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre is one of the biggest cultural sites shuttered due to these attacks. These two featured performers provide concerts and lessons anywhere they can: from parking garages to bomb shelters.

Tracing Imperfection Chehade Boulos I 2023 I USA I 8 minutes As master conservator Naoko Fukumaru demonstrates “Kintsugi,” the Japanese art of repairing pottery using gold, she recalls how learning the practice has taught her to embrace her own imperfections as it mended her own life.

Post-screening discussion with Jane Steuerwald and filmmakers Andrew Nadkarni and Katie Schiller Complimentary popcorn and movie candy, cash bar

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As the Tide Comes In Saturday I November 9 I 10:00am Village Hall Ballroom Juan Palacios, Sofie Husum Johannesen I 2023 I Denmark I 88 minutes Danish with English subtitles As the Tide Comes In follows a handful of the 27 remaining residents of Mandø, an eight-square-kilometer island off the southern coast of Denmark. The island is cut off from the mainland at high tide and has a history of violent storms which have brought periods of destruction over the years. Unpredictable weather and other climate-related changes have made calling this place home an increasingly difficult task. The film’s co-director, visual anthropologist Sofie Husum Johannesen, spent time with the island’s community before any filming began. This unique approach shows in the intimacy, naturalness, and generosity with which the subjects are depicted. We meet a birdwatcher concerned with dwindling species, a centenarian with self-diagnosed “full moon sickness,” and an eighth-generation farmer aspiring to participate in a reality TV dating series. Director Juan Palacios employs stunning cinematography and immersive sound design to present a breathtaking portrait of a locale that might be hard to get to but seems even harder to leave.

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speedy Saturday I November 9 I 10:15am The Farmers’ Museum I Louis C. Jones Center Ted Wilde I 1928 I USA I 85 minutes By the time Harold Lloyd made Speedy in 1928, he had already appeared in nearly 200 short comic hits. But he had never used Manhattan as a location—surprising, since the city is such a rich source of iconic neighborhoods, and millions of free extras. But it proved impractical to do all the shooting in real New York places, so in the end a few sundry shots are LA doubling for NYC, with cast and crew shuttled back and forth cross-country by train. For those who know the history of both cities, it’s fun to spot the different details—like streetlights. Lloyd himself, of course, is at his clownish best. He’s helped by figures like Babe Ruth (a great cab ride sequence) and a cameo from Lou Gehrig.

Best of all, we have a chance to welcome back musicians Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton with their wonderful live musical score.

With live musical score performed by Joanna Seaton and Donald Sosin Introduction by Bill Francis, writer/researcher, National Baseball Hall of Fame and author of several articles on Hall of Famers in film

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FREE FAMILY FILM

flow Saturday I November 9 I 12:30pm Village Hall Ballroom Gints Zilbalodis I 2024 I Latvia / France / Belgium I 84 minutes Latvia’s entry for Best International Feature Film for the upcoming 97th Academy Awards, this dialogue-less animated feature is a bold and emotionally captivating story with a deceptively simple narrative. Called “the most groundbreaking animated film about nature since Bambi” (IndieWire), Flow follows a cat after his home is devastated by a great flood in a world devoid of humans. He soon finds refuge on a boat populated by various species of animals and will have to team up with them despite their differences. “With its wordlessness, this is a film that could play in any country of the world, its capacity to reach literally everyone limitless, and yet it is radical while being as accessible as any animated film ever could be. By any standard, Flow should be a triumph of commerce as well as art.” –Indie Wire Winner of the Annecy Festival of Animation 2024 Jury Prize.

Complimentary popcorn, apple cider, and hot cocoa

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SPONSORED BY

Springbrook

NYS PREMIERE

Gaucho Gaucho Saturday I November 9 I 12:30pm The Farmers’ Museum I Louis C. Jones Center Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw I 2024 I USA /Argentina I 84 minutes Spanish with English subtitles Acclaimed filmmakers Gregory Kershaw and Michael Dweck return with a striking follow-up to their film The Truffle Hunters (GFD ’21).

Their focus is now on the vast mountains of Argentina, expressed in stunning black-and-white photography and with a soaring soundtrack.

The film takes us into a community of Gauchos, cowboys and cowgirls in Northern Argentina living beyond the boundaries of the modern world. Early in their research, Dweck and Kershaw heard the phrase “Gaucho Gaucho,” learning that it meant someone who was true to, and living by Gaucho traditions and code of honor. As older generations dispense their wisdom, a new generation continues the fight for their families’ legacy in a modern world. Gaucho Gaucho merges the authenticity and immediacy of observational verité filmmaking with a deliberate and artful technique. The film celebrates the beauty and passion of extraordinary humans on a grand cinematic scale and shares a unique vision of what a fully realized human life can be.

SPONSORED BY

The Blue Mingo Grill

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Good One Saturday I November 9 I 2:45pm Village Hall Ballroom India Donaldson I 2023 I USA I 90 minutes Seventeen-year-old high school senior Sam has agreed to join her father Chris and his long-time buddy Matt on a camping trip in the Catskills.

Sam at first seems to enjoy the intergenerational bonding experience with the two divorced dads, yet the men’s own festering resentments and mid-life crises begin to change the emotional tone of the trip—until something happens that alters Sam’s perception of these two men and her place in their orbit. Wise beyond her years, Sam attempts to mediate their dueling egos, but her frustration reaches a fever pitch when lines are crossed and her trust is betrayed. Filmed in 12 days in the heart of the Catskills, amidst the lush beauty of the forest, Good One asks questions about the dynamics of family, friendship, and what it means to engage in or avoid conflict.

Post-screening Q&A discussion with production designer Becca Brooks Morrin

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SPONSORED BY

Alison and Tim Lord

A Boston (R)Evolution Saturday I November 9 I 2:45pm The Farmers’ Museum I Louis C. Jones Center Daphne McWilliams I 2024 I USA I 86 minutes When Kim Janey, a Black woman who was bused as a child to hostile neighborhoods, is catapulted to Acting Mayor, she breaks a 200-year history of white men in the city’s top seat. Boston’s traditional old school politics are further challenged when the top candidates in the historic 2021 mayoral race are four non-white women. A Boston (R)evolution amplifies an underheard community in a city stuck in a tug of war between deeply progressive policies and entrenched segregation, the best and worst schools, and a jaw-dropping wage gap. The film traces Mel King’s 1983 mayoral run and Boston’s busing crisis of the 1970s, setting the stage for candidates who never envisioned themselves in decisionmaking positions; elections that will be increasingly decided by Americans inspired to vote for the first time; and resistance from those uncomfortable with anything that threatens the status quo. A Boston (R)evolution is a tight and fast-paced documentary that asks if America’s bedrock city can finally confront its racist past.

Post-screening Q&A discussion with filmmaker Daphne McWilliams

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We Start with The Things We Find Saturday I November 9 I 5:30pm National Baseball Hall of Fame I Grandstand Theater Thomas Piper I 2023 I USA I 83 minutes The familiar corrugated-steel shipping container has become an inadvertent symbol of our postmodern age. Everything from dishwashers to computers to guitars—almost any item that makes our lives more functional and tolerable—is delivered inside one of these big, dark, windowless spaces. So it is high time to salute LOT-EK, a visionary design studio founded in Naples, Italy and now based in New York City, which specializes in upcycling. LOT-EK has made it their mission to repurpose old and discarded shipping containers, transforming them into innovative architecture of all kinds, from homes to schools, libraries, stores, churches, or any type of building. With millions of obsolete containers now scattered around the world, this is a green and necessary wave of the future, one that tries to fix the mistakes of the past.

Post-screening discussion with director Thomas Piper, as well as Giuseppe Lignano and Ada Tolla, principals of LOT-EK

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Secret Mall Apartment Saturday I November 9 I 9:00pm Cooperstown Coworks Jeremy Workman I 2024 I USA I 91 minutes Providence Place Mall opened in 1999 to much fanfare. The project was an attempt to reverse years of economic decline in the Rhode Island capital’s downtown and led to a wave of corporate development projects looking to cash in on so-called “underutilized spaces.” Areas that had once offered a home to the community’s lower-income residents and creative class were rapidly transformed. Faced with a feeling of powerlessness, eight young Rhode Island artists challenge themselves to see who could live in the new mall the longest. Between dinner parties in the food court and movie marathons at the multiplex, the crew soon came across a forgotten “nowhere space” hidden deep within the mall. The group remakes this underutilized space, sneaking in furniture, tapping into the mall’s electricity, and filming along the way. They even construct a wall with more than two tons of smuggled cinderblock. Far more than just a wild prank, the secret apartment became a personal expression of defiance against gentrification, a boundary-pushing work of public/private art, a clubhouse, and a 750 square-foot “Eff you” to The Man. Director Jeremy Workman delivers a poignant exploration of artists who discovered their purpose within the most commercial and improbable of places.

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RUTKOff brunch: Robert Frank Centennial Celebration Sunday I November 10 I 10:00am I Templeton Hall

COURTESY OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON

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Join Film Days artistic director Peggy Parsons in a celebration of the seminal photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank. “One of the most important and influential filmmakers of the last half century” (Manohla Dargis), Frank gained worldwide attention in the 1950s with his book, The Americans, before turning to film in 1959. After enjoying a hearty brunch featuring diner classics catered by Mel's at 22, we will screen both films, followed by a lively interactive discussion.

PAPER ROUTE Robert Frank I 2002 I USA I 24 minutes Filmmaker Robert Frank joins his neighbor Robert MacMillan on a sub-zero, pre-dawn morning in the country to accompany him on his daily rounds delivering newspapers to the towns in the rural Nova Scotia district where Frank has for years had a second home (he spent most of his time in a New York City apartment). Chatting amiably in voiceover as his camera observes the landscape and his buddy MacMillan’s encounters with his customers, Frank conducts a rambling interview inspired by his own desire to better understand how people live their lives in this isolated part of the world.

PULL MY DAISY Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie, Jack Kerouac I 1959 I USA I 28 minutes Robert Frank’s photograph “Trolley—New Orleans” (1955) was cited by the New York Times in June of this year as one of the 25 photos that defined the modern age. While nearly everyone acknowledges Frank’s influence as a photographer, few know about his movies. Perhaps his most influential film is Pull My Daisy, his quirky 1959 portrait of his Beat friends, with a cast that included Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Larry Rivers, Alice Neel, Delphine Seyrig, David Amram, and Walter Gutman. Loosely based on Jack Kerouac’s play The Beat Generation, the film is an informal tale about a bishop and his mom who, out-ofthe-blue, visit a railroad worker named Milo in the same place where Ginsberg and the others are also staying. Today—65 years after its making —Pull My Daisy is recognized as one of the great works of American avant-garde cinema. This film was restored by The Museum of Modern Art with support from the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation.

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Evil Does Not Exist Sunday I November 10 I 12:00pm The Farmers’ Museum I Louis C. Jones Center Ryûsuke Hamaguchi I 2023 I Japan I 106 minutes Japanese with English subtitles Evil Does Not Exist is Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s follow-up to his Oscarwinning Drive My Car (2021). Set in the alpine mountain hamlet of Mizubiki, not far from Tokyo, Takumi and his daughter Hana lead a modest life gathering water, wood, and wild wasabi for a local restaurant.

The townsfolk learn of a plan to build a glamping site nearby, offering urbanites a comfortable “escape” to the snowy wilderness. When company representatives arrive seeking local guidance, Takumi becomes conflicted, realizing the project will have a pernicious impact on the community.

Initially conceived as a 30-minute short to be shown as a live performance accompaniment for musician Eiko Ishibashi, Hamaguchi was inspired to expand the project to feature length. Ishibashi’s score is a motivating presence, playing with and against the natural rhythms of local routines.

Despite the film’s pleasantly languid pace and understated sense of humor, a simmering tension builds steadily. A foreboding fable about humanity’s mysterious, mystical relationship with nature, as the film reaches its conclusion, both the locals and the representatives are forced to confront their choices and the haunting consequences they have.

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Allison and Keyes Hill-Edgar

Nets Sunday I November 10 I 12:30pm Village Hall Ballroom Fred Zinneman, Emilio Gómez Muriel, and Paul Strand I 1936 I Mexico 65 minutes I Spanish with English subtitles Early in his career, the Austrian-born future Oscar winner Fred Zinnemann codirected with Emilio Gómez Muriel the politically and emotionally searing Nets (Redes). In this vivid, documentary-like dramatization of the daily grind of Mexican workers struggling to make a living by fishing on the Gulf of Mexico (the cast itself mostly consists of real-life fishermen), one worker’s terrible loss instigates a political awakening among these laborers. Commissioned by a progressive Mexican government in the mid-1930s, Redes was cowritten and beautifully shot by the legendary photographer Paul Strand (Janus Films). Redes was restored by the Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Filmoteca de la UNAM in Mexico City.

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How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer Sunday I November 10 I 2:15pm The Farmers’ Museum I Louis C. Jones Center Jeff Zimbalist I 2023 I USA I 102 minutes A star in the history of American letters, Norman Mailer lived a life that was stranger than fiction. Jeff Zimbalist’s documentary does an extraordinary job of capturing the substance of this man who in many ways shaped cultural life in mid-twentieth century America with his experimental works, general outspokenness, and bold perspectives. From his modest Brooklyn beginnings to a near-mythical reputation by midcareer, this intimate portrait reveals a life as complex and contentious as his works. A pioneer of “New Journalism,” he pushed the boundaries of traditional reporting, rebelled against traditional styles, and wove fact with fiction. He produced many bestsellers and received two Pulitzers.

Known for sharp societal insights, his penchant for controversy spilled over into his roles as filmmaker, talk show provocateur, and political activist. Enriched with rarely seen interviews and abundant new footage, Zimbalist’s engaging biography captures the ironies, contradictions, and lasting power of this audacious literary titan.

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SPONSORED BY

Raymond Han and Paul Kellogg Foundation

Wilfred Buck Sunday I November 10 I 2:30pm Village Hall Ballroom Lisa Jackson I 2024 I Canada I 96 minutes Lisa Jackson’s portrait of Cree Elder Wilfred Buck moves between earth and sky, past and present, bringing to life ancient teachings of Indigenous astronomy and cosmology to tell a story that spans generations. Buck grew up on the Saskatchewan River, where generations of his family had made their living. In the 1960s, hydro-electric infrastructure was developed in the area to fuel ever-increasing energy demands, rendering the once thriving ecosystem suddenly barren. Families, including Buck’s, were pushed into the margins of communities where they were not welcomed. Family ties disintegrated and a connection to a culture was lost, ultimately sending Buck into years of turmoil and addiction. Seeking sobriety, Buck eventually found himself in the company of elders who introduced him to the ancient stories found in the stars. These stories woke him up to a deep sense of purpose. Buck has dedicated himself to passing on these stories and the traditions and ceremonies integral to the culture that sustained his ancestors. Adapted from his rollicking memoir, I Have Lived Four Lives, the film weaves together stories from his life, taking us on an inspiring journey to the space beyond, and to the spaces between us all.

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Perfect Days Sunday I November 10 I 5:30pm National Baseball Hall of Fame I Grandstand Theater Wim Wenders I 2023 I Japan I 124 minutes Japanese with English subtitles Hirayama (a Cannes Award-winning performance by Koji Yakusho) feels content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, reads books, and takes photos. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world in this revelatory film from auteur Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire; Paris, Texas). In this striking and contemplative ode to his idol Yasujiro Ozu, Wenders crafts a film of immense warmth, kindness, and care that will make you appreciate all of the small, wondrous things that the world has to offer. Perfect Days “should be the most soulcrushingly bleak film ever made—a Groundhog Day grind with added despair and urinal cakes. But Wim Wenders’s Zen meditation on beauty, fulfilment, and simplicity is quite the opposite: it’s an achingly lovely and unexpectedly life-affirming picture.” – The Guardian

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S. Tier French

Ricardo and Painting Sunday I November 10 I 7:45pm Templeton Hall Barbet Schroeder I 2023 I France I 106 minutes French with English subtitles Ricardo Cavallo is an artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina, who now lives and works in Finistère, France. Cavallo takes full advantage of his adopted region’s naturally rugged beauty and spends much of his time painting in the secluded cliffs of Pointe du Raz near his home. In the film, he engages us in his everyday life as a teacher of art and the history of French painting, working on his own canvases plein air, preparing simple meals with local produce, and passing on his knowledge of art to the young people of his village. Though self-effacing about discussing his own life, he clearly adores having the camera focused on his picturesque region and likes having the company of his old friend, the film’s Iranianborn Swiss-French director Barbet Schroeder.

Cheese and charcuterie selection included; cash bar

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A New Kind of Wilderness Monday I November 11 I 10:00am The Farmers’ Museum I Louis C. Jones Center Silje Evensmo Jacobsen I 2024 I Norway I 84 minutes Norwegian with English subtitles On a small farm in the Norwegian forest, the Payne family seeks a wild and free existence. They practice home-schooling, live off the land and strive for a closely-knit family dynamic in harmony with nature.

However, when tragedy unexpectedly strikes the family, it upends their idyllic world and forces them to forge a new path into modern society.

Intimate and deeply personal, this is a story that delves into life choices, one’s responsibility to the planet and family, and how to navigate life after a significant loss. The film won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance earlier this year.

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SPONSORED BY

Otsego County Conservation Association

The Day Iceland Stood Still Monday I November 11 I 12:00pm The Farmers’ Museum I Louis C. Jones Center Pamela Hogan I 2023 I Iceland / USA I 70 minutes Icelandic and English with English subtitles On an October morning in 1975, women in Iceland walked off their jobs and out of their homes. Fed up with the inequity between wages for women’s labor and men’s, these female employees, wives, and mothers stopped everything—their office jobs, their cooking, cleaning, childcare, really the works. And subsequently, the entire country came to a screeching halt. But a revolution had begun! Intriguing archival sequences alternate with new interviews, animation, and first-hand accounts in The Day Iceland Stood Still. A half-century later, movie director Pamela Hogan and producer Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir reconstructed the dramatic 12 hours that reimagined what was possible for Iceland—and, in fact, for the entire world. Relive the tense moments as these champions of equality (and reality) share what it was like to throw overboard a longstanding machine. “The overriding mood of the film is joy.”

– The Globe and Mail

SPONSORED BY

Emery C. Jr. / Nancy F. Herman Fund

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CLOSING FILM Farming While Black Monday I November 11 I 1:30pm The Farmers’ Museum I Louis C. Jones Center Mark Decena I 2023 I USA I 75 minutes In 1910, Black farmers owned 14 percent of all American farmland.

Racism, discrimination, and dispossession over the subsequent decades brought that number below two percent. Farming While Black examines the historical plight of Black farmers in the United States and the rising generation reclaiming their rightful ownership to land and reconnecting with their ancestral roots. The film chronicles Leah Penniman, co-founder of Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, NY. It was on this land just outside of Albany where Penniman developed and ultimately shared her mission to end racism in the food system and reclaim her ancestral connection to land. Influenced and inspired by Karen Washington, a pioneer in urban community gardens in New York City, and fellow farmer and organizer Blain Snipstal, Leah galvanizes around farming as the basis of revolutionary justice. These inspiring journeys of discovery and activism, shared with a disarming spirit of generosity and openness, move us to re-examine common assumptions around the agricultural systems we have inherited and their societal implications.

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Otsego Land Trust

shorts+cake Monday I November 11 I 3:15pm I Village Hall Ballroom

13 DRIVER’S LICENSES

Ryoya Terao I 2022 I Germany / USA I 27 minutes A small German town faces its unfortunate past when 13 drivers’ licenses, confiscated in 1938, are discovered. A teacher and students research the fates of the 13 Jewish license holders, with an unexpected twist a year later.

ANOMALY

Ryan Jenkins, Spencer Sherry I 2023 I USA I 15 minutes A renowned magician features a strange illusion in his final run of performances and a government agent who witnesses it becomes hellbent on uncovering its method. Filmed at Cohoes Music Hall by Otsego County natives Ryan Jenkins and Spencer Sherry.

SCARS ALONG THE MOHAWK D.C. Cummings I 2023 I USA I 18 minutes Canajoharie, NY was once the home of the Mohawks of the Iroquois Nation, although remnants of the tribe are almost gone. In 1891, BeechNut built a plant there, and soon the town was known for baby food and gum. The plant closed 118 years later and the town lost its identity again.

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN

Philip Rahn Hopper I 2024 I USA I 16 minutes Philip Hopper inherited seven metal boxes of Kodak color slides shot between 1955 and 1969. Their arrangement was meant to be chronological and well-organized, with a corresponding list. But the list is faulty and the images shifted, perhaps when put away after a family slideshow. Or perhaps they exist like memory, in a fluid changeable order.

UNDER THE HAT: THE COMPLICATED HISTORY OF THE PITH HELMET Olympia Stone I 2024 I USA I 21 minutes An exploration of the untold story of the sun helmet—an accessory which has become a weighted symbol of power.

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CLOSING FILM

Checkpoint Zoo Monday I November 11 I 5:45pm National Baseball Hall of Fame I Grandstand Theater Joshua Zeman I 2024 I USA / Ukraine I 103 minutes Ukrainian and Russian with English subtitles In the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, next to the boundary with Russia, lies Feldman Ecopark, once home to many species of animals, including lions, bears, tigers, and kangaroos. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2020, the zoo was trapped between the advancing Russian Army and the defending Ukrainian Army. Enter filmmaker Joshua Zeman who, perceiving the problem, began filming in the early days using his cellphone. The relentless shelling meant the animals needed to be evacuated. Checkpoint Zoo recounts the efforts of the brave team of zookeepers and volunteers as they work to save more than 1,000 animals despite unimaginable adversity.

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Five Star Subaru

FINE ART RAFFLE! Special thanks to May-Britt Joyce for the donation of her painting, Stone Bridge (14"x 11", acrylic on canvas, 2013), which is being raffled during Glimmerglass Film Days to support the festival. Tickets may be purchased during Film Days—$5/ticket; 3 for $10. Drawing will take place during our It’s a Wrap! Closing Party on Monday, November 11. Raffle ticket purchasers need not be present to win.

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FOOD & FESTIVITIES Opening Party and Exhibition Thursday I November 7 I 7:30pm I The Smithy Celebrate a new season of Film Days! Catered by chef Alex Webster, the Opening Party will feature Chicken Tikka Masala, Vegetarian Saag Paneer, Basmati Rice, Crispy Papadums, Vegetable Samosas, and for dessert, Pistachio Almond Rasmalai with saffron and cardamom. Mix and mingle with filmmakers and film lovers. Enjoy the Film Days companion art exhibit, In Play: Borders & Edges, with works by Richard Barlow, Amy Cannon, Mark Mastroianni, and Gail Peachin. Ticket includes buffet and one complimentary beverage. Cash bar. Advance purchase recommended.

Lunch Between Films: Indigenous Flavors Friday I November 8 I 11:30am I The Farmers’ Museum Enjoy the flavors of New Mexico before our Friday Freebie film, Written on the Landscape: Mysteries Beyond Chaco Canyon. Catered by the popular Mel’s at 22 chef Brian Wrubleski. Advanced purchase required.

Film Days Trivia Saturday I November 9 I 7:00pm I Cooperstown Coworks Raise a glass to our newest venue, Cooperstown Coworks! Gather your best trivia minds and test your skills as local trivia buff Jeff Katz hosts Film Days trivia. Winning team walks away with Film Days merch!

Trivia begins at 7:30pm. Cash bar; selection of crudités, crackers, dips and spreads, by donation.

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A Taste of Argentina Saturday I November 9 I 7:15pm I Templeton Hall To mark Glimmerglass Film Days’ first New York State premiere of a film —Gaucho Gaucho—our popular festival dinner buffet will feature the flavors of Argentina with catering provided by Mel’s at 22.

Ticket includes buffet. Cash bar. Advance purchase recommended.

Lunch Between Films: Alex's World Picnic Monday I November 11 I 11:30am I The Farmers’ Museum Enjoy a warming bowl of Alex Webster’s delicious soup, Heidelberg Bakery roll, and a Middlefield Orchard apple for dessert between films.

Choose between Jalapeño Sherry Cream Chicken Corn Chowder and Honey Roasted Acorn Squash Coconut Curry Bisque. Advanced purchase required.

That’s a Wrap! Closing Party Monday I November 11 I 7:30pm I The Smithy Raise a glass to the wrap of another year of Glimmerglass Film Days, reflect on your favorite films of the festival with other filmgoers, and, in a nod to our closing film, enjoy delicious Ukrainian-inspired fare from Brian Wrubleski of Mel’s at 22, including Brian’s famous pierogis.

Ticket includes buffet and one complimentary beverage. Cash bar.

Advance purchase recommended.

OPENING AND CLOSING PARTY WINES DONATED BY RUDY’S WINE & LIQUOR

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in play: borders & edges November 7–11, 12:00–5:00pm November 12–16, by appointment: 315-941-9607 I The Smithy

The 2024 companion art exhibition, In Play: Borders & Edges, presents the work of four inventive and highly original established artists, Richard Barlow (Oneonta, NY), Amy Cannon (Fly Creek, NY), Mark Mastroianni (Cherry Valley, NY), and Gail Peachin (Hudson, NY/South Worcester, NY). Hailing from afar—NYC, New England, the UK/Minnesota and Chicago—each has chosen to live in our remarkable region. The show riffs on this year’s Film Days theme, Boundaries, and invites viewers to examine and ponder the visual relationships and contrasts the artists evoke, sometimes sharp, sometimes blurred, sometimes both. Curated by Sydney L. Waller, Film Days steering committee founding member and gallerist (the Art Garage).

RICHARD BARLOW’s process is to use chalk to draw directly on the wall, inspired by quests/journeys. He creates rich tableaux over many hours—that cannot long survive. Barlow studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Minnesota. He teaches at Hartwick College.

AMY CANNON shares a tight body of work: three intaglio stoneware canvases—drawings on clay—inspired by a larger work on display, made from torn art magazine paper. All share a “Nocturne” theme.

Cannon studied at the Parsons School of Design.

MARK MASTROIANNI, a painter, works intuitively with a wide range of materials—silver leaf, mysterious found objects. He studied at Ohio State University and was a long-time studio assistant for Malcolm Morley. Represented by a NYC gallery, he exhibits internationally.

GAIL PEACHIN presents her latest iteration of an ongoing body of work: reworked vintage photographs which she presents as multiples, each with a different abstract “reverse collage” to replace a cut-out figure. Peachin studied at The Art Institute of Chicago during a particularly heady era.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP, LEFT: Richard Barlow, Amy Cannon, Mark Mastroianni, Gail Peachin

MEET THE ARTISTS CAFÉ BREAKS November 9 & 10, 4:15–5:15pm

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GUIDED WALKS

Guided Walks are free and open to the public.

Bird Walk with the DelawareOtsego Audubon Society Saturday I November 9 I 8:30am I Fenimore Art Museum Join Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society trip leader Becky Gretton for a local bird walk. Please meet promptly at 8:30am outside the entrance to the Fenimore Art Museum. The walk will take participants through the Fenimore grounds, along the shores of Otsego Lake, and will loop around back to the starting point. Bring binoculars and dress for the weather conditions. This program is free and open to the public. Birdwatchers of all levels—novice to expert—are welcome to attend!

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OCCA Get the Kids Out Walk Saturday I November 9 I 2:15pm I Village Hall Nature lovers, join OCCA for an exciting urban expedition in Cooperstown after the family movie Flow! We’ll uncover hidden wonders in unexpected places around town. This family-friendly nature walk is perfect for all ages. Spend an hour discovering the local ecosystem and bond with your little ones. Meet at the Village Hall steps at 2:15. Bring your curiosity and sense of adventure. Nature’s ready to play hide and seek, even in the heart of Cooperstown. See you soon, fellow nature detectives!

Otsego Land Trust Guided Forest Walk Sunday I November 10 I 12:00 –2:00pm I Private Property in Fly Creek Walk Grade: Steep Join the Otsego Land Trust for a walk on privately owned land that has been protected forever through conservation and learn about Black Land Ownership with Christoper Banks Carr and Melissa Hunter Gurney.

This walk is in conjunction with the film Farming While Black, which the Land Trust is sponsoring. “We want our land to be a safe space for folks who would like to experience the great outdoors without the threat of harassment, intimidation, and overt racism.” – Chris and Melissa, Black Land Ownership Please register in advance: www.otsegolandtrust/events.

Otsego 2000 Historic Preservation Walking Tour Sunday I November 10 I 3:00pm I Meet at Village Hall, Cooperstown Meet on the steps of the Village Hall at 22 Main Street, Cooperstown for the guided walk, Business, Commercial, Residential? Boundaries and Land Use in Cooperstown, led by Dr. Cindy Falk, Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies at SUNY Oneonta and Professor of Material Culture at the University’s Cooperstown Graduate Program. Zoning laws have shaped cities throughout the country, and Cooperstown is no exception.

Zoning creates districts dedicated to certain land uses. Learn about how those districts and district boundaries have evolved over time and how zoning factors into development today.

This walk is the last in the 2024 Otsego 2000 Historic Preservation Walking Tour Series.

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FILMMAKERS & GUESTS

MIKAYLA BROWN (speaker, Dahomey) is a doctoral candidate in Media and Communication at Klein College, Temple University. Her research delves into how museums that are in possession of looted Benin Bronzes discursively address repatriation efforts, exploring the ways these institutions confront their colonial legacies and navigate ongoing identity crises amidst repatriation and restitution calls. Mikayla has presented her work at both national and international conferences, including in Canada and Australia. She served on the ethics review committee at Mutter Museum and her previous professional experience was in Marketing. Currently, Mikayla teaches critical media and identity studies at Temple University and Drexel University, engaging students with issues of culture, power, and representation. In addition, Mikayla is conducting research on Wikidata's ontology and Silicon Valley's weapons defense industry.

ELISABETH GAREIS (writer/producer, 13 Driver’s Licenses, part of the Shorts+Cake program) teaches courses in intercultural communication at Baruch College, CUNY. Her research focus is on intercultural friendship and its role in prejudice reduction. Her research also explores refugee integration and Jewish/non-Jewish relationships in Nazi-era and modern-day Germany. She is currently working on a second documentary focusing on Jewish life in 1930s Lichtenfels, the deportation of Jewish citizens to be “exterminated” in East Poland, and the life of refugees from that town in the United States. She received the Baruch College Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Service in 2018 and for Distinguished Teaching in 2021. She has authored the book Intercultural Friendship: A Qualitative Study, the textbook series A Novel Approach, and numerous journal articles.

MICHAEL GITLIN (director, The Night Visitors) makes work about some of the intricate conceptual and ideological systems out of which ways of knowing the world can be constructed.

His films have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Full Frame Documentary Festival, the London Film Festival, and the Whitney Biennial Exhibition. Gitlin’s experimental documentary, The Night Visitors, premiered at the

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2023 New York Film Festival. His 2015 feature documentary, That Which Is Possible, screened at The Museum of the Moving Image in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. His 16mm film, The Birdpeople, is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Gitlin was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006. Gitlin received an M.F.A. from Bard College. He teaches at Hunter College in New York City.

GIUSEPPE LIGNANO and ADA TOLLA (film subjects, We Start with the Things We Find) have master’s degrees in Architecture and Urban Design from the Università di Napoli, Italy.

After graduating they completed post-graduate studies at Columbia University as Visiting Scholars. They founded LOT-EK in Naples, Italy in 1993 and opened up LOT-EK’s New York studio in 1995. LOT-EK is an award-winning architectural design studio renowned in the architecture/ design/art world for its sustainable, innovative approach to construction, materials, and space through the upcycling of existing industrial objects and systems. Their work has been exhibited in major museums, including MoMA, the Whitney Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Guggenheim, and the MAXXI. Besides heading their professional practice, they also teach at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture and Planning.

DAPHNE McWILLIAMS (director, A Boston (R)Evolution) is an independent filmmaker, who began her career producing music videos for such artists as Queen Latifah, Blues Traveler, and Notorious B.I.G. In 1995, at Spike Lee’s request, she produced the Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning 4 Little Girls, about the murder of four Black girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham in 1963.

Working on the movie changed her life and her career path: documentary filmmaking became her passion. Daphne has since produced, among many other works, a pair of episodes for The Blues (Martin Scorsese, 2003), The Curious Case of Curt Flood (Spike Lee, 2011), Slavery by Another Name (Samuel D. Pollard, 2012), Maynard (Pollard, 2017), and Black Art: In the Absence of Light (Pollard, 2021).

Her directorial debut, In a Perfect World, garnered several festival awards and premiered on Showtime in 2016.

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BECCA BROOKS MORRIN (production designer, Good One) is a production designer based in New York City and Baltimore. Her career spans feature films, such as Sundance breakouts Good One and Strawberry Mansion, television shows like Netflix’s recent documentary American Conspiracy: the Octopus Murders, and music videos for artists Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten, Moses Sumney, Bonnie Prince Billy and MGMT. ANDREW NADKARNI (director, Between Earth & Sky, featured as part of Selections from the Thomas Edison Film Festival) is a documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. His directorial debut, Between Earth & Sky, was shortlisted for the 2024 Academy Awards. The film played more than 50 festival screenings, won Best Short at Big Sky and Hot Springs Documentary Film Festivals, and received nominations for two Critics Choice Awards and the Cinema Eye Honors. Andrew integrates community care and trauma-informed practices into his filmmaking process, exploring generational stories within diaspora communities. A 2023 BRIClab Artist in Residence, he also reads for grant organizations and serves as a festival juror and programmer. He was an associate producer on Bel Canto (Peacock), production supervisor on the NY Unit of Glass Onion (Netflix), and produced the narrative feature, Actual People (MUBI).

THOMAS PIPER (director, We Start with the Things We Find) is an award-winning filmmaker specialized in documenting contemporary artists and designers. He has directed, photographed and/or edited more than 25 films on painters, sculptors, photographers, architects, and writers. Film Days audiences will remember his film, Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf, which was featured here in 2018. Five Seasons won the 2018 Polly Krakora Award for Artistry in Film from the DC Environmental Film Festival and was in global theatrical release through the pandemic. His film, Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments, won Best Film for Television at the 2008 International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) in Montreal. His feature length documentary, Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the Highline, was broadcast on PBS affiliates around the country, and accepted for over 25 festivals around the world.

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KATIE SCHILLER (producer, Between Earth & Sky, featured as part of Selections from the Thomas Edison Film Festival) is a queer filmmaker based in Brooklyn.

She has developed, directed, and produced projects ranging from short films and branded content to television and feature-length productions. Katie received the John Cassavetes Award at the 2022 Film Independent Spirit Awards for her work on Shiva Baby (SXSW, TIFF 2020). Katie produced the narrative short film, Chaperone (Sundance 2022), co-produced the Netflix documentary series The Principles of Pleasure, and served as a segment producer on Lady Gaga’s The Power of Kindness for Facebook Watch.

Katie holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a Master of Social Work from Fordham University. Katie owns and operates It Doesn’t Suck Productions.

JOANNA SEATON and DONALD SOSIN (live performers, Speedy) specialize in silent film music for voice, percussion and keyboard.

Film Days audiences enjoyed their 2023 performance accompanying the screening of Safety Last!, another Harold Lloyd film.

Their scores for dozens of classic silents often include songs of the early 20th century and their own originals. They have appeared at Lincoln Center and MoMA, at festivals in Telluride, San Francisco, Seattle, Berlin, Moscow, Bangkok, Shanghai, and Jecheon (South Korea) and at dozens of venues across the U.S. A native New Yorker, Joanna began her career as a child model and Ivory Soap Baby. Called a “silvery soprano” by The New York Times, she has appeared in more than 80 shows, in New York and across the country, often playing leading roles in musicals. She founded and was artistic director for the Major’s Inn Elizabethan Dinner Theatre in Gilbertsville, New York. Joanna holds a Theatre Arts degree from Cornell University. Donald grew up in Rye, New York and Munich, and has been composing and performing for 50 years. He has had commissions from MoMA, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, the Odessa International Film Festival, and, with Joanna, the Chicago Symphony Chorus. Their film music can be heard on more than 60 DVDs on various labels and frequently on TCM. They live in rural Connecticut and have two children. Website: oldmoviemusic.com

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JEF SEWELL (director, All Illusions Must Be Broken) was born in Dallas, a fourth-generation Texan with family roots in the Texas Plains.

Before joining Two Birds Film, Jef co-founded the satirical publisher Despair, Inc. and Amplifier®, a fulfillment company serving artists and brands.

For his work on The Unforeseen (2007), he was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Graphics & Animation at the inaugural Cinema Eye Honors. In 2017, Jef received the SXSW Jury Prize for Visual Design for his contributions to Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry, which he co-directed with his wife, Laura Dunn, pictured.

JANE STEUERWALD (Selections from the Thomas Edison Film Festival) is the executive director of the Thomas Edison Media Arts Consortium-Thomas Edison Film Festival. She curates and presents film programs for colleges, universities, museums, cinemas, and arts venues across the country and abroad. Her films have been screened at MoMA; the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; Anthology Film Archives; and festivals across the US. Steuerwald was a professor and chair of the Media Arts Department, NJ City University, for many years, where she taught media production, history, and aesthetics. She has worked with film and video as an art medium since 1980, creating installations, documentaries, found footage works, experimental films, and single edition art books. In 2012, she was a Women’s History Month Honoree in New Jersey for empowering women through education.

OLYMPIA STONE (director, Under the Hat: The Complicated History of the Pith Helmet, part of the Shorts+Cake program) is an independent documentary filmmaker with a focus on art, artists, and collectors.

Based in Chapel Hill, NC, her company, Floating Stone Productions, creates films that explore the personal stories and creative processes of a wide range of artists and collectors, providing viewers with a deeper understanding of their work and inspirations.

Her films have been recognized at numerous festivals, winning awards and receiving critical acclaim. Several of her works have premiered at prestigious events and gone on to be broadcast on PBS. Olympia’s first project, which centered on her own family’s connection to the art world through her father, a New York gallerist, set the tone for her ongoing exploration of the impact of art on both creators and collectors.

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RYOYA TERAO (director, 13 Driver’s Licenses, part of the Shorts+Cake program) has co-produced and/or directed documentaries focusing on human interest subjects. For NHK and PBS, stories include Sled-Dog Dreams about a sled-dog team from an animal shelter in Durango, Colorado; Go Achilles! on disabled athletes from around the globe; Gun Runners on gunviolence through the eyes of former gang members in New York; and Klavierhaus on immigrant brothers who import and restore antique pianos. With respect to environmental concerns, he worked on a documentary about asbestos litigations and in the process, discovered a groundbreaking historic document that led to compensations for asbestos-related diseases in Japan. He also directed Bamboo Bicycle, a story about an innovative bike studio in Brooklyn that hand crafts bamboo bikes for eco-friendly New Yorkers and people in the developing world.

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GLIMMERGLASS FILM DAYS READER

THE LIVES OF MOTHS: A NATURAL HISTORY OF OUR PLANET’S MOTH LIFE Andrei Soukarov and Rachel Warren Chadd EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF AND GOD AGAINST ALL: A MEMOIR Werner Herzog THE WHOLE PICTURE: THE COLONIAL STORY OF THE ART IN OUR MUSEUMS AND WHY WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT Alice Procter CHACO CANYON: ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXPLORE THE LIVES OF AN ANCIENT SOCIETY Brian Fagan VENICE: CITY OF PICTURES Martin Gayford THE FOOD REVOLUTION: HOW YOUR DIET CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE AND OUR WORLD John Robbins THE DENIAL OF DEATH Ernest Becker KINTSUGI: FINDING STRENGTH IN IMPERFECTION Celine Santini STILL: THE SLOW HOME Natalie Walton THE WAR CAME TO US: LIFE AND DEATH IN UKRAINE Christopher Miller

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ART IS ART: COLLABORATING WITH NEURODIVERSE ARTISTS AT CREATIVITY EXPLORED Ann Kappes

NONCONFORMERS: A NEW HISTORY OF SELF-TAUGHT ARTISTS Lisa Slominski HAROLD LLOYD: MAGIC IN A PAIR OF HORN-RIMMED GLASSES Annette D’Agostino Lloyd SMALL MERCIES Dennis Lehane THE EXECUTIONER’S SONG Norman Mailer THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT Norman Mailer BLACK ELK SPEAKS John G. Neihardt HOW ICELAND CHANGED THE WORLD: THE BIG HISTORY OF A SMALL ISLAND Egill Bjarnason BLACK EARTH WISDOM: SOULFUL CONVERSATIONS WITH BLACK ENVIRONMENTALISTS Leah Penniman FARMING WHILE BLACK: SOUL FIRE FARM’S PRACTICAL GUIDE TO LIBERATION ON THE LAND Leah Penniman ROBERT FRANK: HOLD STILL, KEEP GOING Robert Frank Jim Havener, owner of the Green Toad Bookstore, created this list of titles for further reading based on the films featured this year at Film Days.

Browse the titles at the pop-up bookstore at Film Days, or at the Green Toad Bookstore at 198 Main Street in Oneonta.

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THANK YOU FOR THE OUTPOURING OF SUPPORT AND COLLABORATION GRANT S

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New York State Council on the Arts Otsego County Community Events Grant Program Scriven Foundation

Anonymous Cooperstown Natural Foods Jay Bosley and Hudi Podolsky Simon Carr-Ellison and Joan Desens Faith Gay and Francesca Zambello Shawn Gulati Jeff and Karen Katz The White House Inn

BENEFAC TORS Anonymous Doreen DeNicola DeNicola Design LLC Five Star Subaru Springbrook

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE Ashley-Connor Realty blackstanleystudios Blue Mingo Grill Eva Davy S. Tier French Raymond Han and Paul Kellogg Foundation Patricia and Robert Hanft The Emery C. Jr./Nancy Herman F. Herman Fund Allison and Keyes Hill-Edgar Alison and Tim Lord Robert Nelson and Van Broughton Ramsey Peter Regan and Aviva Schneider

Glimmerglass Film Days is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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GOL D Anonymous Lou Allstadt and Melinda Hardin Arkell Museum at Canajoharie Bank of Cooperstown Cooperstown Concerts Joseph and Luann Conlon The Daily Star The Freeman’s Journal/Hometown Oneonta/AllOtsego.com Green Toad Bookstore Glimmerglass Festival Glimmerglass Move Managers Hyde Bay Julie Huntsman, DVM Anne and Lang Keith Leatherstocking Federal Credit Union Serena Black Martin NYCM OCCA Otesaga Resort Hotel Otsego Land Trust Stack-Page Properties Stewart’s Shops Yusuf Tatli Visions Federal Credit Union WAMC Northeast Public Radio WMHT Public Media WSKG Martha Yager

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S I LV E R Roberta and Thomas Hohensee Amanda Mahoney Lynne and Kai Mebust Richard Norton Catherine and Donald Raddatz Sunflower Cafe Lucy Townsend Todd and Laura Wetzel

PA RTNERS Arkell Museum at Canajoharie Catskill Symphony Orchestra Cooperstown Art Association Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce Cooperstown Concerts Cooperstown Coworks Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society The Farmers’ Museum Fenimore Art Museum National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum OCCA Otsego Land Trust The Smithy SUNY Oneonta Cooperstown Graduate Program Susquehanna Chapter Adirondack Mountain Club Templeton Hall Village of Cooperstown

FILM DAYS STEER IN G C O M M I T T EE Margaret “Peggy” Parsons FOUNDER AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Xander Moffat TECHNICAL DIRECTOR AND PROGRAMMER

Joey Katz PROGRAMMER

Jennifer Armstrong JoAnn Gardner Jim LaCava Peg Odell Ellen Pope Van Broughton Ramsey Peter Rutkoff Erik Stengler Sydney L. Waller Madeleine Zenir

FILM DAYS INTERNS Micaela Wallace Cooperstown Graduate Program ’25 Joslyn Sperry Cooperstown Graduate Program ’26

S PE C IAL T H ANKS Cover photo: Matt Bechtold is a local self-employed carpenter, Leave No Trace advocate, and admirer of nature. When not building and renovating homes, he will often be deep in the forest with his camera, or at home working to make the land more pollinator and nature friendly. Matt’s photos can be found on Instagram: @matthew_bechtold_photography. Projectionist: Pedro Mermolia is a filmmaker and creative producer living in Brooklyn, NY. 57

BOARD OF DIRECTORS James Dalton, MD PR E SI DENT

Elinor Vincent VICE PRESIDENT

Julie Huntsman, DVM SECRETARY

Daniel Sullivan TREASURER 58

Kent Barwick Christine Corrigan Nicole Dillingham Elizabeth Horvath Susan J. Huxtable Connie Jastremski Danny Lapin Chad McEvoy Sage Mehta Wayne Mellor Erika Scott Karl Seeley Josh Simpson Sydney L . Waller Madeleine Zenir

STAFF Ellen Pope EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Jennifer Armstrong FINANCE & OPERATIONS MANAGER

Peg Odell PROGRAM & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER

Alex Webster COOPERSTOWN FARMERS’ MARKET MANAGER

OTSEGO 2000 IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATION FOUNDED IN 1981 TO ENSURE THE OTSEGO LAKE REGION REMAINS A MASTERPIECE OF NATURE

BY PROTECTING AND SUPPORTING ITS ENVIRONMENTAL, HISTORIC, AND AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES AS WELL AS ITS ECONOMIC WELL-BEING. The long-term economic vitality of the Otsego Lake region and the quality of life for its residents derive from our stewardship of these resources. Otsego 2000, as the first responder on environmental and sustainable development issues affecting the Otsego Lake region and beyond, seeks to protect these assets for the benefit of present and future generations. We advance our mission through informed advocacy, intelligent planning, public education, and sustainable economic development.

provides outdoor challenges and information on hiking, mountain biking, cycling, paddling, and cross-country skiing trails around the county; our Historic Preservation work assists homeowners with preservation tax credits, resources on preserving old houses, and offers educational walking tours and lectures; and Glimmerglass Film Days delivers a packed weekend of thought-provoking, exceptional independent films on critical environmental issues of the day.

In addition to advocating strongly for protection of our environment, Otsego 2000’s programs focus on building a vibrant sustainable rural community for residents and visitors. The year-round Cooperstown Farmers’ Market connects farmers and artisans from within a 50-mile radius directly to customers; Otsego Outdoors

Our work is made possible by the generous contributions of the Scriven Foundation, the New York State Council of the Arts, local businesses, and individuals who believe in and want to help us further our mission. To make a contribution, please visit www.otsego2000.org/donate.

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