Tribute to Erik Barnouw’s Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film (1974) honors his instrumental role in the founding of the School of the Arts Film Division and its Film and Media Studies Program as part of the School’s 60th Anniversary. Screening highlights include Barnouw discussing US elections for Paper Tiger TV (1992), Hiroshima/Nagasaki, August 1945 (1970), and Pare Lorentz’s Depression-era classic The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936). A panel of film scholars will reflect on Barnouw’s legacy and documentary today.

Co-sponsored by Film and Media Studies at Columbia University School of the Arts and the Faculty Seminars in "Sites of Cinema.”

7 PM: Panel

Joshua Glick, Associate Professor of Film & Electronic Arts at Bard College
Dee Dee Hallek, Founder, Paper Tiger TV, Professor Emerita UC-San Diego
Nico Baumbach, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Columbia University
Charles Musser, Professor of Film, Yale University
Jane Gaines, Professor of Film and Media Studies, Columbia University

8:15 PM: Screening

Erik Barnouw Looks at Television and Elections (Paper Tiger TV, 1992), 28 min.
The Plow That Broke the Plains (Pare Lorentz, US, 1936), 30 min.
Hiroshima/Nagasaki, August 1945 (1970), 1 min. clip