The
Central New York Programmers' Group (CNYPG)
is a consortium of programmers, teachers, and media makers
dedicated to strengthening media arts events
in the central and western New York region.
“The
CNYPG tour is invaluable, for filmmakers as well as audiences
...would that it would serve as a template more often.”
- Jem Cohen, filmmaker & 2006 CNYPG tour guest
Filmmaker
Jem Cohen
offered
the following comment
on his experience as a CNYPG tour guest:
“The
CNYPG tour is invaluable, for filmmakers as well as audiences. We live in a
time of increasing corporate media consolidation, when conventional venues bring
fewer and fewer unconventional films to their audiences.
The CNYPG tour breaks the mold not only in regards to the kinds of films it
makes available, but by making it a two-way street. By bringing filmmakers directly
to audiences and territories that they might otherwise never encounter, the
focus shifts from passive entertainment to engaged exchange.
I did the tour well past the date of my film’s initial release in Europe,
and initially feared that I might be tired of talking about it. Instead, I found
that the varied geographies of New York State made for widely divergent audiences,
and I heard questions and comments that gave me fresh insight and excitement
about my own work. Furthermore, CNYPG gives filmmakers the kind of square deal
that isn’t so easily accessed these days, and thereby helps them continue
to make work. And it’s a well-organized program. Would that it would serve
as a template more often.” -Jem Cohen
Sara
Johnson, Coordinator
c/o Cornell Cinema, 104 Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca, NY, 14853
Phone: 607/255-3522 Fax: 607/255-9910
A program of Cornell Cinema and the Electronic Media and Film Program of New York State Council on the Arts.