-- Announcing September -- & the return of Film-In-Residence

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August 16, 2022

TICKETS TO TRAVEL BACK IN TIME

100 YEARS

VIA SHENGJING PANORAMA

NOW AVAILABLE THRU SEPTEMBER 2022

 

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The Velaslavasay Panorama (Sara Velas & Ruby Carlson), in collaboration with professors Weiling Deng, PhD & Jonathan Banfill, PhD, will present a paper on Shengjing Panorama at the upcoming conference of the International Federation for Public History (IFPH) in Berlin. According to the IFPH, Public History is a field in the historical sciences made up of professionals who undertake historical work in a variety of public and private settings for different kinds of audiences worldwide.

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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (2019)
Saturdays August 27th through September 17th, 2022
Doors 3:30pm / Show at 4:00pm
Tickets: $10 General / $5 VPES Members
https://panoramaonview.org/events/film-residence-recorder-marion-stokes-project

Marion Stokes recorded American television 24 hours a day for 30 years from 1975 until her death in 2012. It started in 1979 with the Iranian Hostage Crisis at the dawn of the twenty-four hour news cycle, and ended on December 14, 2012 while the Sandy Hook massacre played on television as Marion passed away.

In between, Marion recorded on 70,000 VHS tapes, capturing revolutions, lies, wars, triumphs, catastrophes, bloopers, talk shows, and commercials that tell us who we were, and show how television shaped the world of today. Now her massive cache of tape recordings is being digitized for future generations and made available via the Internet Archive.

 
 
 
Marion Stokes was a civil rights demonstrator, activist, librarian, archivist, and producer/commentator on Input, a local Philadelphia panel discussion program that ran from 1968-1971. It was a groundbreaking series, featuring academics, community and religious leaders and artists from the Philadelphia area with a focus on social justice and progressive thinking.

On Saturday afternoons for one month, tour the garden and exhibits at the Velaslavasay Panorama, including the 360-degree painted panorama Shengjing Panorama, watch Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project, and see the temporary illustrated tableau Scenes of a Recording, inspired by the life and diligent work of Marion Stokes.

RECORDER: The Marion Stokes Project
Directed by Matt Wolf
Edited by Keiko Deguchi
Music by Owen Pallet
2019, 1h 27m, HD Color Video with Mixed Archival Formats

This event and exhibition are sponsored in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the Velaslavasay Panorama Enthusiast Society.

 

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