Save the Date!
Commencement Ceremony for the Department Film & Media Classes of 2020 & 2021
Monday, May 17, 2021 2pm PST
Zoom Webinar and YouTube Livestream
Featuring Keynote Speaker Rick Prelinger, UC Santa Cruz
Rick Prelinger, Chair of the Department of Film & Digital Media and the Kenneth R. Corday Family Presidential Chair in Writing for Television & Film at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is a major figure in the world of digital archives. In 1982, he founded Prelinger Archives, a collection of industrial, advertising, educational and amateur films that was acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002. Prelinger has partnered with the Internet Archive (of which he is a board member) to make 2,100 films available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. His archival feature Panorama Ephemera (2004) played in venues around the world. Prelinger has recently made several film programs that he categorizes as “historical interventions,” called Lost Landscapes of San Francisco (7 annual parts) and Lost Landscapes of Detroit (3 annual parts). With Megan Prelinger, he is the co-founder of Prelinger Library, an appropriation-friendly private research library open to the public in downtown San Francisco.