Word: petric
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ethos--equal parts intellectual snobbery and earnest aesthetic evangelism--is personified by Vlada K. Petric, senior VES lecturer and curator of the archive. Petric, a white-haired man with watery blue eyes and a broad, stubborn face, works in a small office plastered with magazine clippings and film stills. He pontificates passionately in heavily accented English, and does not permit interruptions. Petric draws a distinction between "cinema," which he calls "a means of artistic expression," and "artsy films"--"Schindler's List" or "Remains of the Day," for example--which have "nothing to do with art." Then of course, there...
...Harvard Film Archives in the Carpenter Center remains an important promoter of independent film, says Vlada K. Petric, curator of Harvard Film Archives and senior lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies...
...Film Archives is to promote and show those films that are not created with the intention to entertain the audience and make money, but to reveal, in a truly artistic way, various aspects of human experience, the society in which we live, and the media which influences us," says Petric...
...Harvard Film Archives is currently screening 70 films from the "Film Makers' Cooperative," the largest distributor of independent cinema, says Petric. "Some of the films in this series are made by the filmmakers that work in the Film Department at Harvard University...