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Harvard Film Archive Curator and Senior Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies Vlada K. Petric will retire at the end of the semester after 23 years at the University...
...Petric, one of the founders of the Film Archive, said yesterday that, after 15 years there, his job was "physically impossible" and he needed a break from the 13-hour days he usually works at the Archive...
...here every day from 11 a.m. until midnight...I haven't had time to finish writing my books or take a vacation," Petric said...
...Petric, the Archive's first curator, said he had suggested to the VES Department that they split his position, which would allow him to maintain his role as curator while giving up his teaching responsibilities...
...Petric admitted that HFA caters to a limited clientele. But, he said proudly, "I prefer to have a film that will help someone understand art, with only five people [in the audience], than a full house showing "Remains of the Day." He bristled at the suggestion that HFA films are "weird." "That's not weird; that's avant-garde," he sniffed. Petric has no patience for philistines who scorn film studies. "They are stupid," he says flatly. "If someone is still taking this issue, I would say he's undeveloped uncultured, primitive...