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Penn Museum’s “Navajo Film Themselves” on June 11 |
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May 31, 2016, Volume 62, No. 36 |
In 1966, Annenberg School for Communication Professor Sol Worth collaborated with anthropologist John Adair and Penn graduate student Richard Chalfen on a project in Pine Springs, Arizona to create an experimental set of films made by Navajo people. Out of that research project came a series of seven Navajo-produced films, collectively known as “Navajo Film Themselves,” as well as a now classic book by Professors Worth and Adair, Through Navajo Eyes.
The 50th Anniversary of “Navajo Film Themselves,” a special film program at the Penn Museum on Saturday, June 11, from 5-7 p.m. in the Museum’s Rainey Auditorium, will take a fresh look at the groundbreaking project, its history and its legacy half a century later. The evening will feature the premiere of a 1966 introduction to the project, created by Richard Chalfen, featuring new audio and archival photographs as well as original footage of the Navajo filmmakers at work. The program also will also include a rare local screening of one of the original films, A Navajo Silversmith by John Nelson. Following the screenings there will be a Q & A period. For more information, visit: www.penn.museum/
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May 31, 2016, Volume 62, No. 36
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