Skip Elsheimer has filled up a ten-bedroom house in his hometown of Raleigh with his collection of 30,000 16mm films, which he screens online for viewers every weekday. His channel, AV Geeks, celebrates all the earnestness and weirdness of 20th-century educational and industrial media. In addition to his YouTube and Facebook presence, Skip travels the country to host live
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After her passing at the end of 2020, obituaries celebrated Joan Micklin Silver s pioneering directorial work on feature and made-for-television films like Hester Street (1975) starring Carol Kane, Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976) starring Shelley Duvall, and Crossing Delancey (1988) starring Amy Irving. In the Los Angeles Times Mark Olsen pointed out that with the recently renewed focus on female filmmakers in Hollywood, Silver s work has enjoyed revived interest in recent years. However, discussions of Silver s career routinely ignored some of the gems in her filmography: the highly original, progressive, and delightful educational films she made in New York City at the start of her film career in the early 1970s.