Slideshow
OBIT Filmmaker VANESSA GOULD with Subject/New York Times Archive Caretaker JEFF ROTH
Saturday, April 29,
7:00 show (Q&A) & 9:20 show (Intro)
Jeff Roth manages more than 100 years of Times archive materials known as the morgue. He has been retrieving and refiling news clippings and photographs there since 1993. A fair number of his twenty past employers have ended up as obituaries on the pages of The New York Times.
Vanessa Gould is a filmmaker and editor working in Brooklyn. In addition to OBIT., she recently produced and shot for Showtime's Emmy®-winning Years of Living Dangerously, a documentary series about climate change executive produced by James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Gould's previous film Between the Folds premiered on PBS’s Independent Lens in December 2009 and was re-broadcast the following season. In 2010, it received a Peabody Award. Between the Folds continues to screen at film festivals and art and science museums around the world. It has been translated into more than ten languages and broadcast in dozens of countries. She studied piano at the New England Conservatory, and art history, architecture and physics at Columbia University. She paints occasionally, and follows traditional music from around the world.