Jacob Perlin, artistic and programming director of Metrograph, the inventive new independent movie theater in New York City, will provide a free, public talk, “Variations on a Form,” on Tuesday, March 6, at 7 p.m. in the Campus Theatre. He will provide information on how films gets produced, distributed, exhibited, preserved, promoted and written about for a major metropolitan audience.
Perlin is also the creative director at Cinema Conservancy, a company that provides production services to emerging filmmakers and preserves, sells and exhibits independent films; founder and director of The Film Desk, a specialty distributor of international cinema; and a founding board member of the Center for Moving Image Arts at Bard College. He is also a film producer, with projects that include Matías Piñeiro’s 2016 Hermia & Helena; and an actor, including a role in Alex Ross Perry’s latest, Golden Exits. From 2003-2011, Perlin was the associate film curator at BAMcinématek, and in 2014 he was a programmer-at-large for the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
Perlin’s talk is sponsored by Bucknell’s Tuesday Film/Media Series.