Former SAIC Professor Skoller has been making, researching, and writing about film since the mid-1970s. His 2015 book Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant- Garde Film explored the relationship of subjective, experimental film practice to historical experience, engaging some of the most significant social and intellectual debates of the last three decades. NICARAGUA HERE-SAY / SEE-HEAR (50 min.) is a prescient film is made with a hand-cranked Bolex in Nicaragua, and THE UNIMAGINED LIVES OF OUR NEIGHBORS (pictured, 2019, USA, 27 min.), is a first-person remembrance of Joseph Fischer, one of the first US sailors on the ground in post-atomic Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Skoller in attendance.