Ross Lipman

Ross Lipman
Known forfilmmaker and restorationist
Websitecorpusfluxus.org

Ross Lipman is an American restorationist, independent filmmaker, and essayist. He is best known for his 2015 documentary Notfilm, as well as his work with the Bruce Conner Family Trust and as Senior Film Restorationist at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Lipman was the 2008 recipient of Anthology Film Archives' Preservation Honors,[1] and is a three-time winner of the National Society of Film Critics' Heritage Award.[2]

Lipman's essays on film history, technology, and aesthetics have been published in Artforum, Sight and Sound, and in numerous academic books and journals. His films have been screened internationally and have been collected by museums and archives.

His 2015 feature-length documentary Notfilm about Samuel Beckett's Film was produced and distributed by Milestone Films and premiered at the BFI London Film Festival.[3] The documentary was prompted by the discovery of long-missing footage from the original production of Film, which Lipman discovered amid reels of outtakes in the apartment of Grove Press publisher and Film producer, Barney Rosset.[4]

  1. ^ James, David; Hyman, Adam (March 13, 2015). Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980. Indiana University Press. p. 321. ISBN 978-0861969098. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
  2. ^ "Past Awards". National Society of Film Critics. December 19, 2009. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
  3. ^ Stambler, Deborah (November 11, 2013). "NOTFILM, But Still Samuel Beckett". Huffpost: Arts & Culture. Huffington Post. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
  4. ^ McKinley, Will (December 2, 2013). "UPDATE: Rare Buster Keaton Footage Resurfaces – And You Can Help Bring It To Audiences". Cinematically Insane. Retrieved May 31, 2015.