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Welcome to a special episode of the projection booth. I'm your host, Mike White. On this episode, I'm speaking with Alexander Fee. He is a programmer who works with the Japan Society, and he is talking to me about a program of films that they have going on right now called the Flash Forward series. Check it out at JapanSociety.org and enjoy the interview.

Alexander Fee, tell me a little bit about yourself and how you got into film programming.

So I went to University of Chicago. Over there, they still have film society, a student-run film society, doc films.

And I think that's kind of like where I first learned

how to program film. It's like basically one of the last kind of thresholds where, you know,

you're basically running a, like a film, a theatrical venue. I learned how to project 16-m-35-mell.

I, you know, made posters. I programmed series. My first one was like a body horror series.

I think that's kind of like where I began to kind of program and realize that programming was

a kind of avenue that you could go into. I only graduated about three years ago, 2018.

So after I graduated, I mostly did kind of projection gigs. I work at Facets Multimedia.

They had their own 35mm, 16 millimeter archive. So I helped working in their collections and kind of

start loaning those out as well as inspecting the prints. And I also worked at like the Art

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