The popular program, which sells out quickly, is offered five times a year with five films in each series and a choice of an afternoon or evening session.
Like good literature, good movies present ideas and stimulate the intellectually curious to explore different viewpoints and theories – many times with a historical or social perspective and often in visually and artistically experimental ways. And just like a good book, a good film lends itself to study, discussion and further thought.
The Vero Beach Museum of Art offers such an experience with its Department of Education Film Studies program. It’s an ambitious public program, offered five times a year with five films in each series and a choice of an afternoon or evening session. And it’s also an extremely popular program that sells out quickly. The reason why has less to do with the films themselves and the series’ concomitant themes than with the two instructors who choose them. As one longtime student of film studies aptly described the pair, Warren Obluck and Diane Thelen, they are among the museum’s “treasures.”
Obluck is a former cultural attaché with the United States Information Agency. He spent 35 years with the service, stationed at the U.S. embassies in Caracas, Mexico City, Tokyo, Manila and Rome where he arranged educational exchanges for students through the Fulbright Program and cultural exchanges for musicians, artists and performers. His posts also allowed him to hobnob with film celebrities the likes of Alan Alda and Robert Redford – information that the modest, soft-spoken man only reluctantly mentions. He brings his considerable knowledge and experience to his research and lectures for the film studies program.
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