From: Jeff Kreines (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Jan 04 2007 - 23:17:09 PST
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> From: William O'Farrell <email suppressed>
> Date: January 5, 2007 12:34:43 AM CST
> To: email suppressed
> Subject: Re: [AMIA-L] Helen Hill killed
> Reply-To: email suppressed
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> I am completely stunned by this senseless tragedy.
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> Helen found art in the tragedy of Katrina, and her presence at the
> Orphans Symposium in Columbia last year was a highlight of the
> conference. I had several conversations with her about cleaning and
> restoration techniques (which she had already mastered in her
> bathtub filmmaking/processing techniques) and came away convinced
> that she was breaking new ground for archivists and filmmakers. She
> was teaching everyone she contacted, in a completely unaffected
> manner. Her sing-song voice and enthusiasm was almost child-like -
> filled with creativity, soul and good will. I can't help but think
> that we have lost an important colleague just as we had all begun
> to know her.
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> Columbia native dies in shooting
> http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/16386330.htm
> “She was a wonderfully compassionate, loving, liberal person,” he
> said Thursday. “There was not a selfish bone in her body. That is
> what is so horrifyingly tragic about this. If there was anyone on
> the face of this Earth who did not deserve this, it was Helen.”
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> http://www.pdome.org/blueprint.html
> "She has been making films since the fifth grade, in South
> Carolina, Massachusetts, New Orleans and California."
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> http://www.mediaartists.org/content.php?
> sec=artist&sub=detail&artist_id=681
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> http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2001-10-09/cover_story3.html
> "Hill's voice, a highlight of Mouseholes, is a sing-songy hodge-
> podge the reflects both her South Carolina upbringing and Canadian
> residence."
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> Her voice and work in Nova Scotia and New Orleans, in many ways
> constituted a nouveau Acadie perspective, as she too had been
> displaced and found a home in Louisiana.
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