About me
Patricia Ledesma Villon is the Bentson Archivist and Assistant Curator of the Moving Image department of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she oversees the preservation of the Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection. She has processed audiovisual collections and worked on archival initiatives for the Prelinger Archives, the Center for Asian American Media’s “Memories to Light” home movie project, filmmaker and scholar Trinh T. Minh-ha, and the Philippine Film Archive. Her archival practices focus on the intersections of collections and public curation, photochemical filmmaking and preservation, theories of audiovisual archiving, digital preservation, and artist-made cinema and exhibition. Patricia holds an MLIS with a specialization in Media Archival Studies from UCLA. She is also a member and co-organizer of Light Field, an annual exhibition of recent and historical moving image art on film in the San Francisco Bay Area, and serves on the Board of Directors of Canyon Cinema Foundation.
