Ross Lipman is a freelance archivist, filmmaker and essayist. Formerly Senior Film Restorationist at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, his many restorations include works by Barbara Loden, Charles Burnett, John Cassavetes, Orson Welles, Shirley Clarke, Kenneth Anger, Julie Dash, Rob Epstein, Bruce Conner, Lourdes Portillo, Eleanor Antin, Mack Sennett, Dziga Vertov and Robert Altman. His 2015/16 documentary Notfilm, on Samuel Beckett’s FILM starring Buster Keaton, was named one of the 10 best films of the year by Artforum, Slate, and many others. Lipman is a three-time winner of the National Society of Film Critics’ Heritage Award, and recipient of Anthology Film Archives’ Preservation award.