THE CHINSEGUT CONFERENCE ON THE MOVING IMAGE was founded in 1976 at the University of South Florida Chinsegut retreat center in Brooksville.  A congenial gathering of filmmakers, artists and scholars, it specializes in independent filmmaking, in outdoor events and performances, in motion images as art, and in the Avant-garde. Over twenty-nine annual conferences have featured many of the foremost artists of our time as invited presenters: Susan Pitt, Scott Bartlett, Spike Lee, Stan Brackage, Will Hindle, Dick Loveless, Pat O’Niell, Pat Olesko, Les Blank, Mary Beams, Robert Breer, Bruce Conner, Barbara Hammer, Chick Strand and more than fifty others.