Cinema Studies Events - Spring 2017
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Docs on the Edge 2017
May 12, 2017
A student documentary showcase from the 2016-2017 video production seminar.
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Through Being Cool: The Music Videos of Mark Mothersbaugh and DEVO
May 1, 2017
Screenings and commentary on selections from DEVO’s groundbreaking music videos.
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An Evening with Su Friedrich
April 28, 2017
Experimental filmmaker Su Friedrich presents her latest documentary entitled "I Cannot Tell You How I Feel."
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Gendering Memory in Italian Women’s Documentary
April 19, 2017
A talk by Veronica Pravadelli.
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Anachronisms Conference
April 14-15, 2017
An investigation of the political, aesthetic and epistemological underpinnings of the notion of anachronism.
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Contemporary Queer Film’s Aquatic Metaphors
April 12, 2017
A lecture by Professor Diego Semerene (Brown University) proposing a critical reading of the material, psychic and erotic function of water in the age of thalassopolitics through queer films such as "Stranger by the Lake," "Being 17," and "Moonlight."
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Boundary
April 5, 2017
This is a documentary about Ye Si (LEUNG Ping Kwan), the legendary Hong Kong writer. The screening will be followed by a Q&A discussion with director Ben WONG King-fai and producer Mary WONG Shuk-han.
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Spotlight on New Talents: Dan Finn & Brain Castriota
April 5, 2017
A showcase of recent NYU graduates working in time-based media art conservation/preservation.
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2017 MIAP Thesis Week
March 31 - April 6, 2017
Students in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program give presentations about their M.A. thesis projects.
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Special Interactive Event with Artist Paul Vanouse
March 29, 2017
A rare opportunity to experience some of the first interactive documentaries, not screened together since the early 2000s!
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Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema from UCLA
March 28, 2017
Screening of a documentary which provides intimate access to several filmmakers identified with L.A. Rebellion, followed by a discussion with the director Zeinabu irene Davis.
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Green Screens
March 23-25, 2017
Screenings and discussions with filmmakers and scholars on the environmental crises facing communities worldwide.
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Spotlight on New Talents in Time-Based Media Art Conservation
March 22, 2017
A showcase of recent graduates working to conserve and preserve time-based media art, featuring Amy Brost and Athena Christa Holbrook.
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Sergeant Rutledge & John Ford’s Liberal Gaze
March 8, 2017
A talk by Claudia Calhoun about Ford's integrationist Western, a drama that projected 1960s race relations backwards into a nineteenth-century frontier space in order to appeal to the sympathies of contemporary audiences.
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Every Fold Matters
March 3, 2017
A live performance and film project that looks at the charged, intimate space of the neighborhood laundromat and the people who work there.
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An Evening with Bill Ayers & Bernadine Dorn
March 1, 2017
Weather Underground Organization co-founders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn bring the knowledge gained from their past work to inform an efficacious radicality for the contemporary moment in a conversation moderated by Professor Toby Lee (NYU Cinema Studies), preceded by a screening of select clips from the Weather Underground Organization's history.
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At the Limit: Borders, Margins, Walls
February 24-25, 2017
A weekend of conversation at NYU Cinema Studies' Annual Student Conference.
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Robert Frank’s Intermedial Cinema
February 22, 2017
"The Wind Will Blow The Fire of Pain Across Everyone in Time:" a talk by George Kouvaros.
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Siegfried Kracauer & the Historical Film
February 15, 2017
"Things as They Could Have Happened:" a talk by Nicholas Baer.
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Multimedia Film Analysis
February 10, 2017
A workshop, led by Cinema Studies visiting assistant professor Marina Hassapopoulou, focusing on demonstrations and applications of easy-to-use tools for film/audiovisual media analysis.
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One Mind: A Zen Pilgrimage
February 3, 2017
Screening of a documentary with an immersive cinematic meditation on life within one of modern China’s most austere and respected Zen monastic communities, followed by discussion with Director Edward A. Burger.
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Amos Vogel and Cinema 16
February 1, 2017
Screening of a selection of short documentaries and avante-garde films made by the Cinema 16 film society.
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Political Advertisement IX
January 28, 2017
A screening of presidential campaign spots from 1952 to the present, followed by a panel discussion with Director Marshall Reese, Professor Howard Besser and two Tisch students about the construction and impact of campaign advertising, particularly focusing on the most recent presidential campaign.
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