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The Cinema Studies Department regularly hosts events that include lectures, screenings, and discussions, including our Wednesday Night Series, which is open to the public.
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The Cinema Studies Department regularly hosts events that include lectures, screenings, and discussions, including our Wednesday Night Series, which is open to the public.
Join our Cinema Studies announcements listserv to receive emails about upcoming film-related events within and outside the department!
To view past events, check out our Event History page.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of lifting the Martial Law and Taiwan’s march toward democracy. Films chosen for this program cover the past three decades of Taiwan cinema to reflect upon the lives of people who are directly or indirectly affected by the Martial Law and its passing. Screenings include SUPER CITIZEN KO 《超級大國民》(Wan Jen, 1995, 104m) and HAND IN HAND 《牽阮的手》(Juang Yi-tzeng, Yen Lan-chuan, 140m), followed by discussion with the program curators and filmmakers. Co-sponsored by the Taipei Cultural Center in New York, Ministry of Culture, Republic of China (Taiwan) and the Asian Film & Media Initiative in the Department of Cinema Studies.
In many ways an animating spirit and catalyzing agent of the NYC underground film scene from the 1980s to the present, Bradley Eros' radical, sumptuous expanded cinema works stand at the forefront of a movement to redefine our understanding of film as an art form. For his Experimental Lecture, Eros will “attempt to dismantle a few beliefs, by prying history loose, not nailing it down. His lecture will take the form of a series of questions, interrupted by quotations, collaborations, expanded and contracted cinema, jokes & aphorisms, music, poetry, and surprise. Eros will talk on the nature of process, the immaterial, unfixed forms, hybrid works, resistance, desire & its discontents.
How did Hollywood cinema reflect, deflect, influence, inspire, and steal from modernism’s new aesthetics? Chance at Heaven (RKO, 1933) provides a way of thinking through that question. Directed by William Seiter with art direction by Van Nest Polglase and Perry Ferguson; starring Joel McCrea, Ginger Rogers, and Marian Nixon; with commentary by Drake Stutesman, Adjunct Professor of Cinema Studies (TSOA) and Costume Studies (Steinhardt), NYU. Film screening co-sponsored by NYU Cinema Studies and the Grey Art Gallery as part of the exhibition Partners in Design: Alfred H. Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson.