Events
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.
Request accommodations here.
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.
Request disability accommodations here.
Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023
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MIAP Info Sessions
Join virtually to learn more about this program
Friday, Nov. 3, 2023
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13th Annual Experimental Lecture with Su Friedrich
Su Friedrich “How to Eventually Drag Your Private Life, Kicking and Screaming, Into the Public...After Passing a Few Roadblocks”
Monday, Nov. 6, 2023
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MIAP Info Sessions
Join virtually to learn more about this program
Friday, Nov. 10, 2023
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Secret Sixteen Screening
This monthly series pairs 16mm films from the Cinema Studies Archive with lo-fi gems, oddball curiosities, and pre-internet obscurities.
Friday, Nov. 17, 2023
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REEL TAIWAN
This special program (consisting of five fictional, experimental and documentary films) joins the celebrations taking place in Taipei, Paris and elsewhere this fall.
Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023
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REEL TAIWAN
This special program (consisting of five fictional, experimental and documentary films) joins the celebrations taking place in Taipei, Paris and elsewhere this fall.
Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023
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REEL TAIWAN
This special program (consisting of five fictional, experimental and documentary films) joins the celebrations taking place in Taipei, Paris and elsewhere this fall.
Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023
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MIAP Info Sessions
Join virtually to learn more about this program
Friday, Dec. 1, 2023
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Just About that Action, Boss: Sporting Blackness and the Televisual Politics and Pleasures of Marshawn Lynch
In this talk, Dr. Samantha Sheppard (Cornell University) will discuss the televisual politics and pleasures that constellate around former professional football player Marshawn Lynch.
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MIAP Info Sessions
Join virtually to learn more about this program
Friday, Dec. 8, 2023
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Secret Sixteen Screening
This monthly series pairs 16mm films from the Cinema Studies Archive with lo-fi gems, oddball curiosities, and pre-internet obscurities.
Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023
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No Rule Is Our Rule
Join us for a screening and discussion of No Rule is Our Rule, a collaborative documentary film about the friendship between two fiercely independent, interdisciplinary female dance artists Eiko Otake and Wen Hui.
Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023
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Wen Hui's I AM 60
This colloquium will commence with a collective movement workshop (30 min), followed by an illustrated presentation with images, video clips and Wen Hui’s live performance drawn from the work. We will also touch on Wen Hui’s latest creation, New Report on Giving Birth (2023).
Friday, Feb. 2, 2024
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Secret Sixteen Screening
This monthly series pairs 16mm films from the Cinema Studies Archive with lo-fi gems, oddball curiosities, and pre-internet obscurities.
Friday, Feb. 9, 2024
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bodies trapped in ice: queer adaptation, iteration, and Sally Potter's Orlando
Pulling from their Queer Film Classics volume, Sheaffer's talk examines Sally Potter's perennially and progressively queer adaptation of Virgina Woolf's Orlando (1928).
Monday, Feb. 12, 2024
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American Glass Factory
In a live performance from the audio series "Trust Issues," filmmaker and World Records editor Jason Fox explores the sixty-year-long relationship between Direct Cinema and Democratic Party politics.
Friday, Feb. 23, 2024
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Cinema Studies Student Conference – holding the gaze
Join us for a weekend of conversation with this year's Cinema Studies Student Conference - holding the gaze.
Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024
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Cinema Studies Student Conference – holding the gaze
Join us for a weekend of conversation with this year's Cinema Studies Student Conference - holding the gaze.
Friday, Mar. 1, 2024
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Accidental Exposures: A Media History of Failure
In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches, knife-wielding psychopaths, and dark-caped vampires. Seeing Things is about the sudden cuts, botched makeup effects, continuity errors, and celluloid damage found in these movies.
Friday, Mar. 8, 2024
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Max Roach at 100: Percussion, Protest, and Perseverance
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes (Sam Pollard and Ben Shapiro, 2023). Screening followed by live call and response between Sam Pollard and Josslyn Luckett.
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Queering State Power in Asian Diasporic World-Making
Queering State Power in Asian Diasporic World-Making explores instances and histories of Asian diaspora that de-center the state queerly.
Friday, Mar. 15, 2024
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Secret Sixteen Screening
This monthly series pairs 16mm films from the Cinema Studies Archive with lo-fi gems, oddball curiosities, and pre-internet obscurities.
Monday, Mar. 25, 2024
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MIAP Thesis Week 2024
The Moving Image Archiving and Preservation MA program is proud to present graduating students' culminating research and preservation projects from Monday, March 25th - Friday, March 29th in Michelson Theater at 721 Broadway, 6th Floor.
Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2024
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MIAP Thesis Week 2024
The Moving Image Archiving and Preservation MA program is proud to present graduating students' culminating research and preservation projects from Monday, March 25th - Friday, March 29th in Michelson Theater at 721 Broadway, 6th Floor.
Wednesday, Mar. 27, 2024
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MIAP Thesis Week 2024
The Moving Image Archiving and Preservation MA program is proud to present graduating students' culminating research and preservation projects from Monday, March 25th - Friday, March 29th in Michelson Theater at 721 Broadway, 6th Floor.
Friday, Mar. 29, 2024
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MIAP Thesis Week 2024
The Moving Image Archiving and Preservation MA program is proud to present graduating students' culminating research and preservation projects from Monday, March 25th - Friday, March 29th in Michelson Theater at 721 Broadway, 6th Floor.
Friday, Apr. 5, 2024
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(Un)Making - Graduate Student Conference
Sponsored by the Center for Research & Study at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, this graduate student conference is organized by the joint effort of students at the departments of Cinema Studies, Performance Studies, and Art & Public Policy.
Saturday, Apr. 6, 2024
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(Un)Making - Graduate Student Conference
Sponsored by the Center for Research & Study at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, this graduate student conference is organized by the joint effort of students at the departments of Cinema Studies, Performance Studies, and Art & Public Policy.
Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2024
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Orphan Film Symposium at the Museum of the Moving Image
We convene April 10-13, 2024, at Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, NYC. Our theme: Work & Play.
Thursday, Apr. 11, 2024
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Orphan Film Symposium at the Museum of the Moving Image
We convene April 10-13, 2024, at Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, NYC. Our theme: Work & Play.
Friday, Apr. 12, 2024
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Orphan Film Symposium at the Museum of the Moving Image
We convene April 10-13, 2024, at Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, NYC. Our theme: Work & Play.
Saturday, Apr. 13, 2024
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Orphan Film Symposium at the Museum of the Moving Image
We convene April 10-13, 2024, at Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, NYC. Our theme: Work & Play.
Friday, Apr. 19, 2024
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Secret Sixteen Screening
This monthly series pairs 16mm films from the Cinema Studies Archive with lo-fi gems, oddball curiosities, and pre-internet obscurities.
Friday, May 3, 2024
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Letting the World Know: The Role of Film in the Spanish Civil War
Shot on 16mm film, Harry Randall's work documents the life of the troops as well as quotidian life in the Spanish countryside during the war.
Friday, May 10, 2024
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Secret Sixteen Screening
This monthly series pairs 16mm films from the Cinema Studies Archive with lo-fi gems, oddball curiosities, and pre-internet obscurities.