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, Oct. 23, 2024
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ERICA TREMBLAY (Seneca-Cayuga) SCREENS AND DISCUSSES HER DIRECTORIAL WORK ON RESERVATION DOGS
Post-screening discussion: NYU Cinema Studies Professor JACOB FLOYD (Muscogee/Creek) and ERICA TREMBLAY.
Friday, Oct. 25, 2024
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Alumni Weekend 2024
Save the date!
Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024
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Alumni Weekend 2024
Save the date!
Monday, Oct. 28, 2024
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2024 MIAP Info Sessions
Announcing the 2024 MIAP Info Session dates
Friday, Nov. 1, 2024
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11th Reel China Biennial at NYU
This edition of Reel China once more brings back to NYC innovative and bold works by veteran filmmakers in the PRC along with diaspora and emerging Sinophone voices.
Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024
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11th Reel China Biennial at NYU
This edition of Reel China once more brings back to NYC innovative and bold works by veteran filmmakers in the PRC along with diaspora and emerging Sinophone voices.
Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024
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11th Reel China Biennial at NYU
This edition of Reel China once more brings back to NYC innovative and bold works by veteran filmmakers in the PRC along with diaspora and emerging Sinophone voices.
Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024
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Book launch: THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO ASIAN CINEMAS
Edited by Zhen Zhang, Sangjoon Lee, Debashree Mukherjee, & Intan Paramaditha Presented by The Asian Film & Media Initiative (Afmi), NYU
Friday, Nov. 8, 2024
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"Experience what cannot be said": Gina Kim's VR Trilogy to XR
This event will feature the director's talk on her journey from producing the VR trilogy to her recent experimentations with other reality media.
Friday, Nov. 15, 2024
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YOU'RE INVITED: Interactive Cinema Book Celebration
The event will include a participatory screening of Kinoautomat, the first feature-length choose-your-own-adventure "vending machine" movie by Czechoslovak filmmaker Radúz Činčera that premiered at Expo 67 in Montreal.
Monday, Nov. 18, 2024
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2024 MIAP Info Sessions
Announcing the 2024 MIAP Info Session dates
Friday, Dec. 13, 2024
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Dana Polan on Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Dana Polan is the Martin Scorsese Professor and department chair in the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies.
Friday, Feb. 7, 2025
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Film Screening: Twice Colonized (2023, 91 mins.)
Discussion: AAJU PETER with Iñupiaq filmmaker ANDREW MACLEAN (Film & TV). Moderator: Muscogee filmmaker and scholar JACOB FLOYD (Cinema Studies).
Friday, Feb. 14, 2025
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Film Screening: THREE SEASONS (1999, 109 min.)
Screening followed by Q&A with filmmaker Tony Bui.
Friday, Feb. 21, 2025
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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. 28, 2025
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TEMPLATE: Cinema Studies Student Conference
Join us for a weekend of conversation!
Saturday, Mar. 1, 2025
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TEMPLATE: Cinema Studies Student Conference
Join us for a weekend of conversation!
Tuesday, Mar. 4, 2025
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Exhibiting Forgiveness: A Film Screening and Conversation with Titus Kaphar
Join us for a full screening of Exhibiting Forgiveness followed by a conversation with Titus Kaphar
Friday, Mar. 7, 2025
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Faculty Screening Night
Join us in celebrating original films by our own Cinema Studies faculty! Featuring work by Jacob Floyd, Toby Lee, and Allen Weiss.
Friday, Mar. 14, 2025
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Porn Against Cisness
We invite you to a night of screening and discussions of the potentials of queer porn for liberatory feminist politics.
Monday, Mar. 17, 2025
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MIAP Thesis Week
Each year, graduating students present their in-process final projects to the community for feedback and encouragement.
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2025
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MIAP Thesis Week
Each year, graduating students present their in-process final projects to the community for feedback and encouragement.
Wednesday, Mar. 19, 2025
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MIAP Thesis Week
Each year, graduating students present their in-process final projects to the community for feedback and encouragement.
Thursday, Mar. 20, 2025
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MIAP Thesis Week
Each year, graduating students present their in-process final projects to the community for feedback and encouragement.
Friday, Mar. 21, 2025
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MIAP Thesis Week
Each year, graduating students present their in-process final projects to the community for feedback and encouragement.
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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, Apr. 4, 2025
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Center for Research and Study Graduate Student Conference: Camp | Fire
organized by the joint effort of students at the departments of Performance Studies, Art & Public Policy, and the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies.
Saturday, Apr. 5, 2025
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Center for Research and Study Graduate Student Conference: Camp | Fire
organized by the joint effort of students at the departments of Performance Studies, Art & Public Policy, and the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies.
Friday, Apr. 11, 2025
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Student Showcase
See your short film on the big screen! Join us for a student showcase on Friday, April 11 at 6:00pm in the Michelson Theater.
Friday, Apr. 18, 2025
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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, Apr. 25, 2025
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the art of blackness: a symposium
This concentration of black study considers the multivalence and critical consequence of blackness as an aesthetic and cultural idea enacted through and across the arts.
Friday, May 2, 2025
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Queer Visions: Treasures From the Nonfiction Avant-Garde
Five distinct cinematic voices presented in their original 16mm format.
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
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Book Launch: Toward a More Perfect Rebellion
'Toward a More Perfect Rebellion' tells the riveting story of the socially engaged filmmakers of color who studied in the Ethno-Communications Program at the University of California, Los Angeles, between 1969 and 1973.

















