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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.
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.
A documentary about immigrant workers’ struggle between dreams and reality, spanning 13 years of filming in Taiwan and the Philippines. Followed by a Q&A with the director, Jasmine Ching-Hui Lee, and a preview trailer of Lee’s work-in-progress “Come Back My Child.” Presented by the Asian Film and Media Initiative.
A portrait of the struggles of an Argentine actor trying to find his place in New York. The Guardian praised the film as an “acutely perceptive, achingly sad character study [that] deals in downgraded dreams and the brutal realities of trying to make it as an artist.” Post-screening discussion with the director, moderated by Cinema Studies PhD student Tanya Goldman.
This documentary explores the origin and impact of Hong Kong's 2014 Umbrella Movement through the inter-generational lenses of 3 post-Tiananmen democratic activists. Post-screening discussion with filmmaker Evans Chan. Presented by the Asian Film and Media Initiative.
Join us for a weekend of conversation! Keynote address by Thomas Elsaesser, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Media and Culture of the University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor at Columbia University.
Cinematic Labyrinths: Interactive and Immersive Storytelling by The Kissinger Twins, who present their interactive and immersive storytelling projects made between 2002 and 2017.
A talk by Michael Gillespie (PhD 2007). The talk will consider the idea of black film in the terms of film blackness with attention to death and film form. With a focus on a cluster of short films, the talk poses new critical prerogatives for the idea of black film in our contemporary moment. Part of CS50.
Students in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program will present their M.A. thesis projects.
Students in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program will present their M.A. thesis projects.
Shunya Yoshimi is Professor of Sociology, Media and Cultural Studies, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at University of Tokyo. Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Studies and the Asian Film and Media Initiative.
Post-screening discussion with Director, Huang Hsin-Yao. Presented by the Asian Film and Media Initiative.
Dr. Alexandra Juhasz is the chair of the Film Department at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She makes and studies committed media practices that contribute to political change and individual and community growth. A CS50 Talk.
This talk by Michelle Cho (McGill University) addresses the proliferation of online vlogs that enact the spectacle of consumption in relation to ostensibly global popular culture.
Organized by the Department of Performance Studies, in collaboration with the Museum Studies Program and with Cinema Studies, NYU.
NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Cinema Studies, and its Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program present the 11th Orphan Film Symposium, April 11-14, 2018, at Museum of the Moving Image.
NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Cinema Studies, and its Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program present the 11th Orphan Film Symposium, April 11-14, 2018, at Museum of the Moving Image.
NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Cinema Studies, and its Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program present the 11th Orphan Film Symposium, April 11-14, 2018, at Museum of the Moving Image.
NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Cinema Studies, and its Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program present the 11th Orphan Film Symposium, April 11-14, 2018, at Museum of the Moving Image.
Three Tisch students, Annie Schweikert (MIAP), Emperatriz Ung (Game Center), and Sigga Regina Sigurthorsdottir (MIAP), will present their project on archiving the student work of Tisch’s Game Design MA Program.
Post-screening discussion with Directors J. P. Sniadecki and Joshua Bonnetta.
Zhuoyi Wang is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and the coordinator of the Chinese Program at Hamilton College.
Artist Li Xiaofei will screen a series of his video works from his ongoing project “Assembly Line” and feature in a post-screening panel discussion with Zoe Meng Jiang (Ph.d student, Cinema Studies) and Ellen Zweig (artist), moderated by Zhen Zhang (Director of Asian Film & Media Initiative).
Filip Šír, Manager for Digitization of Sound Documents at the National Museum in Prague, will discuss his experience establishing a center for audio preservation at the largest museum in the Czech Republic, as well as the history of the Czech Republic's National Sound Archive.
A talk by Georgina Kleege, University of California Berkeley, English and Disability Studies. Co-sponsored by THE CENTER for DISABILITY STUDIES and the CENTER for MEDIA, CULTURE & HISTORY
A talk by Anelise Reich Corseuil, Professor of Literatures in English and Film Studies at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil (UFSC).
Joel Schlemowitz provides a brief history of the magic lantern while demonstrating its unique attributes: animated slip-slides, dissolving views, and gear-work mechanical lantern slides.
Drawing on his recently published book, Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958–1977 (Univ. of California Press 2018), Joshua Glick will discuss how the city emerged as a hub for nonfiction media, one in which documentarians working between the election of John F. Kennedy and the Bicentennial created conflicting visions of the recent and more distant American past.
Christopher Harris’ films and video installations read African American historiography through the poetics and aesthetics of experimental cinema. His work employs manually and photo-chemically altered appropriated moving images, staged reenactments of archival artifacts, and interrogations of documentary conventions. Screening includes Halimuhfack (2016), Reckless Eyeballing (2004) and this latest work still/here (2018).
The 9th Annual Experimental Lecture, presented by the Department of Cinema Studies and Undergraduate Film & TV. Featuring a rare 16mm screening of Barbara Rubin's Christmas on Earth.
Hosted by the Asian Film and Media Initiative (Cinema Studies, NYU), this series foregrounds intimate queer worlds that often get eclipsed in narratives of migration and diaspora.
The Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) M.A. Program will host an in-person and virtual information session for prospective students on Tuesday, October 9, 6:00pm to 7:15pm EDT.
A talk by Carol Stabile (Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Oregon; Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon). Co-sponsored by NYU Liberal Studies.
This event suggests paying a particular attention to the ethnographic side of Baltic poetic documentaries thinking about how the filmmakers approached subjects of their films and how the poetic mode allowed them to bring national themes into their works. Screening of selected short documentaries followed by panel discussion with Riho Västrik (University of Tallinn), Sally Berger (Center for Media, Culture and History, NYU) and Pacho Velez (New School University), moderated by Lukas Brasiskis (Cinema Studies, NYU).
Dan Callahan, the author of The Art of American Screen Acting, 1912-1960, takes us through the evolution of acting for the camera: from Lillian Gish in the silent era to John Barrymore and Bette Davis in the sound era.
Come meet the Canine Community of Cinema Studies featuring an all-star line up including Iris, June, Roz, Suzy, and Sondra, as well as other special guests.
New York City—save your personal archives! Home Movie Weekend 2018 will take place at the Museum of the Moving Image.
New York City—save your personal archives! Home Movie Weekend 2018 will take place at the Museum of the Moving Image.
Screening followed by Q&A with director moderated Professor Zhang Zhen 张真 (Cinema Studies, NYU). Presented by Parallax Films and Fourth Wall Cinema. Co-sponsored by the Asian Film and Media Initiative in the Department of Cinema Studies.
The Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) M.A. Program will host an in-person and virtual information session for prospective students on Monday, October 22, 6:00pm to 7:15pm EDT.
Filmmaker Eva Stefani returns to NYU to show a selection of short- and medium-length films, spanning over 20 years, exploring womanhood and the female body.
Screening and discussion with filmmakers, Konstantinos Kambouroglu and Heather Greer. Moderated by Professor Toby Lee (Cinema Studies)