Cinema Studies Events - Fall 2019

After Concrete Architecture: Li Juchuan in Conversation with Professor Thomas Looser

In 1996, Li Juchuan drafted a semi-manifesto “Concrete Architecture,” declaring his approach to architecture that both penetrates and transcends the very discipline at that time in China. For him, Concrete Architecture concerns the question: how does architecture become possible, at this time, at this place, for one as an individual? Architecture is a privileged lens through which Li’s performances, videos, and site-specific installations are understood. Particularly, video was the new site and material for architecture, allowing new possibilities for architecture. Two decades after the manifesto, what have changed and what remained the same? How does architecture become possible now, when the condition of urban dwelling has completed transformed?

The Computational Sublime: Videos by Gregg Biermann

Experimental Response Cinema is excited to host Gregg Biermann, who will be at NYU to present a survey of work he completed over the last decade.

The Burning Child (2019): Post-Screening Discussion with Filmmaker

Film screening followed by discussion with filmmaker, Joseph Leo Koerner. Co-sponsored by the Remarque Institute and the Department of Cinema Studies.

Korean American Film Festival New York @ NYU

Shorts program from the Korean American Film Festival New York, which features films that challenge the limits of national, cultural and gender boundaries. The screening will also include the trailers of officially selected feature films of the year. There will be a post-screening Q&A with local filmmakers and the festival representatives.

Nathaniel Dorsky: Montage and the Human Spirit

The 10th Annual Experimental lecture, presented by NYU's Department of Cinema Studies and Undergraduate Film & TV Department.

Tisch Community Week 2019

Join the Departments of Cinema Studies and Game Design in a fun fusion of Screens and Games!

Celebrating the screens of Cinema Studies at 721 and the innovative play of Game Design at 370 Jay Street, we welcome students to visit both departments and play a wide range of games from board style classics to flashback Atari daily! We’ll also be hosting a room for serious word gamers at 721 every day!

Home Movie Day 2019

The Association of Moving Image Archivists Student Chapter at New York University Presents: Home Movie Day 2019!

Film Screening: Sevmek Zamani (Time to Love)

Co-sponsored by NYU’s Department of Cinema Studies, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative (OTS-NYU), and Grey Art Gallery. Offered in conjunction with the exhibition Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU's Abby Weed Grey Collection, on view at NYU's Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Square East, September 10-December 7, 2019.

What We Did Last Summer: A Retrospective of APEX International Collaborations

Please join us for a celebration of over ten years of the Audiovisual Preservation Exchange on Friday, October 25 at 6:00 pm.

Jonas Mekas Expanded

The presentations by art historians and critics Melissa Ragona (Carnegie Mellon University), Andrew Uroskie (Stony Brook University) and Ed Halter (Bard College) will be preceded by the screening of Film Magazine of the Arts (Jonas Mekas, 1963), Letter to John From Jonas (Jonas Mekas, 1999) as well as clips from Walden (Jonas Mekas, 1968) and Lost Lost Lost (Jonas Mekas, 1976).

Reel China @ NYU 9th Biennial 2019

We invite you to join us for two and a half days of screenings and discussions for the 9th Biennial Reel China. Co-Presented by the Asian Film and Media Initiative (AFMI) at the Department of Cinema Studies, and the Center for Religion and Media (CRM), New York University.

The Rapturous Endings of Soviet Musical Films

A talk by Dr. Anne Eakin Moss, Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University

Everyday and the Experience of War in Late Modernity: A Case of Eastern European Cinema and Video Art

As part of an international two-year research project (2017-2019) The Everyday and the Representation of War Trauma in Late Modernity, this event will analyze the visual representations of the experience of war in Eastern European films and video art.

Alumni Panel: Careers Outside Academia

Join us in welcoming back a panel of Cinema Studies alums who will talk about their career paths outside academia.

Changing the Game: Screening and Q&A

Changing the Game (2019) is an accessible, personal, and sensitive approach to a topic on which national coverage has consistently been the opposite. Director Michael Barnett’s intense, engaging narrative documentary following transgender high school athletes Andraya Yearwood, Sarah Rose Huckman, and Mack Beggs (whose shock-fueled wrestling headlines you might remember) delves far deeper than the often-hysterical media attention afforded to trans high school athletes.

Markie in Milwaukee: Screening and Q&A

Matt Kliegman's (NYU, BFA, Film, 2006) first documentary, Markie in Milwaukee is the story of a transgender woman from the Midwest who grapples with her identity due to her strong faith and pushback from her fundamentalist church, broken family, and ostracization from co-workers.