Cinema Studies Events - Spring 2016
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The Monument Hunter
May 26, 2016
Screening and discussion with director Jerónimo Rodríguez.
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Period Zapoya: Alcohol and Cinema during the Brezhnev Era
May 13, 2016
A talk by Catriona Kelly, professor of Russian at the University of Oxford and Fellow of the British Academy.
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Docs on the Edge: 2015-2016 Showcase
May 12, 2016
A Student Documentary Showcase from the 2015-2016 Video Production Seminar.
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The Amateur Cinema Project: Works by Ephraim Horowitz & Robbins Barstow
May 4, 2016
A screening of films hosted by NYU-MIAP alumna Genevieve Havemeyer-King and Director of MIAP Dan Streible.
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Thomas Elsaesser on Film Theory Through the Senses
April 25, 2016
A public talk by Thomas Elsaesser in Marina Hassapopoulou's "Film Theory Through the Senses" graduate course.
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Gordon Matta-Clark’s New York: The City and the Artist (1971-76)
April 20, 2016
A screening with Matta-Clark’s films made in New York between 1971 and 1976, in an effort to understand the relationship between his artistic practice and the local urban environment that inspired it.
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Transformations I 2016
April 15-16, 2016
A conference where scholars discuss the interrelation or conjuncture of cinema and media studies research with digital humanities tools.
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MIAP Thesis Presentations 2016
March 28-April 1, 2016
Students in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program present their M.A. thesis projects, covering a wide range of topics such as preserving malware, the video installations of Buky Schwartz, archiving hip-hop culture, and the differences between musicals on-stage and on-screen.
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Reel Asia: Three Women Filmmakers from Taiwan, South Korea and Bangladesh
March 25-26, 2016
A two-day mini-festival celebrating Asian women filmmakers’ contribution to world cinema, featuring Yu-shan Huang (Taiwan), Soyoung Kim (South Korea) and Rubaiyat Hossain (Bangladesh). All three filmmakers are current or former NYU Cinema Studies students.
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Antonio Somaini: "From Dionysus to Television" - Eisenstein and the Techno-Anthropological Foundations of Montage
March 23, 2016
A lecture about how the anthropological foundations of the artistic principle of montage have roots in the same Dionysian rites in which Nietzsche had found the origins of tragedy, and in the "cultural techniques" of weaving and knotting.
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China's Van Gogh
March 22, 2016
A screening of the rough cut of the documentary by Haibo Yu and Tianqi Yu on the journey of copy-painters becoming original artists, followed by a discussion with producer and co-director Kiki Tianqi Yu.
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The Cinema of (Coming) Attractions
March 9, 2016
Cinema Studies PhD Students Tanya Goldman and Alexander Davis examine the history and unexpected poetics of the Hollywood film trailer.
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Displacement: Cinema Studies Graduate Student Conference 2016
March 4-5, 2016
A celebration of Chantal Akerman’s memory, focusing on one of her most consistent and deeply examined themes: displacement. Featuring keynote speaker Giuliana Bruno (Harvard University), closing remarks from Sandy Flitterman-Lewis (Rutgers University) and a screening of Akerman’s 2006 film Là-bas.
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Living Los Sures
March 3, 2016
Screening of the groundbreaking documentary Los Sures (60 min., 1984, Dir: Diego Echeverria) chronicling Latino lives in pre-gentrified Williamsburg and inspiring the current collaborative UnionDocs project, Living Los Sures. Discussion: former Commissioner of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment Cynthia Lopez, with Christopher Allen (UnionDocs) and Melvin Estrella.
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Organizing/Filmmaking/Archiving: Films from the Third World Newsreel Archives
February 27, 2016
A presentation of rarely seen and recently preserved 16mm films from Newsreel and Third World Newsreel's early days. Activists from the Communities United for Police Reform, CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, El Comite Pro-Reforma Migratoria Y Justicia, and others join in conversation with filmmakers past and present, preservationists, educators, and scholars.
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True, Good, Beautiful: Politics & Forms of Virtue in Xi Jinping-Era China
February 26, 2016
The phrase zhen, shan, mei–here translated as “true, good, beautiful”–encapsulates total goodness, a phrase used in everything from self-help literature to soap-opera television, associated with both idealism and naivete. We use it to open a discussion across the bounds of languages and disciplines, on the politics and economics of the forms of virtue in contemporary China.
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Kalkimanthankatha: The Churning of Kalki
February 19, 2016
Screening and discussion with filmmaker Ashish Avikunthak.
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Jennifer Peterson: The Space of Nature in Mid-Century Nudist Films
February 17, 2016
A talk about how nature and gender were spatialized in nudist films of the 1950s and 60s such as Garden of Eden (Max Nosseck, 1954), Naked Venus (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1958), and Diary of a Nudist (Doris Wishman, 1961).
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Easy-to-use Digital Tools for Film Analysis
February 12, 2016
A workshop focusing on demonstrations and applications of easy-to-use platforms for film/audiovisual media analysis, such as video annotation software, and interactive image annotation tools like Thinglink.
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Welcome to This House
February 5, 2016
Screening and discussion with filmmaker Barbara Hammer.
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Golden Gate Girls
February 3, 2016
Screening and discussion with filmmaker S. Louisa Wei.
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Robert Frank Film Works
January 29-30, 2016
Screenings presented in conjunction with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, as part of Robert Frank: Books and Films, 1947–2016, organized by the Department of Photography and Imaging.
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Alina Marazzi - Film Screenings and Workshop
January 27-28, 2016
Award-winning Italian filmmaker Alina Marazzi presents three of her films and hosts a workshop on first-person filmmaking and use of archival footage.
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