Cinema Studies Events - Spring 2018
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Film narratives crossing time and space in the Americas
May 9, 2018
A talk by Anelise Reich Corseuil, Professor of Literatures in English and Film Studies at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil (UFSC)
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More than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Film
May 2, 2018
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
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Audio Preservation in the Czech Republic: A Look Behind the Curtains
April 30, 2018
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.
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An Afternoon with Li Xiaofei and The Assembly Line Project 《流水线项目系列录像》
April 27, 2018
Artist Li Xiaofei presents a series of his video works from his ongoing project “Assembly Line” and featurds 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).
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Transforming the Liminal Hero: Border-crossing Interconnections in The Taking of Tiger Mountain
April 26, 2018
Zhuoyi Wang is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and the coordinator of the Chinese Program at Hamilton College.
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El Mar La Mar: Screening and Discussion
April 25, 2018
Post-screening discussion with directors, J.P. Sniadecki and Joshua Bonnetta moderated by Ulla Berg.
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SaveFile: Towards a Games Archive at NYU
April 16, 2018
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.
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11th Orphan Film Symposium: Love
April 11 - 14, 2018
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.
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Curating Performance Symposium: Curation As Collaboration
April 6, 2018
Organized by the Department of Performance Studies, in collaboration with the Museum Studies Program and with Cinema Studies, NYU.
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Vicarious Media: Kpop, Mukbang, and Consuming Consumption
April 5, 2018
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.
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Fake News Poetry and Radical Digital Media Literacy
April 4, 2018
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.
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Taivalu (2010) and The Great Buddha (2014): Screening and Discussion
April 3, 2018
Post-screening discussion with director Huang Hsin-Yao. Presented by the Asian Film and Media Initiative.
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Postwar Tokyo: Reality and Imagination through the Camera
March 30, 2018
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.
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MIAP Thesis Week 2018
March 26-28, 2018
Students in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program will present their M.A. thesis projects.
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Black Rhythm Happening: Film Blackness and Contemporary Cinema
March 20, 2018
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.
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Cinematic Labyrinths: Interactive and Immersive Storytelling
February 28, 2018
The Kissinger Twins present interactive and immersive storytelling projects made between 2002 and 2017.
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What Now?: Annual Cinema Studies Student Conference
February 23-24, 2018
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.
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Raise the Umbrellas: Screening and Discussion
February 21, 2018
Post-screening discussion with filmmaker Evans Chan, moderated by Zhen Zhang (director of the Asian Film and Media Initiative).
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Nadie Nos Mira (Nobody's Watching): Screening and Discussion
February 14, 2018
Post-screening discussion with director Julia Solomonoff, moderated by Tanya Goldman, Cinema Studies PhD student.
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Money & Honey: Screening and Discussion
February 9, 2018
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.
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BlaxploItalian: Screening and Discussion
February 2, 2018
Followed by a discussion with the director, Fred Kuwornu. "BlaxploItalian" is a diasporic, hybrid, critical, and cosmopolitan dimension documentary that uncovers the careers of a population of entertainers seldom heard from before: Black actors in Italian cinema starting from 1915 when the first black actor appeared in an Italian film.
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Interference Archive: Cultural Production and Open Access
January 31, 2018
Jen Hoyer (Interference Archive organizer) leads an illustrated lecture tracing the history and current work of Interference Archive, with a focus on the role of video in the no. NOT EVER. exhibition.
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