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.
Friday, Sep. 27, 2024
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Book Talk: Abolishing Surveillance
Abolishing Surveillance offers the first in-depth study of how various communities and activist organizations are resisting such efforts by integrating digital media activism into their actions against state surveillance and repression and for a better world.
Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024
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2024 MIAP Info Sessions
Announcing the 2024 MIAP Info Session dates
Friday, Oct. 4, 2024
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Khalik Allah’s Black Mother (2018, 77 mins.)
The screening will be followed by a Q and A with the film's director, cinematographer, editor and co-producer Khalik Allah, and filmmakers and NYU Undergraduate Film and TV professors Shevaun Mizrahi and Alfonso Morgan-Terrero.
Friday, Oct. 11, 2024
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Mystery Laserdisc Spooktacular
Experience a spooky film in a novel format just in time for Halloween!
Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024
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2024 MIAP Info Sessions
Announcing the 2024 MIAP Info Session dates
Friday, Oct. 18, 2024
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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.
Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024
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NYU AMIA Student Chapter - Home Movie Day
Bring your 8mm, 16mm, VHS, Hi-8 and miniDV home movies, enjoy an afternoon of discoveries, and learn about best practices for preservation. This is a day to preserve, share, and screen your local history.
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. 28, 2025
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Cinema Studies Student Conference
We welcome submissions from a variety of fields and disciplines and encourage interdisciplinary approaches to the provocation of templates.
Saturday, Mar. 1, 2025
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Cinema Studies Student Conference
We welcome submissions from a variety of fields and disciplines and encourage interdisciplinary approaches to the provocation of templates.