Cinema Studies Events - Spring 2015
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Docs on the Edge - new student documentaries from the NYU Culture & Media Program
May 12, 2015
A Student Documentary Showcase from the 2014-2015 Video Production Seminar. Presented by the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Cinema Studies, and the Program in Culture and Media.
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Beyond "Asian Extremes": A Workshop on New Cinema Practices in Southeast and East Asia
May 1-2, 2015
Focusing on contemporary independent film practices, this workshop aims to foster dialogues between film and media scholars, practitioners, and activists from East and Southeast Asia to explore parallels, intersections, and future collaborations in the Trans-Asian context.
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Personal Digital Archiving Conference 2015
April 24-26, 2015
Many of us now document our lives digitally. As these collections grow, so do the challenges involved in their management, preservation and use.
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Cinema Studies Pecha Kucha Night
Pecha Kucha is a presentation format where each presenter shows exactly 20 slides for 20 seconds each. This will be a fun, informal way for multiple Cinema Studies students to quickly share their research and interests with the department community
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From Community to Network to Atopia: A Talk by Seung-hoon Jeong
April 15, 2015
This talk surveys different ways in which global cinema reflects bio-political, economic, and ethical relationships, and reconsiders the notion of community in its catastrophic deadlock by proposing alternative models.
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Expanding the Experimental: A Screening and Discussion
April 8, 2015
Cinema Studies PhD candidates present three short films that challenge disciplinary boundaries between 'experimental cinema' and other moving-image contexts.
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2015 MIAP M.A. Thesis Presentations
March 30 - April 3, 2015
Students in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) Program in the Department of Cinema Studies present their final capstone projects.
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Cinema Studies Careers Outside Academia
March 25, 2015
Join us for a panel discussion with industry professionals and graduates from the Department of Cinema Studies as they offer advice on navigating NYC's film and media world.
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Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations - Presentation by Tami Williams
March 4, 2015
Tami Williams is assistant professor of English and film studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the author of Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations.
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Encrucijadas/Encruzilhadas 2015 - Dialogues for Latin American Cinemas
February 27-28, 2015
Encrucijadas will gather scholars, curators, filmmakers, and graduate students working on Latin American cinema in the New York area. This year's theme is Corpos / Corpus / Corpses
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Revisiting Kinugasa, or Versatility - a talk by NYU Visiting Professor Darrell Davis
February 25, 2015
Best known for his avant-garde PAGE OF MADNESS (1926), Kinugasa Teinosuke is a major, yet puzzling figure of Japanese cinema.
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NYU Cinema Studies Student Conference 2015
February 20, 2015
This year's theme is Shock Value: Experience, Affect, & the Moving Image. Keynote Speaker: Eric Schaefer, Emerson College.
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Freedom Summer: a screening and discussion with filmmaker Stanley Nelson
February 18, 2015
This film looks back on the ten-week summer of 1964 that saw more than 700 student activists and volunteers join the fight for equality in the state of Mississippi.
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Dance and the Documentary: Chantal Akerman's One Day Pina Asked...
February 11, 2015
A screening and panel discussion with Allyson Green (Dean of Tisch School of the Arts), Antonia Lant (Chair of Cinema Studies), Paul Galando (Director of Dance and New Media), & Brighid Greene (Programmer at Dance Films Association).
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Gender Reel NYU: Transgender Film Festival
February 7-8, 2015
The Department of Cinema Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts welcomes Gender Reel for a two-day transgender film & performance art festival.
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Unsung Auteurs: American Female Filmmakers of 1930s-1940s
February 4, 2015
Cinema Studies PhD students Tanya Goldman and Rochelle Miller and media archivist Kimberly Tarr (NYU Libraries) explore the creative work of three women operating in very different spheres of filmmaking during the 1930s and 40s.
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