Cinema Studies Events - Spring 2019
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Screening: Hiding in Plain Sight: The Case of Gay Life
May 8, 2019
Screening of 'The Case of the Borrowed Baby (1962).' 50 min. With commentary by Drake Stutesman, Adjunct Professor of Cinema Studies (TSOA) and Costume Studies (Steinhardt), NYU. Offered in conjunction with Art After Stonewall, 1969-1989, on view at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, NYC, April 24–July 20, 2019; and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, 26 Wooster Street, NYC, April 24-July 21, 2019.
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Screening & Discussion: Ko I-Chen’s Blue Moon
May 3, 2019
The Cinema Studies Department is enthused to present a screening of Taiwanese filmmaker Ko I-Chen's experimental landmark, Blue Moon.
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Sol Worth, Film Studies and Inner-City Youths’ Filmmaking
May 1, 2019
Tracing the development of his research across these disparate contexts, this presentation considers how Worth’s thinking about film was entangled in various forms of cinematic practice, political activism, pedagogy and social therapy. A talk by Henning Engelke, Visting Scholar in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University.
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Stolen Time: Detention from Colnbrook to Manus Island
April 26, 2019
This event features screenings of two recent documentaries from within migrant detention centers, seeking to open a discussion about new fugitive pathways and emerging filmmaking practices in the face of militarized borders. Screenings include: Unkilled, Chapter 1 (David Aronowitsch, Hanna Heilborn, 2018, 8’) and Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time (Arash Kamali Sarvestani, Behrouz Boochani, 2017, 90’)
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Cultural Industries and Digital Platforms
April 26, 2019
A talk by David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds)
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Excavating Feminist Histories: Early Productions from Women Make Movies
April 24, 2019
Presentation on the early works produced by Women Make Movies featuring screening and discussion. Discussion moderated by Tanya Goldman (PhD candidate, Cinema Studies) with Women Make Movies co-founders Ariel Dougherty and Sheila Paige, and Dr. Alexandra Juhasz, Chair of the Film Department, Brooklyn College, CUNY.
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Asian Film and Media Symposium: Queer Migrations and Diasporic Intimacies
April 19, 2019
This one-day symposium asks how feminist and queer Asian migrant and diasporic visual cultures – from cinema to social media practices to independent games – betray and reimagine the intersecting axes of gender, race, sex, and the nation. The lineup brings together critics and makers of film history, game design, and media theory. Talks will be held purposefully short – 15min – and feature works in progress to allow for collective discussion.
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Inaudible Evidence: Counterforensic Listening in Contemporary Documentary Art
April 17, 2019
A talk by Pooja Rangan, Associate Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at Amherst College and Board President of the Flaherty.
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Possible Futures in Archives and Blockchain Technology
April 12, 2019
This roundtable discussion will bring together Maria Bustillos (Editor, Popula.com), Amy Whitaker (Assistant Professor, Art and Art Professions, NYU), and Finn Brunton (Assistant Professor, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, NYU) to discuss their blockchain-based work and research.
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The Black Experience in French Cinema - Film Festival & Conference
April 11-13, 2019
This three-day film festival explores changing representations of blackness in French cinema through a cross-disciplinary approach.
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A public lecture by Visiting Researcher in Cinema Studies, Lisa Parks.
April 10, 2019
A public lecture by Visiting Researcher in Cinema Studies, Lisa Parks.
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An Evening with André Novais Oliveira
April 5, 2019
Join us for a screening of three short films by André Novais Oliveira: Ghosts (Fantasmas, 2010, 11 min.), About a Month (Pouco Mais de um Mês, 2013, 24 min.), and Backyard (Quintal, 2015, 20 min.). Filmmaker in attendance.
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MIAP Thesis Week
April 3-5, 2019
Students in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program will present their M.A. thesis projects.
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CineCina Short Film Awards Nominees
March 27, 2019
Presented by CineCina Film Festival and the Asian Film and Media Initiative.
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Beyond the Nation: Latin American Cinemas Now with Filmmakers Leandro Listorti and Juan Soto
March 13, 2019
Screening followed by discussion with filmmakers, Fabio Andrade (PhD student, Cinema Studies), moderated by Juana Suárez (Director, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation).
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Cloud Policy: Analog Histories and Digital Futures
March 6, 2019
A talk by Scholar-in-Residence, Jennifer Holt (Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara).
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STICKY SHEDDING: EXORCISING TEENAGE MEDIA
March 1, 2019
An illustrated talk by Kristen Gallerneaux. Presented by the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture.
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Mom...I'm a Slayer: Coming Out in '90s Fantasy Television
February 27, 2019
Join us for a screening of Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s “Becoming Part II," and an evening of discussion surrounding Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Xena: Warrior Princess, and much more as we take critical looks at the coming out metaphors couched in 1990s American fantasy television. Post-screening panel with Heather Hogan (Autostraddle) and Kristin Russo (Buffering the Vampire Slayer, Everyone is Gay), moderated by Cinema Studies MA Student Shayna Maci Warner.
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Archival Worlds: Documentation, Preservation, and Digital Media in the Middle East
February 21, 2019
This round-table explores contemporary archival practices in and from the Middle East, focusing on organizations and institutions that utilize digital platforms to collect and preserve documentary media from historically marginalized worlds. Sponsored by: Dept. of Cinema Studies, Kevorkian Center, Center for Media Culture & History, Tisch Initiative for Creative Research.
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BÉTURE COLLECTIVE: Kayapó Filmmaking in the Amazon
February 20, 2019
Join us for a screening of films by indigenous Kayapó-Mebêngôkre filmmakers from the Béture Collective. Co-sponsored by the Center for Media, Culture, and History and the Department of Cinema Studies.
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The Re/Active Image
February 15-16, 2019
Join us for a weekend of conversation for the Annual Cinema Studies Student Conference. Featuring keynote speaker Wayne Hodge.
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Can Cognitive Surplus Exist in the Gig Economy?
February 13, 2019
A lecture on the impact of digital media on the arts by Paddy Johnson (founding editor, Art F City).
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Alternative Cinema Viewing: Questions of Scale, Artifice, Public Spaces and the Aesthetics of Shrinking Attention Spans
February 8, 2019
Artist-scholar in residence in Cinema Studies Laurie O'Brien is a multi-disciplinary artist working with video, installation, performance and animation, and creator of the Peephole Cinema.
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NYCDH: Multimedia Scholarship Workshop
February 7, 2019
A workshop led by Cinema Studies Assistant Professor Marina Hassapopoulou focusing on demonstrations and applications of easy-to-use tools for film/audiovisual media analysis. Co-sponsored by NYC Digital Humanities, as part of NYCDH Week.
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Get in to Get Out with Ed Guerrero
February 6, 2019
Join us as Cinema Studies Associate Professor Ed Guerrero discusses Jordan Peele's directorial debut, Get Out.
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Film restoration in Brazil: A Case Study of Joaquim Pedro de Andrade’s The Priest and the Girl (1965)
January 30, 2019
Screening introduced by professor Robert Stam (Cinema Studies, NYU) and Débora Butruce (Ph.D candidate, University of São Paulo, Brazil/Visiting Scholar, MIAP, NYU), followed by a discussion between her, who worked in this restoration project, and Fabio Andrade (Ph.D student, Cinema Studies, NYU).
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