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PAST FILM EVENTS
Spring
2008
Friday, February 22--POSTPONED
Screening and discussion of
Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000)
Introduced by Professor Heather Hendershot
6:30pm, DSC Lounge (Room 5414)
Sponsored by the Cinema Studies Group
Friday,
March 21
CUNY Film and Media Lecture Series
"The
First Holocaust Film? Aleksander Ford's Vernichtungslager
Majdanek [the Cemetery of Europe] (November 1944)"
Professor Stuart Liebman
Department of Media Studies
& Coordinator, Film Studies Program,
Queens College & Ph. D. Programs in Art
History & Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center
3:30-5:30pm, Room C-419
Sponsored by the Film Studies Certificate Program
Reservations: Paula Massood
Thursday
& Friday, April 10-11
Framed: Delimiting the Film Image
A CUNY Graduate Center Interdisciplinary Conference
Details TBA
April 10: 6:30-pm, Segal Theatre
April 11: 9:00am-5:30pm, Room 9206
9:00am-5:30pm, Skylight Room (Room 9100)
Sponsored by the Film Studies Certificate Program and the Cinema Studies
Group
Information and
CFP
Friday,
April 11
Film and the Art of Persuasion:
A Screening of Three Rare Films
6:30pm, Segal Theatre
Sponsored by the Film Studies Certificate Program
Fall
2007
Wednesday,
September 26
Screening of The Exorcist
Introduced by Professor Edward Miller (Media Studies, College of Staten
Island)
This is the first of monthly screenings sponsored by the newly formed Cinema
Studies Group (CSG)
Reception and post-screening discussion follows
6:30 p.m. DSC Lounge (Room 5414)
Monday, October 29
Screening of Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1971)
Second of the CSG screenings this semester and a fine pre-Halloween
treat.
Refreshments provided
6:30 p.m. DSC Lounge (Room 5414)
Thursday,
November 8
Screening of Peau d'Ane [DONKEY SKIN] (Jacques Demy, 1971)
Starring Catherine Deneuve & Jean Marais
Introduced by Professor Amy Herzog (Cinema Studies,Queens)
Refreshments provided
6:30pm, DSC Lounge (Room 5414)
Sponsored by CSG
Friday, November 9
Films Lost and Found: The Women’s Film
Preservation Fund Tour
Films by Mary Ellen Bute, Gunvor Nelson, Storm de Hirsh, Maya
Deren and Jouse Alaimo, Judy Smith and Ellen Sorin
Panel discussion: Chair, Heather Hendershot, Coordinator, Film
Studies Certificate Program
Speakers: Drake Stutesman, Women’s Film Preservation Fund; Mary Ann Caws, English,
French, and Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center/ CUNY; Patricia
White, English and Film Studies, Swarthmore College
4:00 - 6:30 p.m., Martin E. Segal Theatre
Co-sponsored with the Film Studies and Women's Studies Certificate Programs,
Center for the Humanities and the Ph.D. Program in English
Monday,
December 10
Screening of Arthur (Steve Gordon, 1981)
Starring Dudley Moore and John Gielgud
Refreshments provided
6:30pm, DSC Lounge (Room 5414)
Sponsored by CSG
Spring 2007
Monday, March 5
After ‘68: French
Film, History, and Politics in the 1970's
Jean-Michel Frodon, world-renowned film critic and editor-in-chief of Cahiers
du Cinéma speaks with Lynn Higgins, Professor of French at Dartmouth
College and the author of New Novel, New Wave, New Politics: Fiction and
The Representation of History in Postwar France, about the aftermath of
the student uprising in 1968 and the culture of the 1970’s. Sam DiIorio
and Ivone Margulies from Hunter College will moderate; the evening kicks off
a month long film series at The Alliance Francaise on the French Seventies.
For more information see http://www.fiaf.org/.
Skylight Room, 6:30-8:00pm
Co-sponsored by The Alliance Francaise and the Film Studies Certificate
Program.
Friday,
March 23
CUNY Film and Media Lecture Series
Feng
Xiaogang and Chinese New Year Films
Professor Ying Zhu
Department of Media Culture
College of Staten Island
Zhu's
presentation compares Chinese blockbuster films, exemplified by Feng Xiaogang’s New Year films, with
Hollywood high concept blockbuster films. She discusses the gradual formation of Feng’s formula and compares his textual and marketing strategies with that of
Hollywood’s high
concept films and of Zhang Yimou’s martial arts epics. Zhu argues, on the one hand, that far from being lightweight
entertainment films, Feng Xiaogang’s New Year films have
captured the Chinese
imagination by bringing to the forefront many pressing contemporary social
issues. On the other hand, she observes that Feng Xiaogang’s New Year films defy the conventions of Hollywood blockbuster
films as well as those of Zhang Yimou’s martial arts blockbusters. The evolution of Feng’s New Year films in terms of
their textual and
marketing strategies, however, witnesses a gradual move towards a high concept
formula that is at the core of Hollywood and Zhang Yimou’s blockbusters.
Sponsored by the Film Studies Certificate Program
Room C-419, 3:30pm
Reservations: joemcel@aol.com
Friday,
April 13
CUNY Film and Media Lecture Series
Two Futures for Electronic Images, or What Comes After Photography?
Professor D. N. Rodowick
Visual & Environmental Studies
Harvard University
Since the 1990s, one often hears about the crisis in
photographic authenticity. However, we live not in a "post-photographic"
era, but in an age where photography and cinema have rapidly become both more
than themselves and something else entirely. The ethics of consumer
photography have been changed by digital devices in ways that are difficult
to identify and evaluate. And, as digital capture makes photography more and
more like information, and our experience of filmic duration disappears from
theatrical movie houses, film reappears in the art gallery and museum,
seeking out a new virtual life.
Here are two diverging directions for the virtual life of film
and two futures for the electronic image--as information and as art.
Sponsored by the Film Studies Certificate Program
Room C-419, 3:30pm
Reservations: joemcel@aol.com
Friday,
April 27
Panel Discussion
Queer Film: Sexuality and Cinematic Form
What is Queer Cinema? Is it identifiable strictly through
experimental aesthetics? Is documentary film queer? Is it possible for
narrative cinemas to be considered queer? Does the artificial divide between “experimental” and “narrative” merely lead to an
essentializing of identity that the very term “queer” seeks to disrupt? If queer cinema is
meant to explore a complex register of sexual experience, what
aesthetic form might it (should it?) most provocatively take?
This symposium addresses these questions of film form in relationship to
queer-sexual identity. From Lonesome Cowboys to Tongues Untied to
Hide and Seek to Watermelon Woman to Tropical
Malady to Desert Hearts to Brokeback Mountain the
way in which queer sexuality is expressed finds tremendous range through
cinematic form and content.
Panelists discussing these issues will include filmmakers and
scholars such as Su Friedrich, Barbara Hammer, Leah Gilliam, Rhea Combs, Jim
Hubbard, and David Gerstner (moderator).
A short presentation of clips from panelists' work will be screened.
Sponsored by the Film Studies Certificate Program
Segal Theatre, 6:30pm
Information: gerstner@mail.csi.cuny.edu
Thursday,
May 3
Chris Kraus
Gravity + Grace, Writing + Film
Narrating clips from her rarely-seen underground films of the 80s, writer
and filmmaker Chris Kraus describes the juncture in her theoretical fictions
between performance, high theory, reportage and low comedy. Kraus is the
celebrated author of I Love Dick, Aliens & Anorexia, Video
Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness and most recently, Torpor.
Her films include Gravity & Grace, How To Shoot A Crime, and The
Golden Bowl or Repression. She is a co-editor of Semiotexte
and is currently Visiting Professor in the Literature Department at UC San
Diego.
6:30 – 8:00pm, Martin E. Segal
Theater
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, PhD Program in English, and
Film Studies Certificate Program
Fall
2006
Thursday, September 14
Screening of the Academy Award nominated film Enron: The Smartest
Guys in the Room (2005), followed by
Q&A with director Alex Gibney.
Gibney is also producer and writer of numerous productions, including The
Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002).
Sponsored by the Film Studies Certificate Program
Segal Theatre, 6:30pm
Free & Open to the Public
Thursday, October 5
Screening of films by avant-garde artist Lawrence
F. Brose. Brose is the internationally acclaimed director of De
Profundis (1997), a hand-processed
film about Oscar Wilde, and Everbest, Virgil (1990), a film made in
collaboration with John Cage and other composers.
As Brose describes his work: "My film work is significantly informed by
experimental film traditions. The films are cinepoems which build on the
vertical layering of experiences rather than a more linear structure familiar
to the narrative form. They are invested in the exploitation of film as
material while employing an economy of idea and nuance. Many of my films have
investigated ideas of gender and sexuality along with an exploration of my
personal experiences with the AIDS crises. Currently my film work has shifted
to a critique of the social framings of sexuality and masculinity, fracturing
boundaries established by a conservative gay movement and giving voice to the
radical margins of sexual dissidence. I am currently engaged in projects
which investigate home movies and other culturally-produced images through
the lens of a queer theoretical perspective - intervening on the material of
the film to disrupt and examine the images both for critical and aesthetic
pursuits."
Sponsored by the Film Studies Certificate Program
Segal Theatre, 6:30pm
Free & Open to the Public
Wednesday,
October 11
Intimacy and Aesthetics: Video Artists in Conversation
Cheryl Donegan and Terence Gower
Cheryl
Donegan's preferred media are video and painting her recurrent points of
reference are film, MTV video, modern decor, and the mass media. Since her
first solo show in 1993 she has exhibited widely, in Europe as well as
North America. Terence Gower is a Canadian conceptual artist who has created
numerous projects and exhibitions addressing the problem of display in
galleries and museums in a variety of media. He lives in New York and Mexico
City and has exhibited his work in the US, Canada, Europe and all over Latin
America.
Segal
Theatre, 6:30-8:00pm
Series organized by FSCP student Rebekah Rutkoff
Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities & the Film Studies
Certificate Program
Wednesday,
October 18
Andew W. Mellon Seminars in the Humanities: Aftermaths
Documenting Catharsis: A Film Series on
War and Reckoning
Let There Be Light
Produced in 1946 for the U.S. government by John Huston, this short
propaganda film, commissioned to show the Army’s care for traumatized
soldiers, was taken out of circulation for 35 years, right before its first
public screening, on account of its shocking images of trembling, paralyzed,
and depressed young veterans. Meg McLagan, who is currently co-directing a
documentary film about a group of American female soldiers who served in
Iraq, will discuss her own experiences reckoning with war in film.
Segal Theatre, 6:30-8:00pm
Series organized by Professor Ivone Margulies
Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities & the Film Studies Certificate
Program
Thursday, October 26
Andew W. Mellon Seminars in the Humanities: Aftermaths
Documenting Catharsis: A Film Series on
War and Reckoning
S21: The Khmer
Rouge Killing Machine (Rithy Panh, 2003)
In this rarely screened documentary from Cambodia, the filmmaker brings twelve
people to the very site where more than 17000 people were tortured and killed
in the mid-70’s. Two survivors and a dozen former Khmer Rouge fighters -
prison guards, interrogators, a doctor and a photographer, confront each
other, with the perpetrators re-enacting some of the horrors to which they
contributed, in what is now a genocide museum.
Segal Theatre, 6:30-8:00pm
Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities & the Film Studies
Certificate Program
Friday November 3
CUNY Film and Media Lecture Series
"The Economics of French Cinema"
Professor Jonathan Buchsbaum
Department of Media Studies
Queens College
Laurent Creton
Author, Economie du cinéma: Perspectives stratégiques (1995)
Sponsored by the Film Studies Certificate Program
Room C-419, 3:00pm
Reservations: joemcel@aol.com
Wednesday,
November 8
Intimacy and Aesthetics: Video Artists in Conversation
Constance De Jong and Tony Oursler
Constance
DeJong is an award-winning author who has made performance a natural
extension of her writing. Since 1977 she has toured extensively in the U.S., Canada, and
Europe presenting oral adaptations of her published texts. Tony Oursler is an
internationally renowned video artist. His work has appeared at the
Pompidou Centre, the Whitney Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A., and
many other galleries throughout the world.
Segal Theatre, 6:30-8:00pm
Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities & the Film Studies Certificate
Program
Thursday, November 9
Andew W. Mellon Seminars in the Humanities: Aftermaths
Documenting Catharsis: A Film Series on
War and Reckoning
The Emperor’s
Naked Army Marches On (Kazuo Hara, 1986)
Kazuo Hara,
filmmaker provocateur, takes a ride in 1987 with an obsessive 65 political
activist Kenzo Okuzaki recording, and perhaps encouraging his crusade to get
the Army to confess to crimes of more than forty years ago. Okusaki travels
throughout Japan visiting the families of former war comrades. He also knocks
at the doors of retired sergeants and commandants to force them to confess to
why two of his friends were executed 23 days after the end of the war. They
might have been killed to cover up cannibalist practices that took place in
New Guinea at the time, or even to provide themselves as meat to starving
comrades.
Segal Theatre, 6:30-8:00pm
Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities & the Film Studies
Certificate Program
Friday, November 10
Memories of Modernity: An International Conference on Hispanic
Cinemas
Keynote Speaker: Paulo Antonio Paranagua
Paranagua, a Paris-based historian, is the editor of Mexican Cinema
(1996) and frequent contributor to Framework and Positif.
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Hispanic Languages &
Literatures/SUNY @ Stony Brook and the CUNY Film Studies Certificate Program.
Information
Skylight Room (Room 9100), 6:00pm
Friday,
November 17
CUNY Film and Media Lecture Series
"Becoming Fluid: Musical Spectacle in the Films of Esther Williams and
Tsai Ming-liang"
Professor Amy Herzog
Department of Media Studies
Queens College
Sponsored by the Film Studies Certificate Program
Room C-419, 3:30pm
Reservations: joemcel@aol.com
SPRING
2006
CUNY
Film and Media Lecture Series
Sponsored by the Film Studies Certificate Program at The Graduate Center
Friday,
February 24, 2006, 3–5pm,
Room C-419
"Culture
of Complaint: Media and Censorship"
Cynthia Chris
Department of Media Culture
College of Staten Island
Friday, March 24, 2006, 3–5pm,
Room C-419
"African-American
Aesthetics and the City:
Picturing the BlackBourgeoisie in Harlem"
Paula
Massood
Department of Film
Brooklyn College
Friday, April 28, 2006, 3–5pm,
Room
C-419
Symposium
on Film, Media, and Methodology
William
Boddy, Baruch College, Moderator
Alison Griffiths, Baruch College
Heather Hendershot, Queens College
Ivone Margulies, Hunter College
Nicole Fleetwood, Rutgers University
Dana Polan, New York University
Friday-Saturday, May 5-6, 2006
AIZEN International Conference on Realism and
Naturalism in Film Studies to be held at the CUNY Graduate Center
Sponsored by AIZEN (International Association devoted to Zola and
Naturalism), the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature and the Film Studies
Certificate Program
Conference Program
Hotel information
FALL
2005
CUNY
Film and Media Lecture Series
Sponsored by the Film Studies Certificate Program at The Graduate Center
Friday,
October 7, 2005, 3–5pm, Room C-419
"Snap!
Dance!: The Defiant Aesthetic Form of Marlon Riggs (Working Notes)"
David Gerstner
Department of Media Culture
College of Staten Island
Friday,
November 18, 2005, 3–5pm,
Room
C-419
"Things
Not Meant to Be Seen:
Documentary Ethics and the Maysles Brothers"
Joe
McElhaney
Film & Media Department
Hunter College
Friday, December 16, 2005, 3–5pm,
Room
C-419
"Mental
Images: The Dramatization of Psychological Disturbance"
Zoe
Beloff
Department of Media Studies
Queens College
SPRING
2005
The CUNY Film and Media Lecture Series
Sponsored
by the Film Studies Certificate Program at the Graduate Center
March
4, 2005, 3–5pm, Room 5109
"Automatic
Cinema and Illustrated Radio: Multimedia in the Museum"
Alison
Griffiths
Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Baruch College
April 15, 2005, 3–5pm,
Room 4116
"Serial
Monologues: The Staging of Resistance in Modern Cinema"
Ivone
Margulies, Associate Professor, Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter
College
May 6, 2005, 3–5pm,
Room TBA
POSTPONED TO FALL 20O5
"The
Queer Frontier: Vincente Minnelli’s Cabin in the Sky"
David
Gerstner, Assistant Professor, Department of Media Culture, College of Staten
Island
Spring
2004
March
15-26, 2004
Where Do We Go From Here? Hollywood from World War II to
the Cold War
A Film Series
Fall
2003
November
19, 2003
An Evening of Short Films
SPRING
2003
April
15, 2003
In Search of Bessie Smith
FALL
2002
December
5, 2002
A Conversation with David Thomson
SPRING
2002
June 4,
2002
Gregg Bordowitz's Habit: Sreening and Discussion
April
11-May 16, 2002
Steinbeck Film Festival: A Centennial Celebration
April
30, 2002
Film Culture Past & Present: In Honor of Stanley
Kauffmann
April
24-26, 2002
Chinese Film and Cross-Cultural Understanding
February
26, 2002
Filmmaking in the People's Republic of China Today:
A Roundtable Discussion
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