Recent Visiting Artists and Filmmakers

Making Movies is Hard Fun: Building Tools for Telling Stories

Talk by Michael B. Johnson, head of Moving Pictures Group at Pixar.
Porter College Distinguished Visiting Lecturer

Technologist Michael B. Johnson’s group is responsible for the design, implementation and support of the pre-production pipeline for Pixar features and shorts. He will share his perspective on the Pixar film-making process, where a cast of characters contribute, from creative story tellers who want things they don't understand how to make, to flexible technologists who are more concerned with empowering their users than winning an argument with them.

George Kuchar’s Comedy of the Underground and Beyond

Film & Digital Media Visiting Artist Series - Film Theory and Praxis Visiting Artist George Kuchar George Kuchar ranks among the most exciting and prolific independent videomakers working today. With his homemade Super-8 and 16mm potboilers and melodramas of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, he became legendary as one of the most distinctive and outrageous American underground filmmakers. Always working within the constraints of minuscule budgets and nonprofessional actors, Kuchar’s inspiration comes from classic Hollywood melodrama.

 

Tails of Labor and Value: What Works in Pixar Films

Screening of Monsters, Inc with excerpts of Ratatouille, and lecture by Caetlin Benson-Allott, UCSC Film and Digital Media Department, expert on digital effects.

Pixar is known for its revolutionary labor practices, but it also creates innovative representations of work in its films. Close attention to Monsters, Inc. and Ratatouille in particular reveals that Pixar actually has a lot to say about what it means to be productive in the 21st century.
This event is free and open to the public.

Film Screening-"The Chelsea Girls"

A rare screening of Andy Warhol's film Chelsea Girls on 16mm.
Free and open to the public.

Film Screening-"Deliver" with director Jennifer Montgomery

The film will be introduced by director Jennifer Montgomery, with Q & A to follow the film.

Nollywood Film Festival

Isaac Moses and Nneka Isaac-Moses are the producers of Goge Africa, an award-winning television program that presents the rich cultural herit

Film Screening-"Anna May Wong - Frosted Yellow Willows: Her Life, Times and Legend"

Anna May Wong Photo, Courtesy of Elaine Mae WooQ&A with director E.M. Woo to follow film.
For more information and description of the film, visit: http://www.anna-may-wong.com/

Film Screening-Isaac Julien's FRANTZ FANON: BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASK (1996)

Issac JulienA rare screening of Isaac Julien's Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1996) with the filmmaker.
Open to all!

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My Mother's Garden, Screening and Discussion with Director Cynthia Lester

Screened at Slamdance, Silverdocs, Hotdocs, DocFest Sheffield, and the True/False Film Festival, My Mother's Garden documents how a mother’s hoarding disorder has affected her children, and the children’s eventual efforts to come to terms with it.