Month: October 2024
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Prof. Soraya Murray Quoted in NY Times about Female Figures in Video Games
Film and Digital Media Professor Soraya Murray was recently quoted in the New York Times. In the article, Prof. Murray discusses how the industry is moving towards a more diverse-leaning landscape in modern video games in the face of critics claiming that female characters in video games are becoming “defeminized.” “Those with vitriol against how…
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Visiting Artist Workshop with Mary Jirmanus Saba
Date: Monday, November 18, 2024Time: 4:00pm-:7:00pmLocation: Communications Building, Room 139 Please RSVP before attending – send your RSVP to Prof. Irene Lusztig ilusztig@ucsc.edu By request, please wear a mask to this event. In this workshop, filmmaker and scholar Mary Jirmanus Saba will discuss her recent work on films made in the aftermath of the Arab…
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“A Feeling Greater Than Love” with Mary Jirmanus Saba
Public screening and conversation with Professor Peter Limbrick, author of Arab Modernism as World Cinema (2020). Presented by the Film and Digital Media Department, the Center for the Middle East and North Africa, and the Center for Documentary Arts and Research. Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2024Time: 7:00pmLocation: Communications 150 (Studio C) By request, please wear…
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Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium: Dr. Theodore S. Gonzalves
“Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects” with Dr. Theodore S. Gonzalves (Curator, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History) Date: Friday, October 25, 2024Time: 1:30pm-3:15pmLocation: Porter College, D245 Author and editor Dr. Theodore S Gonzalves discusses Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects (APA101), a book featuring vibrant full-color illustrations of objects that…
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Prof. Gustavo Vazquez’s Film Awarded Best Documentary at Cittadella Geo Film Festival
Film and Digital Media Professor Gustavo Vazquez received the Golden Earth Award for Best Documentary at the Cittadella Geo Film Festival in Cittadella, Italy. Prof. Vazquez’s film, Los Guardianes del Maíz (The Keepers of Corn), tells the story of indigenous famers in Oaxaca, Mexico and their efforts to keep the tradition of seed exchanges alive…
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Gustavo Vazquez: Los Guardianes del Maíz (The Keepers of Corn)
About (taken from: losguardianesdelmaiz.com/story): “For thousands of years, native farmers in the Mexican state of Oaxaca have kept alive a system of seed exchanges that, like oral almanacs, have brought the collective knowledge of traditional milpa farming methods into the Twenty-first Century.” Los Guardianes del Maiz tells the story of the seed exchange at Ejido…