Year: 2024
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Jennifer Taylor: For the Love of Rutland
FOR THE LOVE OF RUTLAND explores the complex life of a blue-collar New England town as a partial microcosm/mirror of our current national and global reality. An attempt to bring new life to an economically struggling and overwhelmingly white community – through refugee resettlement – unleashes deep partisan rancor and opens new fissures within the city’s…
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Irene Lusztig: RICHLAND
About: Built by the US government to house the Hanford nuclear site workers who manufactured weapons-grade plutonium for the Manhattan Project, Richland, Washington is proud of its heritage as a nuclear company town and proud of the atomic bomb it helped create. RICHLAND offers a prismatic, placemaking portrait of a community staking its identity and…
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L.S. Kim: Maid for Television
Race, Class, Gender, and a Representational Economy MAID FOR TELEVISION examines race, class, and gender relations as embodied in a long history of television servants from 1950 to the turn of the millennium. Although they reside at the visual peripheries, these figures are integral to the idealized American family. MAID FOR TELEVISION tells the stories…
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Peter Limbrick: Arab Modernism as World Cinema
The Films of Moumen Smihi Peter Limbrick’s new book, Arab Modernism as World Cinema, explores the radically beautiful films of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi, demonstrating the importance of Moroccan and Arab film cultures in histories of world cinema. Addressing the legacy of the Nahda or “Arab Renaissance” of the nineteenth and early twentieth century—when Arab writers and artists reenergized…
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Martin Rizzo-Martinez: We Are Not Animals
Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California Winner of the 2023 John C. Ewers Award from the Western History Association By examining historical records and drawing on oral histories and the work of anthropologists, archaeologists, ecologists, and psychologists, We Are Not Animals sets out to answer questions regarding who the Indigenous people in the…
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Alumna Janet Chen’s Film Has World Premiere at Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
Janet Chen’s Film, Asian Bitches Speak, will have its world premiere at the 40th VC Film Festival/Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2024 on May 5, 2024. It tells the story of a mother-daughter journey that explores mental health and healing from intergenerational trauma amidst the rise in anti-Asian hate. The film was prompted by…
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Sesnon Salon
On every third Thursday, the Division of Arts hosts festive salons at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery. These salons celebrate each Arts department and programs latest and greatest work by current faculty and students. Join us for our Film and Digital Media Sesnon Salon:
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Visiting Artist Series
Every quarter, we invite a visiting artist to meet with students, lead workshops, and hold a public screening of their work with Q&A. For our 2024-25 Visiting Artist series, we present:
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Wednesday Night Cinema Society
Join us every Wednesday for an evening of films and videos, curated by our graduate students. Cinema Society meets every Wednesday during the quarter at 7pm in Communications 150 (Theater C). Check the FDM Events google calendar for specific dates.
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Lalu Özban’s Film in SF Urban Film Festival’s Trans World-Building
The Neighbour, a film produced by Lalu Ozban, Ph.D. Candidate in Film and Digital Media (designated emphasis in Feminist Studies; designated emphasis in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies) and directed by Cedoy, was recently featured as part of the San Francisco Urban Film Festival’s Trans World-Building event at the Tenderloin Museum. Trans World-Building was curated by Kaiya Gordon (UCSC…
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PhD Candidate Allen Riley’s VIDEOFREAK on Display at the Museum of the Moving Image
Allen Riley has his video installation and arcade game Videofreak on display at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NY through September 8, 2024. Videofreak reimagines the arcade game experience by emphasizing the art of video manipulation over traditional gameplay elements like scorekeeping and end goals. Inspired by the participatory ethos of the Portapak-wielding Videofreex art collective…
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Dean Celine’s 80 YEARS LATER Screening at American Library Association National Conference
Dean Celine’s film 80 YEARS LATER was recently selected to screen at the American Library Association National Conference in San Diego on June 30. The ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition brings together thousands of librarians and library staff, educators, authors, publishers, friends of libraries, trustees, special guests, and exhibitors to the world’s largest library event.