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Rethinking Socialist Environmental Media Speaker Series: Soyoung Kim
Join us for a talk “Liquid Hauntology: Revisiting Exile Trilogy through the Collective You and Me (Ты и Я)” with Prof. Soyoung Kim (Filmmaker/artist, Professor of Cinema Studies, Korea National University of Arts) Date: Thursday, February 6Time: 3:30pm-5:30pmLocation: Communications Building, Room 139 Organized by: Yiman Wang (Professor, Film and Digital Media), Boreth Ly (Associate Professor,…
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“How to Have An American Baby” with Leslie Tai
Public screening and conversation with Professor Yiman Wang. Presented by the Film and Digital Media Department. Date: Monday, February 10, 2025Time: 7:00pmLocation: Communications 150 (Studio C) Watch the trailer at https://www.americanbabyfilm.com/ DESCRIPTION: Tracing the underground birth tourism industry from Beijing and Shanghai to Los Angeles, HOW TO HAVE AN AMERICAN BABY is a feature-length creative…
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“What About China?” Screening and Conversation with Director Trinh T. Minh-ha
Date: Friday, December 6Time: 5:00pm-8:00pmLocation: Communications Building, Room 150 (Studio C) In the politics and ethics of representation, the challenge of speaking nearby (rather than merely “about”) takes on a new lease of life with each film made. To refuse the readymade of packaged specialized knowledge is to keep open that relation of infinityWhen within…
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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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Q&A with Andrea Alarcón
Join us for a Q&A with Producing & Artist Manager with the Sundance Documentary Film Program, Andrea Alarcón. Bring your questions! Open to all Film and Digital Media students. Date: Friday, October 11, 2024Time: 5:00pmLocation: Communications Building Room 150 (Theater C)
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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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Film and Digital Media Fall Welcome
Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2024, 10:00amLocation: Communications Building Room 150 (Theater C) and via Zoom This is your opportunity to meet with faculty, learn about their research interests, and find out more about their courses for the year. An overview of the film and digital media program, including major requirements, will be given by our faculty. All…