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Visual & Media Cultures and Colloquia: Yiman Wang
“Of Science and Propaganda: Experiments with Revolution in Mao’s China” Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2026Time: 4:00pm-5:30pmLocation: Porter College, D245 Science, especially everyday popular science in Mao’s China, could be understood as grandiose and banal experiments conjoining socio-political revolution, authority legitimization with cinematic education, and with laboratory and field research. Science education and “thought” (re)education went…
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Processing Pleasure: Public Talk and Discussion with Dr. Patrick Keilty
This event is sponsored by the Film and Digital Media Department. Date: Tuesday, January 27th, 2026Time: 5:00pm-6:30pmLocation: Communications Building Room 150 (Studio C) This talk examines the early history of electronic payment processing, as told by the engineers who developed the technology in the 1980s. Struggling to find a suitable customer for the invention, they…
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QUEER/TRANS PERFORMANCE: A Film Series
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL! Date and Time: Mondays at 7:00pmLocation: Communications Building Room 150 (Studio C) Come watch classic and contemporary films about queer and trans performance. These films are key texts for THEA 161M: Sexuality, Gender, Drama & Performance, taught by Prof. Ochoa. We’ll be screening and discussing them in community, so come…
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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 (Studio C). Check the FDM Events google calendar for specific dates.
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“Third Act” with Tadashi Nakamura
Presented by the Film and Digital Media Department. Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2026Time: 7:00pmLocation: Communications Building, Room 150 (Studio C) DESCRIPTION: Generations of artists call Robert A. Nakamura “The Godfather of Asian American film,” but his son, Tad, calls him Dad. As the filmmaking son of a filmmaking legend, Tad uses the lessons his dad…
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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. All Public Screenings will take place in the Communications Building, Room 150 (Studio C) For our 2025-26 Visiting Artist series, we present:
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Social Documentation MFA Thesis Screening
Presented by the Film and Digital Media Department Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2025Time: 7:00PMLocation: Del Mar Theatre, Downtown Santa Cruz The annual SocDoc film screening showcases the work of the Arts Division’s Social Documentation (SocDoc) M.F.A. students. Each student presents a 20-minute film, followed by a Q&A. The 2024-25 cohort, including Em Butler, Catalina Jeanneret Calderon, Matte Hewitt, Jiayi…