Kelly Reichardt’s Film The Mastermind Will Premiere at Cannes
The Mastermind, a new film by S. William Senfeld Artist in Residence Kelly Reichardt, will premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival this month. Following an art thief in 1970s Massachusetts who plans his first heist, it stars Josh O’Connor and Alana Haim as well as alumna Gaby Hoffmann ’04.
Kelly Reichardt’s Film The Mastermind Will Premiere at Cannes
The Mastermind, a new film by S. William Senfeld Artist in Residence Kelly Reichardt, will premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival this month. The Mastermind is about an art thief in 1970s Massachusetts who plans his first heist. It stars Josh O’Connor and Alana Haim, as well as alumna Gaby Hoffmann ’04 as part of the film’s stellar ensemble cast.
Reichardt has taught in the Film and Electronic Arts program at Bard since 2006. Her last film, Showing Up, also premiered at Cannes and was named one of the top ten indie films of 2023 by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 2025 Guggenheim Fellowships to Bard College Assistant Professor of Photography Lucas Blalock ’02 and Bard College Visiting Artist in Residence Gwen Laster. Chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of nearly 3,500 applicants, Blalock, who teaches in the Photography Program, and Laster, who teaches in the Music Program, were tapped based on both prior career achievement and exceptional promise. Bard MFA alum Jordan Strafer ’20 was also named Guggenheim Fellow for 2025.
Two Bard College Faculty Members Named 2025 Guggenheim Fellows
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 2025 Guggenheim Fellowships to Bard College Assistant Professor of Photography Lucas Blalock ’02 and Bard College Visiting Artist in Residence Gwen Laster. Chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of nearly 3,500 applicants, Blalock, who teaches in the Photography Program, and Laster, who teaches in the Music Program, were tapped based on both prior career achievement and exceptional promise. Bard MFA alum Jordan Strafer ’20 was also named Guggenheim Fellow for 2025. As established in 1925 by founder Senator Simon Guggenheim, each fellow receives a monetary stipend to pursue independent work at the highest level under “the freest possible conditions.” Blalock, Laster, and Strafer are among 198 distinguished individuals working across 53 disciplines appointed to the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows.
“At a time when intellectual life is under attack, the Guggenheim Fellowship celebrates a century of support for the lives and work of visionary scientists, scholars, writers, and artists,” said Edward Hirsch, award-winning poet and president of the Guggenheim Foundation. “We believe that these creative thinkers can take on the challenges we all face today and guide our society towards a better and more hopeful future.”
In all, 53 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields, 83 academic institutions, 32 US states and the District of Columbia, and two Canadian provinces are represented in the 2025 class, who range in age from 32 to 79. More than a third of the 100th class of fellows do not hold a full-time affiliation with a college or university. Many fellows’ projects directly respond to timely themes and issues such as climate change, Indigenous studies, identity, democracy and politics, incarceration, and the evolving purpose of community. Since its founding in 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has awarded over $400 million in fellowships to more than 19,000 fellows. The 100th class of Fellows is part of the Guggenheim Foundation’s yearlong celebration marking a century of transformative impact on American intellectual and cultural life.
Lucas Blalock is a Brooklyn-based photographer whose work is in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Hammer Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Portland Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others. Recent solo exhibitions include Florida, 1989, at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York; Insoluble Pancakes, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels; and An Enormous Oar, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; recent group exhibitions include venues in Oslo, Miami, Moscow, Berlin, Beirut, Minneapolis, and New York, where his work was selected for the Whitney Biennial 2019. He and his art have been profiled in publications including Arforum, the New York Times, New Yorker, Art in America, Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, W Magazine, British Journal of Photography, and Time. He has published essays and interviews as author in the journal Objectiv, IMA Magazine, BOMB, Foam, and Mousse, among others. He previously taught at the School of Visual Arts; Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University; Sarah Lawrence College; and the MFA Program at Ithaca College. He also served as visiting lecturer on visual and environmental studies at Harvard University. He received his BA from Bard College and MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Gwen Laster is a nationally acclaimed musician who has been the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Jubilation Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Arts Mid Hudson, Lila Wallace, and the Cognac Hennessey 1st place Jazz Search. A native Detroiter, her creative influences come from the Motor City’s exciting urban and classical music culture. Laster started improvising and composing because of her parents’ love of jazz, blues, soul, and classical music, and her inspiring music teachers from Detroit’s public schools. Laster relocated to New York City after earning two music degrees from the University of Michigan. Laster is many things: A virtuoso violinist with exquisite taste. An adventurous composer, arranger and orchestrator. A classically-trained artist with a deep appreciation for America's musical history, and a scholar of African-American musical heritage. A socially conscious activist and educator who understands the power of music to reach and touch everyday people.
Professor Joshua Glick critiqued the movie Here in his recent article for the Los Angeles Review of Books. He considers the movie through the lens of its use of AI, finding that the film’s dependence on the technology mirrors “an embattled film and television industry in dire need of creative reinvigoration and struggling to find a path forward.”
Professor Joshua Glick Writes About AI in Film for the Los Angeles Review of Books
Associate Professor of Film and Electronic Arts Joshua Glick critiqued the movie Here in the Los Angeles Review of Books. He considers the movie through the lens of its use of AI, finding that the film’s dependence on the technology mirrors “an embattled film and television industry in dire need of creative reinvigoration and struggling to find a path forward.” Glick analyzes the film’s machine-learning AI, which lets Here represent thousands of years across time and de-age its two main actors: “while Here aimed to be a proof of concept for how AI could be ethically applied to a project at a moment when labor unions, cinephiles, and a wary public have risen up against it, the film once again exposed its fault lines.”
Filmmaker Ephraim Asili Named a 2025 United States Artists Fellow
Ephraim Asili MFA ’11, associate professor and director of film and electronic arts, has been selected as one of 50 artists to receive a 2025 United States Artists (USA) Fellowship. Each year, individual artists and collaboratives are anonymously nominated to apply by a geographically diverse and rotating group of artists, scholars, critics, producers, curators, and other arts professionals. USA Fellowships are annual $50,000 unrestricted awards recognizing the most compelling artists working and living in the United States, in all disciplines, at every stage of their career.
“My approach to filmmaking is both hybrid and experimental. My films often alternate between essayistic or observational documentary form, narrative fiction, and self-reflexive gestures which foreground how the film medium itself, and the filmmaker using it, frame lived experience,” says Asili.
Ephraim Asili is an African American artist and educator whose work focuses on the African diaspora as a cultural force. Often inspired by his quotidian wanderings, Asili creates art that situates itself as a series of meditations on the everyday. He received his BA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University and his MFA in Film and Interdisciplinary Art at Bard College. Asili’s films have screened in festivals and venues all over the world, including the New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, The Berlinale, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Asili’s 2020 feature debut The Inheritance premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival and was recently the focus of an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art where it is a part of their permanent collection. In 2021 Asili was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. During the summer of 2022 Asili directed a short film Strange Math along with the 2023 Men’s Spring/Summer fashion show for Louis Vuitton. In 2023, Asili was the recipient of a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and in 2024 Asili was awarded a grant from Creative Capital.
Sancia Miala Shiba Nash '19 and Drew K. Broderick MA ’19 of kekahi wahi also won a 2025 United States Artists fellowship. kekahi wahi was instigated in 2020 by filmmaker Sancia Miala Shiba Nash and artist Drew K. Broderick. The grassroots film initiative is committed to documenting transformations across the Hawaiian archipelago and sharing stories of the greater Pacific through time-based media.
Filmmaker Kelly Reichardt, Artist in Residence at Bard, in Conversation with Alum Connor Williams ’18 for Interview Magazine
Kelly Reichardt, S. William Senfeld Artist in Residence at Bard College, spoke with Bard alum Connor Williams ’18 for a profile in Interview Magazine. “Reichardt’s body of work is remarkable for its consistency in quality and creative vision,” Williams writes. “She simply hasn’t made a film that wasn’t great.” In conversation with Williams, Reichardt discusses what she’s learned from her first film jobs years ago, her long-lasting collaborative friendships, and introducing students to her understanding of the cultural and cinematic canon. “I just wouldn’t really be connected with that generation if I didn’t teach,” she said. “I like being around young people and being in the flow of that conversation.”
“What would be the Asili method?” Professor Ephraim Asili MFA ’11 Interviewed by ArtReview
“The first question they ask when you want to start making a film is: who is your target audience?” said Ephraim Asili MFA ’11, associate professor and director of film and electronic arts, in an interview with ArtReview. Touching on topics as broad as the history of the avant-garde and the three-act structure functioning as a “cage,” Asili was also asked what defines the “Asili method.” His answer was that it all came back to that question of audience and, for Asili, the desire to make movies that would please him as a viewer. “I want to make something to the best of my ability that is compelling to me, as compelling as I can make it for myself, and then I assume that it might be interesting to other people.”
Bomb Magazine Interviews Artist and Filmmaker Tiffany Sia ’10 about Her New Book, On and Off-Screen Imaginaries
Bard alumna Tiffany Sia ’10 thinks and works across text and film. Her newest book, On and Off-Screen Imaginaries, is a collection of six essays that grapple with the complexities of post-colonial experience. The first three essays focus on new Hong Kong cinema and examine the national security policies, censorship, surveillance that followed Hong Kong’s mass protests in 2019 and 2020. The second half of the book “abruptly drifts toward other geographies, specifically the US, as I challenge how dominant Asian American aesthetics conceive of a falsely unified imaginary of Asia and its politics,” says Sia. She reimagines the work of Vietnamese American photographer An-My Lê in one essay and the work of Taiwanese filmmaker King Hu in another. “The essays trace a shift in my focus beyond Hong Kong––toward the ‘elsewhere’ sites of the Cold War, such as Vietnam, Taiwan, and even Lithuania and Turkey, in brief mention––and facile East-West tensions to illuminate a lattice of North-South tensions and their vexing histories and politics,” says Sia, who recently won the prestigious 2024 Art Baloise Prize, which carries an award of approximately $33,400.
Two Bard College Graduates Win 2024 Fulbright Awards
Two Bard College graduates have won 2024–25Fulbright Awards for individually designed research projects and English teaching assistantships. During their grants, Fulbrighters meet, work, live with, and learn from the people of the host country, sharing daily experiences. The Fulbright program facilitates cultural exchange through direct interaction on an individual basis in the classroom, field, home, and in routine tasks, allowing the grantee to gain an appreciation of others’ viewpoints and beliefs, the way they do things, and the way they think. Bard College is a Fulbright top producing institution.
Sara Varde de Nieves ’22, who was a joint major in film and electronic arts and in human rights at Bard, has been selected for a Fulbright Study/Research Award to Chile for the 2024–25 academic year. Their project, “Regresando al Hogar/Returning Home,” aims to preserve the legacy of Villa San Luis, a large-scale public housing complex built in Las Condes, Santiago, Chile from 1971 to 1972. Through a multi-format documentary comprising interviews with former residents and project planners, archival documents, and footage of the current buildings, Varde de Nieves seeks to capture the collective memory of Villa San Luis’s original residents and planners. In executing this project, Varde de Nieves aims to expand the label of “heritage conservation” to include buildings and infrastructure that are not considered culturally significant as classic historical monuments and to make connections among narrative, memory, ephemera, and the historical archive. “I’m very excited to conduct in-person research on Villa San Luis, an innovative project that strove for class integration and high-quality construction. During my time abroad, I hope to foster long-lasting relationships and get acquainted with Chile's fascinating topography,” says Varde de Nieves.
While at Bard, Varde de Nieves worked as an English language tutor in Red Hook as well as at La Voz, the Hudson Valley Spanish language magazine. Their Senior Project, “Re-igniting the Clit Club,” a documentary about a queer party in the Meatpacking district during the 1990s, won multiple awards at Bard.
Jonathan Asiedu ’24, a written arts major, has been selected for an English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) Fulbright to Spain. His teaching placement will be in the Canary Islands. While in Spain, Asiedu plans to hold weekly poetry workshops in local cultural centers, communities, and schools. He hopes to invite the community to bring in their work or poems that speak to them, to share poets and writers and the ways they speak to us. “Studying poetry, learning pedagogical practices to inform my future as an educator, and mentorship opportunities throughout my college career have shaped both my perception of education and the work that needs to be done to improve students’ experiences within the educational system,” he says.
At Bard, Asiedu serves as a lead peer counselor through Residence Life, an Equity and Inclusion Mentor with the Office of Equity and Inclusion, admission tour guide, and works as a campus photographer. Moreover, this past year, he gained TESOL certification and has served as an English language tutor, as well as a writing tutor at the Eastern Correctional Facility through the Bard Prison Initiative. Asiedu, who is from the South Bronx, decided early on that he wanted to speak Spanish and has taken the Spanish Language Intensive at Bard, which includes four weeks of study in Oaxaca, Mexico. After the completion of his Fulbright ETA, he plans to pursue a master degree in education with a specialization in literature from Bard’s Master of Arts in Teaching program.
Three Bard students have also been named alternates for Fulbright Awards. Bard Conservatory student Nita Vemuri ’24, who is majoring in piano performance and economics, is an alternate for a Fulbright Study/Research Award to Hungary. Film and electronic arts graduate Elizabeth Sullivan ’23 is an alternate for a Fulbright Study/Research Award to Germany. Mathematics major Skye Rothstein ’24 is an alternate for a Fulbright Study/Research Award to Germany.
Fulbright is a program of the US Department of State, with funding provided by the US Government. Participating governments and host institutions, corporations, and foundations around the world also provide direct and indirect support to the program.
Fulbright alumni work to make a positive impact on their communities, sectors, and the world and have included 41 heads of state or government, 62 Nobel Laureates, 89 Pulitzer Prize winners, 80 MacArthur Fellows, and countless leaders and changemakers who build mutual understanding between the people of the United State and the people of other countries.
Bard College Student Melonie Bisset ’24 Wins Critical Language Scholarship for Foreign Language Study Abroad
Bard College senior Melonie Bisset ’24, a film and electronic arts major, has won a highly selective Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) for the 2024 summer session. CLS, a program of the US Department of State, provides recipients with overseas placements that include intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences designed to promote rapid language gains. Each summer, American undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at US colleges and universities across the country, spend 8 to 10 weeks learning one of 13 languages at an intensive study abroad institute. The CLS Program is designed to promote rapid language gains and essential intercultural fluency in regions that are critical to US national security and economic prosperity. The languages include Arabic, Azerbaijani, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu.
Bisset will study Portuguese at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The CLS Program in Rio de Janeiro provides a language learning environment designed to cover the equivalent of one academic year of university-level Portuguese study during an eight-week period. While in Brazil, Bisset will live with a local host family, eating breakfast with them each morning and spending free weekends with them. Host families help students integrate into daily life in Rio de Janeiro, introduce them to their extended networks, and create opportunities for them to practice their Portuguese in a more relaxed setting. Students also meet with a language partner several hours per week to practice conversational language skills and explore the city, planning their own activities with their language partners based on their interests.
Bisset writes that her interests have always been at the intersection of multiple cultures. That is where she feels most like herself—where she belongs. Accordingly, that is why Brazilian culture has always captivated her: its intense mix of diverse cultures. Aside from music and dance, she is also attracted to Brazilian filmmakers engaged in debates surrounding ecocinema, poverty, and multiculturalism. Her ultimate goal is to create a US-based nonprofit that facilitates cross cultural exchange and understanding through language and art.
“I am extremely grateful to receive the Critical Language Scholarship, and even more excited for the opportunity to study Portuguese in Rio de Janeiro this summer,” says Bisset. “As a multicultural-multiracial English, Mandarin, and Spanish speaker, a certified TESOL instructor, a filmmaker, an Argentine Tango dancer, a translator, and most importantly a story teller, my aspiration has always been to facilitate greater intercultural understanding through engagement with the arts and languages. I hope to establish my own organization dedicated to these dreams one day. This immersive language and cultural experience will undoubtedly have a lasting impact on my personal life and career development.”
The CLS Program is part of a US government effort to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages. CLS scholars gain critical language and cultural skills that enable them to contribute to US economic competitiveness and national security. Approximately 500 competitively selected American students at US colleges and universities participate in the CLS Program each year.
“Critical” languages are those that are less commonly taught in US schools, but are essential for America’s engagement with the world. CLS plays an important role in preparing US students for the 21st century’s globalized workforce, increasing American competitiveness, and contributing to national security. CLS scholars serve as citizen ambassadors, representing the diversity of the United States abroad and building lasting relationships with people in their host countries.
For further information about the Critical Language Scholarship or other exchange programs offered by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, please visit http://www.clscholarship.org/ and https://studyabroad.state.gov/.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Campus Center, Weis Cinema5:30 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 In the 21st century, fueled by technology, data, and algorithms, math determines who has the power to shape our world. The math documentary COUNTED OUT explains how, “…whether we know it or not, our numeric literacy—whether we can speak the language of math—is a critical determinant of social and economic power.”
Followed by Q&A with producer Andrea Chalupa Avery/Ottaway Auditorium7:30 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The year is 1933. Rumors of a government-induced famine in Soviet Ukraine reach the ears of Welsh journalist Gareth Jones. Eluding the authorities, Jones manages to clandestinely travel to Ukraine where he witnesses the atrocities of man-made starvation as all grain is sold abroad to finance the industrialization of the Soviet empire.
Join us for a film screening and Q&A.
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Avery Auditorium7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Acclaimed independent filmmaker Cynthia Madansky will screen five films from her "Radical Feminist" series. The films explore the legacy and work of renowned writers Lorraine Hansberry, Leyla Erbil, Katerina Gogou, Clarice Lispector, and Anna Alchuk.
Madansky's film projects more broadly engage with cultural and political themes, such as identity, nationalism, the transgression of borders, displacement, nuclear arms and war foregrounding the consequences of politics on the daily lives of individuals. Her award-winning films have been shown at numerous international venues including: the MoMA, The Berlin Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Cinema du Reel in Paris, Tehran Film Festival, and more. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Director Natalie Zimmerman and producer Guetty Felin in attendance! Avery Art Center; Avery/Ottaway Theater7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Oceania: Journey to the Center, a film by Natalie Zimmerman and Tekinati Ruka, begins on a coral atoll predicted to become uninhabitable by 2030 due to rising sea levels and temperatures brought by climate change. We are invited on a journey with a mother and her adult son as they strive to maintain their culture, freedom, and independence after decades of colonizing encounters. Join us for the screening!
Avery Art Center; Ottaway Theater in the Ottaway Film Center5:30 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Synopsis Filmmaker Jon-Sesrie Goff returns to the coastal South Carolina land that his family purchased after emancipation. His desire to explore his Gullah Geechee roots evolves into a poetic documentary weaving stories about generational wisdom, inheritance, faith, survival, and the tensions that define our collective American history, especially Black history. www.aftersherman.com
Bio Jon-Sesrie Goff is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and arts administrator. His creative practice explores the intersection of race, power, identity, gender, and the environment by unearthing the visceral representational value and authenticity behind the images propelled across varying diasporas. His body of work includes extensive institutional, community, and family archival research, visual documentation, and oral history. Jon engages with his work from the paradigm of a social change instigator. He studied sociology, economics, and theater at Morehouse College, completed his BA at The New School, along with an MFA from Duke University in experimental and documentary arts.
Friday, March 29, 2024
with filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk in person! Avery Auditorium5:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Set in 1990s Ukraine, this spanning coming-of-age story follows Tymophii and his friendship with a peculiar but intriguing older man whose entire life is shrouded in secrecy. Based on the autobiography "Who Are You?" by Artem Chekh, this drama—with glints of humor—presents a portrait of post-Soviet life that addresses the traumas of war by shuttling between the domestic and public, the personal and the communal. Critic Rich Cline writes, “Shot in superbly visual sets and locations, the film’s narrative unfolds in understated anecdotal scenes that feel bracingly true to life.”
Iryna Tsilyk is a Ukrainian film director and writer. She is the director of the award-winning documentary film The Earth is Blue as an Orange, which received the award for the best director at the Sundance Film Festival 2020, as well as dozens of other prestigious honors. Tsilyk is also the director of the fiction film Rock. Paper. Grenade based on the novel "Who Are You?" by Ukrainian writer and Iryna's husband Artem Chekh. Additionally, Iryna Tsilyk is the author of 8 books (poetry, prose, children's editions). Her poems and short stories have been translated into several languages and published in a number of international literary magazines and anthologies. During Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine, Iryna also began writing columns and essays for various international publications and has been engaged in cultural diplomacy for her country. Iryna and her family live in Kyiv. Iryna’s husband, Ukrainian writer Artem Ckekh, is serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Avery Art Center; Theater in the Ottaway Film Center5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Joana Pimenta is a filmmaker from Portugal, living and working in the United States and Brazil. Her latest film Dry Ground Burning, codirected with Adirley Queirós, tells the story of the Gasolineiras de Kebradas, a group of women from the periphery of Sol Nascente who steal oil and resist Bolsonaro’s presidency. Dry Ground Burning premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and screened at the New York Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival, among many others, receiving more than 30 awards around the world. It was a film of the year for publications such as Artforum, Sight and Sound, and Film Comment, and received glowing reviews in the New York Times, the Guardian, and Le Monde, among others. Dry Ground Burning had theatrical releases in the United States, France, Germany, Brazil, Portugal, and Argentina, among other countries. Pimenta teaches in the department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University, where she is director of graduate studies for Critical Media Practice and director of the Film Study Center.
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Avery Art Center; Ottaway Theater in the Ottaway Film Center5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Alison Nguyen is a New York-based artist whose work spans video, installation, performance, and sculpture. Her work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, MIT List Center for Visual Arts, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, the Everson Museum, the Dowse Art Museum, e-flux, the International Studio & Curatorial Program, op.cit., AC Gallery Beijing, Signs and Symbols KAJE, Ann Arbor Film Festival, International Film Festival Oberhausen, Channels Festival International Biennial of Video Art, True/False Film Festival, and Microscope Gallery. Nguyen received her MFA in visual art from Columbia University and her BA in literary arts from Brown University. She is a 2023–2024 artist in the Whitney Independent Studies Program.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Avery Art Center; Theater in the Ottaway Film Center5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Suneil Sanzgiri is an Indian-American artist, researcher, and filmmaker. Spanning experimental video and film, animations, essays, and installations, his work contends with questions of identity, heritage, culture, and diaspora in relation to structural violence and anticolonial struggles across the Global South. Sanzgiri’s films offer sonic and visual journeys through family history, local mythology, and colonial legacies of extraction in Goa, India—where his family originates. His first institutional solo exhibition Here the Earth Grows Gold opened at the Brooklyn Museum in October 2023. His films have circulate widely at film festivals and art institutions across the world including International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Doclisboa, Viennale, BlackStar Film Festival, Open City Docs, REDCAT, Menil Collection, Block Museum, MASS MoCA, moCa Cleveland, Le Cinéma Club, Criterion Collection, and many more.
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Avery Art Center; Theater in the Ottaway Film Center5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Hao Zhou is a filmmaker from southwest China. Exploring Queer relationships, diasporic themes, and traditionally overlooked spaces, Zhou’s films have been selected by the Berlinale, SXSW, Hong Kong, Sarajevo, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Images Festival, Outfest, and BlackStar, among others. Zhou’s feature The Night, which centers on Queer sex workers in China, premiered at the Berlinale and won top prizes at other international festivals. In 2021, Zhou’s experimental documentary Frozen Out won a Gold Medal at the 48th Student Academy Awards. “Here, Hopefully,” Zhou’s 2023 short documentary, follows a nonbinary aspiring American in Iowa (distributed by PBS). Zhou’s latest film, Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way, follows a genderqueer costume designer between Iowa and Guam.
An alum of Cannes’ Résidence and Berlinale Talents, Zhou has made work with funding from IF/Then × Hulu, Firelight Media/CAAM, Talents Tokyo/TOKYO FILMeX, Art With Impact, Frameline, Iowa Arts Council, and other organizations. They received an MFA in film and an MA in photography/intermedia from the University of Iowa.
Thursday, December 21, 2023
Rare 16mm prints from the Film & Electronic Arts collection Avery Art Center7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 In conjunction with the course "In the Archive," we present three rare 16mm prints from the collection of the FIlm & Electronic Arts program. The evening will include:
The Bond (1918) - approx 11 mins. A World War One propaganda film, produced by Chaplin at his own expense for the war effort.
“Chaplin Gets an Oscar” (1972) - approx 10 mins A black and white kinescope of Chaplin receiving an honorary Oscar at the 44th Academy Awards
The Gold Rush (1925/19??) - approx 55 mins A re-edited version of Chaplin's classic, with added commentary, music and sound effects.
Thursday, December 7, 2023
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Screening will include:
Cauleen Smith, Chronicle of a Lying Spirit (By Kelly Gabron), 6 mins, 1992, 16mm Lewis Klahr, Downs are Feminine, 9 mins, 1994, 16mm Martha Colburn, What’s On?, 2 mins, 1997, 16mm Martha Colburn, Evil of Dracula, 2 mins, 1997, 16mm Mary Beth Reed, Moon Streams, 6.5 mins, 2000, 16mm Jennifer Reeves, Fear of Blushing, 5.5 mins, 2001, 16mm
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Ottaway/Avery Auditorium10:10 am – 11:30 am EST/GMT-5 A talk by Svitlana Biedarieva
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Screening will include:
Jennifer Reeves, Configuration 20, 12 mins, 1994, 16mm Peter Hutton, Study of a River, 16 mins, 1996-97, 16mm Mark Lapore, The Five Bad Elements, 27 mins, 1997, 16mm Nathaniel Dorsky, Variations, 24 mins, 1998, 16mm (18 fps)
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Campus Center, Weis Cinema7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The Office of Title IX and Nondiscrimination, the Indigenous Students Association, and the Dean of Inclusive Excellence invite you to a screening and discussion of Hostiles, this Thursday, November 30th at 7:00 in Weis Cinema. There will be popcorn and a discussion after the film!
A brief trigger warning: the film contains strong violence.
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Screening will include:
L. Franklin Gilliam, Now Pretend, 11 mins, 1991, digital projection Peggy Ahwesh, The Color of Love, 10 mins, 1994, 16mm Martin Arnold, Alone: Life Wastes Andy Hardy, 15 mins, 1998, 16mm
Monday, November 13, 2023
With English Subtitles Campus Center, Weis Cinema5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The Hebrew Program announces the screening of Zero Motivation (2014) Weis Cinema – Monday, November 13, 2023 5:00–7:00 pm (with English subtitles) The story of Israeli female soldiers on a distant military base. Funny; sad; suspenseful; and not even a little sentimental.
Bard Film Faculty Friday Film Center; Ottaway Theater in the Ottaway Film Center4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5 OR119 (Peggy Ahwesh and Jacqueline Goss, music Zachary Layton), 2023, 59 minutes
A theoretical musical about the scientist and social thinker Wilhelm Reich, shot in his home and laboratory in Rangeley, Maine. In this playfully performative piece, the writing and work of Freud's favorite student are put to melody and into conversation with contemporary feminist writers.
Working with a group of friends and students in a largely improvisatory way, we shot in and around Reich’s home and laboratory in Rangeley, Maine. With OR119, we wish to inspire a revitalization of his primary tenet: "Love, Work, and Knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives.”
Friday, November 3, 2023
Bard Film Faculty Friday Film Center; Ottaway Theater in the Ottaway Film Center4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Carl Elsaesser (1988, USA) graduated from Hampshire College and the University of Iowa. He lives and works between mid-coast and interior Maine and Brooklyn, NY. In his work, Elsaesser mixes genres and materials to produce work that critically investigates the overarching presence of the historical without losing sight of individual experiences of human connection. His previous works have screened regularly at festivals and exhibitions including the Berlinale, the New York Film Festival, Cinema Du Reel, the National Gallery of Art, and the European Media Arts festival, where he won the EMAF Media Art Award of German Film Critics (VDFK) in 2022, among many others. He has won multiple grants and fellowships including a fellowship to the MacDowell residency and a Minnesota individual artist's grant.
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center7:00 pm – 8:45 pm EDT/GMT-4 Screening will include:
Morgan Fisher, Standard Gauge, 35 mins, 1984, 16mm Chick Strand, Artificial Paradise, 12 mins, 1986, 16mm Phil Solomon, The Secret Garden, 17 mins, 1988, 16mm
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Lecture by Yuliya Yurchenko Avery Art Center; Ottaway Theater10:10 am – 11:30 am EDT/GMT-4 Yuliya Yurchenko is a senior lecturer in political economy at the Department of Economics and International Business and a researcher at the Political Economy, Governance, Finance, and Accountability Institute, University of Greenwich, UK. She will speak about her book, Ukraine and the Empire of Capital (Pluto, 2017).
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Campus Center, Weis Cinema2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Filmmaker and cinematographer Kirsten Johnson presents her work, including excerpts for her films Cameraperson and Dick Johnson Is Dead.
Monday, October 16, 2023
Screening of the film Today; Q&A with Su Friedrich following Film Center; Ottaway Theater5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 TODAY A film by Su Friedrich 2022 / 57’ / USA / An Icarus Films release
“A virtuoso of clarity, Friedrich recasts the personal as political, makes the public curiously intimate.” — Manohla Dargis, Village Voice “One of the most accomplished avant-garde filmmakers of her generation, with a career of films and videos whose masterful construction and precise beauty attest to the positive aspects of her self-criticism.” —Ed Halter, Village Voice “On every level, Friedrich’s films are resonant with thought and craft.” —Scott MacDonald, Film Quarterly About the film A country vacation. A city cookout. The loss of a loved one. The spread of a pandemic. The brightness of flowers, both real and fake. Choice morsels of documentary footage from the neighborhood of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, are augmented with filmmaker Su Friedrich’s wry observations and witty on-screen text in this casual, engrossing portrait of daily life. About the director Pioneering filmmaker Su Friedrich has written, directed, photographed, and edited more than 25 original independent films. Her work has been the subject of 23 retrospectives, including at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Rotterdam Film Festival, the National Film Theater in London, and the First Tokyo Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. Friedrich’s films are in the permanent collections of institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Royal Film Archive of Belgium, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
Friday, October 13, 2023
Bard Film Faculty Friday Film Center; Ottaway Theater4:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 The Pearl journeys with four trans women as they find the courage to express their innermost identities. Over three years, secrets are revealed, relationships are shaken and solidified, new homes are made, and lives are transformed in this intimate portrait of love, fear, rejection, acceptance, and mutual support. Directed by Jessica Dimmock and Christopher La Marca.
Editor, Fiona Otway: BA Hampshire College; MFA Temple University. Fiona Otway is a documentary filmmaker whose work explores complex social issues, the intersection of power and storytelling, as well as how culture can be a catalyst for transformation. Her work has been seen in film festivals, theatrical release, and television broadcast all over the world. These projects have received numerous awards and honors, including three Academy Award nominations, multiple jury prizes at Sundance Film Festival, a Grierson award, a DuPont award, International Documentary Association awards, an International Federation of Film Critics award, nominations for Spirit Awards, Gotham Awards, British Independent Film Awards, and several nominations for Cinema Eye Honors. She has been a visiting artist in residence at Bard College since 2016. www.fionaotway.com
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Ottaway Theater 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
The film is a classic of war documentary cinema.
Trigger warning: sensitive themes and graphic war imagery.
The screening will be followed by a discussion moderated by Emile Feuser and Maria Tretiakova.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center7:00 pm – 8:45 pm EDT/GMT-4 James Benning, 11 x 14, 81 mins, 1977, 16mm
"James Benning has become famous for making movies which are at once exhibitions of landscapes or simply spaces and exhibitions of the guiding principles he entertained to structure his gaze – and accordingly the acousmatic space opened by this gaze. His method peaked with films like 13 LAKES or 10 SKIES. 11x14 is a reminder that the structural practice of Benning has a prehistory in his own work: The title refers to an American picture frame format, and therefore to the essential excerptedness of every image. But while Benning later on liked to highlight the frame by working with a fixed camera (and containing all the action within the potentially narrational space opened up in the image), in 11x14 he points towards the spaces between images – and even to the fantasies those images might trigger. Apparently random and meaningless scenes from the American midwest become parts of a possible story, which never actually comes around. The result is, as Benning claimed, practical theory, and at its best: 11x14 creates awareness of the ways movies are built, and it does so in brillantly intelligent and consequently often very funny way. (Bert Rebhandl, Viennale)
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Campus Center, Weis Cinema7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 The Open Society University Network and Bard's Center for Civic Engagement cordially invite you to join us for the first annual Civic Engagement Film Festival!
The festival is the culmination of several years of work by Bard College and our incredible OSUN partner campuses in which we will showcase student made documentaries that dive into global and local issues in connection to OSUN’s themes: Democratic Practice Sustainability and Climate Inequalities Human Rights Global Justice Global Public Health Arts and Society Liberal Arts and Sciences Our in-person film festival will be hosted in the Bard Campus Center’s Weis Cinema on April 15 from 7–9 pm.
Along with the short film screenings there will be food and beverages, a Q&A with the filmmakers, and a red carpet award ceremony! We really want to have fun and build community with this event.
This is an opportunity for your community of learners to discover the perspectives of our global partners and the unique problems right here in our backyard. It will also provide a chance to network and build connections with our talented student filmmakers and faculty.
Saturday, April 8, 2023
An Audiovisual Interactive Installation Avery Integrated Media Room8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come experience particle-wave duality and participate in the double slit experiment through interaction with our immersive installation built with projection and quadraphonic sounds. The music composition and generative visuals design incorporates mathematical functions that capture features of waves and particles, which are fundamental to quantum mechanics as well as our physical world.
Friday, April 7, 2023
An Audiovisual Interactive Installation Avery Integrated Media Room8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come experience particle-wave duality and participate in the double slit experiment through interaction with our immersive installation built with projection and quadraphonic sounds. The music composition and generative visuals design incorporates mathematical functions that capture features of waves and particles, which are fundamental to quantum mechanics as well as our physical world.
Thursday, April 6, 2023
An Audiovisual Interactive Installation Avery Integrated Media Room8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come experience particle-wave duality and participate in the double slit experiment through interaction with our immersive installation built with projection and quadraphonic sounds. The music composition and generative visuals design incorporates mathematical functions that capture features of waves and particles, which are fundamental to quantum mechanics as well as our physical world.
Monday, March 27, 2023
Fantastic Fungi is a consciousness-shifting film about the mycelium network that takes us on an immersive journey through time and scale into the magical earth beneath our feet, an underground network that can heal and save our planet. Olin Humanities, Room 1026:45 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 John Michelotti is the founder of Catskill Fungi which empowers people with fungi through outdoor educational classes, cultivation courses, mushroom art, and mushroom health extracts. John is a former President of the Mid-Hudson Mycological Association (MHMA). He serves as Medicinal Mushroom Committee Chair and is a Poison Control Consultant for the North American Mycological Association. He was chosen by the Catskill Center as a "Steward of the Catskills" for his contribution to the environment. John has had the pleasure to engage students from Elementary Schools to Colleges and Universities. He has taught at the New York Botanical Gardens for the past 8 years and regularly presents to Mycological Associations across the country. He served on the Mushroom Advisory Panel for Certified Naturally Grown to develop ecological standards in mushroom production across North America and has taught the Wild Mushroom Food Safety Certification Course to certify foragers to sell wild mushrooms to restaurants and supermarkets in 13 states. His goal is to educate and inspire people to pair with fungi to improve the environment, their health, and communities.
Catskill Fungi Catskill Fungi produces high integrity, triple-extracted health tinctures from mushrooms that are wild- crafted or grown near our family farm in the Catskill Mountains. We enjoy sharing our love of mushrooms on our guided mushroom walks, medicinal and cultivation workshops, and our fungi retreats. Catskill Fungi has a foundation of permaculture principles. This means the core of our business is about helping people and improving the planet through our work with mushrooms. We practice sustainable harvesting, leave-no-trace principles, and compassion for the environment. We aim to empower people to grow edible mushrooms as a sustainable source of fresh food, to heal themselves through utilizing health properties of fungi, and to explore the historical uses and present day innovations of these essential fungi.
Monday, March 6, 2023
Hosted by the Bard Farm Campus Center, Weis Cinema6:30 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The Bard Farm is hosting a screening of the film Gather, a documentary about Indigenous food traditions and food sovereignty. The screening will feature food provided by Bard’s Test Kitchen and a discussion afterward. Learn more by visiting gather.film!
Saturday, February 25, 2023
Campus Center, Weis Cinema7:00 pm – 9:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Weis screening of the movie Paris, Texas.
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Please join us for a screening of Three Summers, followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Sandra Kogut. See attached flyer for details.
Monday, February 6, 2023
Only 30 minutes and there'll be popcorn! Campus Center, Weis Cinema6:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Join us for a film screening about the Wooden Funeral Sculpture Program, an initiative supported by OSUN's Center for Human Rights and the Arts. This program aims to preserve the culturally significant Tomb House Statues in Kon Tum, Vietnam, and to introduce the value of this folk art to younger Indigenous people and the public. The program is currently seeking submissions from young artists for its Wooden Funeral Sculpture Exhibition in Vietnam in 2023.
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Avery Room 1167:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Part of a semester-long series presenting classics of American avant-garde cinema. All films will screen on their original 16mm format unless otherwise noted.
(nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton, 1971, 36 mins) 4891 (Toney Merritt, 1970, 5 mins) I Change I Am the Same (Alice Ann Parker aka Anne Severson, 1969, 1 mins) Dufus (Mike Henderson, 1970, 8 mins) Serene Velocity (Ernie Gehr, 1970, 23 mins) Near the Big Chakra (Alice Ann Parker aka Anne Severson, 1972, 17 mins, digital)
Please note that tonight's screening will include material some might consider sexually explicit. Approximate running time 106 mins.
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Chapel of the Holy Innocents6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EST/GMT-5 PASOLINI AND THE SACRED
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was an Italian filmmaker, poet, journalist, and public intellectual. Contradiction defined his life and work: he was a communist who rejected and was rejected by the Italian communist party, a gay man who refused to be a spokesperson for the gay community, a bourgeois intellectual who idealized the subproletariat. He was also an avowed atheist whose gaze was turned obsessively toward representations of the sacred. He sought out the sacred in lands far removed from his own—places like Yemen and Tanzania—while still hoping to find traces of it in the fast-paced world of his native Italy during the post-War economic boom. The figure of Christ was omnipresent in his works, as was the ambiguous specter of the Catholic Church. He invested in the sacred as a language, an aesthetic, a currency, a lost past, and a fading present. In this discussion, we will explore Pasolini’s complex, often contradictory views on the sacred.
Véronique Aubouy Olin Humanities, Room 1025:30 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 In this performance, I try to summarize Proust's beloved In Search of Lost Time with my own words, as a story of another time which reveals itself contemporary.
Véronique Aubouy has directed numerous short fiction films and documentaries (Albertine a disparu, 2018; Micaëla Henich, 2017; Je suis Annemarie Schwarzenbach, 2015, among many others). Since October 1993, she has been working on Proust Lu, and films people from all walks of life as they read Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, page after page, in a large array of settings. The first six volumes have been recorded to date, for a total of 140 hours and more than 1300 readers. Since 2011, Abouy has performed various versions of “Proust in One Hour”, in French and in English, in France, Italy, the UK and the USA.
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Avery Room 1167:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Part of a semester-long series presenting classics of American avant-garde cinema. All films will screen on their original 16mm format unless otherwise noted.
--- ------- (aka Short Line Long Line or Rock and Roll Movie, Thom Andersen & Malcolm Brodwick, 1966-67, 11 mins) Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1966-7, 45 mins) Hand Tinting (Joyce Wieland, 1967, 6 mins) T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G, (Paul Sharits, 1968, 12 mins) Surface Tension (Hollis Frampton, 1968, 10 mins) Hand Catching Lead (Richard Serra, 1968, 3 mins) Runaway (Standish Lawder, 1969, 6 mins)
Please note that some films will include extensive use of strobe effects. Total running time approximately 93 mins.
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Avery Room 1167:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Part of a semester-long series presenting classics of American avant-garde cinema. All films will screen on their original 16mm format unless otherwise noted.
Remembrance: A Portrait Study (Edward Owens, 1967, 6 mins, digital) Walden (Jonas Mekas, 1968-69, 180 mins)
Thursday, November 10, 2022
Avery Room 1167:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Part of a semester-long series presenting classics of American avant-garde cinema. All films will screen on their original 16mm format unless otherwise noted.
Schmeerguntz (Gunvor Nelson & Dorothy Wiley, 1965, 15 mins) The Flicker (Tony Conrad, 1966, 30 mins) Piece Mandala / End War (Paul Sharits, 1966, 5 mins) Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles Etc. (George Landow aka Owen Land, 1965-66, 4 mins) Third Eye Butterfly (Storm de Hirsch, 1968, 10 mins, double projection) Additional film TBA
Please note that tonight's screening will include extensive use of strobe effects. Approximate total running time 89 mins.
Thursday, November 3, 2022
Avery Room 1167:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Part of a semester-long series presenting classics of American avant-garde cinema. All films will screen on their original 16mm format unless otherwise noted.
Rat Life and Diet in North America (Joyce Wieland, 1968, 16 mins) Invocation of My Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger, 1969, 12 mins) My Name is Oona (Gunvor Nelson, 1969, 10 mins) Experiments in Motion Graphics (John Whitney, 1968, 12 mins) Permutations (John Whitney, 1968, 8 mins) Billabong (Will Hindle, 1969, 9 mins) Blazes (Robert Breer, 1961, 3 mins) 69 (Robert Breer, 1969, 5 mins) 70 (Robert Breer, 1970, 5 mins)
Bard's first ever student film showcase with Upstate films will be held November 2 at 7:45 pm at the Starr Cinema in Rhinebeck! It's your friends films on the big silver screen—come out and support 'em! The showcase will last approximately 69 minutes. How great is that? Seating is limited, so arrive 15–20 minutes early if you can. Entry is free. Yes, free. Can't wait to see you there!
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Avery Room 1167:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Part of a semester-long series presenting classics of American avant-garde cinema. All films will screen on their original 16mm format unless otherwise noted.
Please note that tonight's screening includes sexually explicit material. Approximate total running time 110 mins.
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Avery Room 1167:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Part of a semester-long series presenting classics of American avant-garde cinema. All films will screen on their original 16mm format unless otherwise noted.
Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger, 1949, 7 mins) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger, 1965, 4 mins) Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1963, 30 mins) Blow Job (Andy Warhol, 1963, 40 mins, 18 fps) Screen Tests, Reel 25 (Andy Warhol, 1964-66, 10 mins, 18 fps) #1 Beverly Grant (Hair) (1964) #2 Chuck Wein (1965) #3 Peter Hujar (1964) #4 Ed Hood (1966) #5 Ivy Nicholson (1964) #6 Jane Holzer (1964) #7 Brooke Hayward (1964) #8 Sally Dennison (1964) #9 Susanne de Maria (1964) #10 Ann Buchanan (1964)
Approximate total running time 90 mins
Thursday, October 6, 2022
Avery Room 1167:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Part of a semester-long series presenting classics of American avant-garde cinema. All films will screen on their original 16mm format unless otherwise noted.
The Last Clean Shirt (Alfred Leslie, 1964, 40 mins, digital) Meat Joy (Carolee Schneemann, 1964, 11 mins, digital scan of 8mm) Christmas on Earth (Barbara Rubin, 1963, 30 mins, double projection)
Please note that tonight's screening includes sexually explicit material. Total running time approximately 78 mins.
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Avery Room 1167:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Part of a semester-long series presenting classics of American avant-garde cinema. All films will screen on their original 16mm format unless otherwise noted.
Prelude to Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage, 1962, 25 mins) Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage, 1962, 13 mins) Mothlight (Stan Brakhage, 1963, 4 mins) Little Stabs of Happiness (Ken Jacobs, 1959-63, 15 mins) Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith, 1963, 43 mins) Filmmaker’s Showcase (Francis Lee, 1963, 3 mins)
Total running time approximately 103 mins
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Film screening and discussion with director Ghassan Halawani Upstate Films, Rhinebeck4:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 “Thirty-five years ago, I witnessed the kidnapping of a man I know. He has disappeared since. Ten years ago, I caught a glimpse of his face while walking in the street, but I wasn’t sure it was him. Parts of his face were torn off, but his features had remained unchanged since the incident. Yet something was different, as if he wasn’t the same man.”
Director Ghassan Halawani takes the viewer on a forensic chase, uncovering, layer by layer, the darkest chapters of Lebanese history on walls, in documents and urban architecture.
The screening will be followed by a conversation with Sabine El Chamaa, filmmaker and a current CHRA research fellow.
The event is free and open to the public.
Copresented with the Middle Eastern Studies Program at Bard.
Avery Room 1167:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Part of a semester-long series presenting classics of American avant-garde cinema. All films will screen on their original 16mm film format unless otherwise noted.
A Movie (Bruce Conner, 1958, 12 mins, digital) Early Abstractions (Harry Smith, 1947-47, 23 mins) What Is a Man? (Sara Kathryn Arledge, 1958, 10 mins) Heaven and Earth Magic (Harry Smith, 1959-61, 66 mins)
Total running time approximately 111 minutes
Thursday, September 15, 2022
Avery Room 1167:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Part of a semester-long series presenting classics of American avant-garde cinema. All films will screen on their original 16mm film format unless otherwise noted.
Geography of the Body (Willard Maas, 1943, 7 mins) Fireworks (Kenneth Anger, 1947, 20 mins) Visual Variations on Noguchi (Marie Menken, 1945, 4 mins) Hurry! Hurry! (Marie Menken, 1957, 3 mins) The End (Christopher MacLaine, 1953, 38 mins) Eaux d’Artifice (Kenneth Anger, 1953, 15 mins) Desistfilm (Stan Brakhage, 1954, 7 mins)
Total running time approximately 94 mins
Thursday, September 8, 2022
Avery, Room 116 Avery Art Center7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Part of a semester-long Thursday night series presenting classics of American avant-garde cinema. All films will screen on their original 16mm film format unless otherwise noted.
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943, 18 mins) At Land (Maya Deren, 1944, 15 mins) A Study in Choreography for Camera (Maya Deren, 1945, 4 mins) Ritual in Transfigured Time (Maya Deren, 1946, 15 mins) Petrified Dog (Sidney Peterson, 1948, 19 mins) Lead Shoes (Sidney Peterson, 1949, 18 mins) The Potted Psalm (Sidney Peterson & James Broughton, 1946, 18 mins)
Total running time approximately 107 mins
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Yemane Demissie (filmmaker, NYU) Olin Humanities, Room 1026:30 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 The Quantum Leapers, filmmaker Yemane Demissie’s forthcoming multimedia project, focuses on the buoyant and tumultuous experiences of Ethiopians during the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie I. Drawing from narratives of more than 500 interviews and thousands of images unearthed from the interviewees’ collections and dozens of international archives, the project considers how the 1935-1941 Italo-Ethiopian War and Occupation compelled the country to reevaluate its age-old traditions in the face of war, fascism and modernity.
At this lecture, Yemane will present stories revolving around the airplane—long an emblem of modernity—to explore the interlinked lives of four individuals who confront, embrace or glide with the sudden and immense changes brought about by war, occupation, and liberation.
Yemane Demissie teaches narrative and documentary filmmaking in the Department of Film & TV at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Please note: Due to copyright reasons, the presentations (in particular, the images) cannot be filmed. Photographs of the images/slides also cannot be taken by audience members during the presentation.
Olin Humanities, Room 1026:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Based on the play Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin, Stage Russia’s cinematic version of Dmitry Krymov’s Boris (2019) is a metaphor about the fate of Russia, its rulers, and eternal values. Krymov is one of the world’s most renowned stage directors. His theatrical production draws tragic parallels between Pushkin’s text and the current Putin government with its fascination with the imperial past, nationalism, censorship, human rights violations, and blatant propaganda, as well as between the early 17th-century Russia and all the myths on which Russian identity now rests. A flying raven, a poet, a folk choir, saints and sinners, living and dead — all come to life in the twilight of the Provision Warehouses of the Museum of Moscow, the play’s mesmerizing setting.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Preston6:30 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Thursday, November 11, 2021
An illustrated lecture by Astria Suparak. Followed by a conversation between Suparak and Dawn Chan, Center for Curatorial Studies.
Avery Art Center7:30 pm – 9:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Asian futures, without Asians is a new presentation by artist and curator Astria Suparak, which asks: “What does it mean when so many white filmmakers envision futures inflected by Asian culture, but devoid of actual Asian people?”
Part critical analysis, part reflective essay and sprinkled throughout with humor, justified anger, and informative morsels, this one-hour illustrated lecture examines over fifty years of American science fiction cinema through the lens of Asian appropriation and whitewashing. The quick-paced presentation is interspersed with images and clips from dozens of futuristic movies and TV shows, as Suparak delivers anecdotes, trivia, and historical documents (including photographs, ads, and cultural artifacts) from the histories of film, art, architecture, design, fashion, food, and martial arts. Suparak discusses the implications of not only borrowing heavily from Asian cultures, but decontextualizing and misrepresenting them, while excluding Asian contributors.
Asian futures, without Asians was commissioned by The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. It’s one part of Suparak’s multipart research series of the same name, which includes videos, installations, collages, essays, publications, and other projects.
Monday, October 4, 2021
A Film by Alexis Gambis '03 Preston Theater5:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 A Mexican biologist living in New York returns to his hometown, nestled in the majestic butterfly forests of Michoacán. The journey forces him to confront past traumas and reflect on his hybrid identity, sparking a personal metamorphosis.
Following the screening, meet the director Alexis Gambis and learn more about his Science New Wave movement, where scientific pursuit is free to co-exist and blend freely across disciplines and cultures.
Sunday, September 5, 2021
Johnny & Andy short film auditions for the main cast. Olin Humanities, Room 20111:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Auditions will be for those interested in acting in the short film Johnny & Andy. Please come having read the script because we will be reading from it. Please email Drew Soleiman at [email protected] for the script.
Sunday, April 18, 2021
The Otolith Group’s INFINITY minus Infinity Online Event1:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Following a 72-hour online screening of The Otolith Group’s INFINITY minus infinity (2019), join a discussion about the film between Otolith Group members Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun and INFINITY minus Infinity performer Esi Eshun, moderated by Bard College Critic in Residence Ed Halter. Presenters: Anjalika Sagar (artist, The Otolith Group), Kodwo Eshun (artist, The Otolith Group), Esi Eshun (sound artist and performer), Ed Halter (Critic in Residence, Film and Electronic Arts, Bard College).
This series is presented by the Film and Electronic Arts Program and cosponsored by Creative Process in Dialogue: Art and the Public Today, Africana Studies, Center for Faculty and Curricular Development, the Center for Curatorial Studies, the Bard Memetics Laboratory, Experimental Humanities, American Studies, and Written Arts.
Friday, April 16, 2021
The Black and Crazy Blues Online Event6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 A discussion on and between Black filmmakers working in experimental forms, moderated by film historian Michael B. Gillespie. “This program is a gathering of artists, curators, and scholars devoted to thinking about the aesthetic and cultural detail of Black film and media. Through the sharing of clips and ideas, these friends consider the complications and pleasures generated by the art of Blackness” (M. Gillespie).
Presenters: Michael B. Gillespie (film historian, CUNY; author, Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film), Kevin Jerome Everso (filmmaker, artist), Christopher Harris (filmmaker, artist), Greg De Cuir Jr. (independent curator, writer, and translator).
This series is presented by the Film and Electronic Arts Program and cosponsored by Creative Process in Dialogue: Art and the Public Today, Africana Studies, Center for Faculty and Curricular Development, the Center for Curatorial Studies, the Bard Memetics Laboratory, Experimental Humanities, American Studies, and Written Arts.
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Online Event7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Patia Borja is one of the most significant and accomplished figures in the history of online memes working today. Together with Laina Berry (@mistervacation) and River Moon (@saint.deepthroat), she runs Patia's Fantasy World, a meme page which is known for posting "tongue-in-cheek memes, razor-sharp observations about Black culture and identity, [with] an activist agenda that counters the scores of superficial platitudes on social media." (The Cut) She is also one of the forces behind the page's "comprehensive database of anti-racism resources," spanning "a range of topics including bail funds to donate to, resources for the Black trans community, literature on radical politics and prompts for addressing racism in the workplace." (Hypebae) She will be in conversation with Sacha Medjo, the mastermind behind Bard College Memes. The two will visit the lab to discuss their work and engage in a Q&A with attendants.
Monday, March 22, 2021
A Conversation with Israeli Filmmaker Yehonatan Indursky Online Event2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 A young filmmaker who already has international successes and local cult hits to his name, Yehonatan Indursky (Shtisel, Autonomies, Zman Ponevezh) is a prominent member of a new generation of Israeli artists who have brought artistic sensibilities and sensitivities to exploring the riches and paradoxes of the Orthodox Jewish community in which they were raised. This conversation, moderated by Shai Secunda, will consider Yehonatan’s personal story from Talmudic academy to filmmaking, the aesthetic potentialities of ultra-Orthodox life, his collaboration with Sayed Kashua (“Arab Labor”), the politics of Haredi society during a time of COVID, and more. Join via Zoom:https://bard.zoom.us/j/84309541838
Saturday, February 20, 2021
Online Event3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The Caribbean Students Association invites the Bard community to join a virtual live screening and panel discussion of the newest Jamaican Dancehall documentary, Out There Without Fear, by Bard student Joelle Powe. This is a multidisciplinary cross-cultural experience expanding into gender and sexuality studies, philosophy, theater, film, anthropology, sociology, music, Africana studies, history, preservation, and religion through the study of dance.
Day 1: Panel Discussion – February 19 from 1 pm to 3 pm EST Meet with the filmmaker and panelists calling in from Kingston, Jamaica. Musicologist Herbie Miller, iconic dancer Kool Kid, and internationally renowned choreographer Latonya Style want to answer your questions! The panel will be moderated by the documentarian, Joelle Powe.
Day 2: Dance Workshop – February 20 from 3 pm to 4 pm EST Dance with two award-winning Dancehall celebrities, Kool Kid and Latonya Style.
Art . . . Dance . . . Classism . . . Violence . . . Sexuality . . . Homophobia . . . The Church . . . The Empowerment of Women . . . Blackness
Friday, February 19, 2021
Online Event1:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The Caribbean Students Association invites the Bard community to join a virtual live screening and panel discussion of the newest Jamaican Dancehall documentary, Out There Without Fear, by Bard student Joelle Powe. This is a multidisciplinary cross-cultural experience expanding into gender and sexuality studies, philosophy, theater, film, anthropology, sociology, music, Africana studies, history, preservation, and religion through the study of dance.
Day 1: Panel Discussion – February 19 from 1 pm to 3 pm EST Meet with the filmmaker and panelists calling in from Kingston, Jamaica. Musicologist Herbie Miller, iconic dancer Kool Kid, and internationally renowned choreographer Latonya Style want to answer your questions! The panel will be moderated by the documentarian, Joelle Powe.
Day 2: Dance Workshop – February 20 from 3 pm to 4 pm EST Dance with two award-winning Dancehall celebrities, Kool Kid and Latonya Style.
Art . . . Dance . . . Classism . . . Violence . . . Sexuality . . . Homophobia . . . The Church . . . The Empowerment of Women . . . Blackness
Friday, December 4, 2020
Online Event8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The Wellness team and Bard After Dark are excited to invite you to the 2nd week of our virtual Feel-Good Film Festival! Join us at 8:00 pm via Zoom for the 2nd of three movie nights. The Feel-Good Film Festival is extra special because we will be renting movies that are not available to stream on any of the major platforms.
Please use this form to vote for your favorite lighthearted movie and to sign up for HOT COCOA & POPCORN to be dropped off in your mailbox! Snacks are limited to the first 25 people who sign up. Snacks will be dropped off by 5:00 PM on Friday the 4th.
To join the movie, use these credentials: Meeting ID: 924 9495 0366 | Passcode: uk86Cr
Monday, November 9, 2020
A live broadcast of “How to Fix Democracy,” a talk-show hosted by Andrew Keen and produced by Bertelsmann Foundation and Humanity in Action Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 This is a hybrid event, with a maximum of 20 Bard students attending in person at the Ottaway Film Center. Students interested in attending in person may RSVP to Nik Slackman at [email protected].
We invite additional members of the campus community and the public to attend via Zoom webinar.
Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://bard.zoom.us/j/83654732077?pwd=TnJOb25HVEZ5SmVNZTM0L0FiTm9Idz09 Passcode: 945151 Or iPhone one-tap : US: +16465588656,,83654732077#,,,,,,0#,,945151# or +13126266799,,83654732077#,,,,,,0#,,945151# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 646 558 8656 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 669 900 9128 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799 Webinar ID: 836 5473 2077 Passcode: 945151 International numbers available: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kbBuu8IXhP
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Campus Center, Weis Cinema6:30 pm – 8:05 pm EST/GMT-5 A documentary about Puerto Rico's history of population control through sterilization and experimentation with birth control on Puerto Rican women. This film is in Spanish with English subtitles. Followed by a discussion with Iris López, Director of Latin American and Latin@ Studies at CUNY and an expert on the subject.
Show up in person or online!
Warning: this film presents women who were sterilized against their will. It does not talk about women who were operated on because they did not want to have children anymore.
Free. Presented by the La Voz student club at Bard College. For more information, visit our Facebook event page: https://fb.me/e/3yDwUdDjI
To register, visit: https://tinyurl.com/y3kpdxgr
Friday, April 17, 2020
Alumni/ae Working in Film Editing, Production, Rights and Content Protection, Writing, and Freelance Journalism with Experience Working with or for VICE Media, Fast Company, PBS, RollingStone, New Republic, CoinDesk, Atlas Obscura, Guernica Magazine, Universal Music Group Via Zoom12:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Hear from a panel of Bard alumni/ae about how they translated their liberal arts education to careers in Media and Journalism. Learn about the work that they do, gain insight into the field and hear first hand about changes and trends in the industry. Student Q&A to follow.
Preston7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back the people who were responsible for her daughter’s death.
Preston7:00 pm – 9:15 pm EST/GMT-5 Best Foreign Language Film of the Year at the 81st Academy Awards
A young man who returns to his hometown after a failed career as a cellist and stumbles across work as a nōkanshi—a traditional Japanese ritual mortician. He is subjected to prejudice from those around him, including from his wife, because of strong social taboos against people who deal with death. Eventually he repairs these interpersonal connections through the beauty and dignity of his work.
Ebert gave the film a perfect four stars, describing it as "rock-solid in its fundamentals" and highlighting its cinematography, music, and the casting of Yamazaki as Sasaki.
Japanese Language, English Subtitles 2h 10min, 2008 film
Preston7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Best Valentine’s Day movie! 2004 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
“When a young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.”
Olin Hall6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5 A discussion about creative processes and commitments to the humanities that seeks to diversify perspectives on the arts disciplines and offers models for collective and inclusive community dialogues.
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Olin Humanities, Room 1025:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Tootie’s Last Suit is an awarding-winning documentary about the famed Mardi Gras Indian Chief of New Orleans, Allison Montana, a.k.a. Tootie, who died in 2005. The historical and biographical film explores the history and performative culture of Mardi Gras in New Orleans and the segregation that ensued around carnival. The film has received recognition from the Society for Visual Anthropology and a special honor from the Margaret Mead Film Foundation at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Lisa Katzman is highly-accomplished film director, whose films include Flamencos: Here at There (Aquí y Allí), 9/11’s Unsettled Dust and its sequel Hiding BP’s Oil (currently in post-production). She is currently working on a screenplay titled “Rachel and Gerard” with the director Charles Burnett, and an adaptation of Dorien Ross’ novel Returning to A.
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 with film and music excerpts. FREE
Monday, March 25, 2019
Film screening and roundtable discussion Campus Center, Weis Cinema6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 If Only I Were That Warrior (2015) is a feature documentary film focusing on the Italian occupation of Ethiopia in 1935. Following the recent construction of a monument dedicated to Fascist general Rodolfo Graziani, the film addresses the unpunished war crimes he and others committed in the name of Mussolini's imperial ambitions. The stories of three characters, filmed in present-day Ethiopia, Italy, and the United States, take the audience on a journey through the living memories and the tangible remains of the Italian occupation of Ethiopia—a journey that crosses generations and continents to today, where this often overlooked legacy still ties the fates of two nations and their people.
The film screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers, Valerio Ciriaci and Isaak Liptzin, and Bard faculty member Dinaw Mengestu.
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Preston6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EST/GMT-5 The Human Rights Project, Middle Eastern Studies, Film and Electronic Arts, and the Office of Alumni/ae Affairs invite you to join us for and evening of films and discussion with Emily Dische-Becker ’04 and Karam Ghossei.
About the Films
Street of Death (Lebanon/Germany, 2017, 22 minutes, Arabic w/ English subtitles) Directed by Karam Ghossein
In Street of Death, the narrator revisits the site of his youth—a lawless slum suburb pushed up against Beirut’s international airport, where vendettas, displays of masculinity and raucous street weddings punctuate daily life. A treacherous stretch of highway, coined “Street of Death” after the many young lives lost performing motorcycle stunts, separates the area from the dazzling Mediterranean sea. Street of Death draws a raw and intimate portrait of a neighborhood through the stories of five inhabitants, weaving the past and present, and inviting a reexamination of our relationship to the turmoil of adolescence.
My Father is Still a Communist (Lebanon, 2011, 31 minutes, Arabic w/ English subtitles) Directed by Ahmad Ghossein. Cinematography by Karam Ghossein
Through 10 years of a love relationship recorded on several audiotapes and sent like love letters, the filmmaker shares the confessions and declarations made by his mother, Maream Hmadeh, to his father, Rashid Ghossein. Married during the civil war years, they were then separated by Rashid’s time abroad looking for work. During his father’s long absences, little Ahmad pictured him as a war hero fighting for the Communist Party. My Father Is Still a Communist is a living chronicle of lives marked by the economies of migrant labor, and by the effects of war. But more than these, it is a work that documents the roles that women are often left to play in the face of men, sometimes beloved, who depart to work in other lands; women who remain with only the memories of love, and fading hopes for a future together.
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Avery Art Center5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Jeffrey Gibson unleashed upon us this summer a collaborative, process-driven art project that challenged community members to reach beyond their past and present circumstances and turn their vulnerabilities into art. The resulting video artwork, titled WonderLust, celebrates the individualized narratives of LGBTQ Mississippians while casting them as a unified and reverberating American chorus. Gibson has roots in the Mississippi dirt, through his lineage as a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. “I have a romantic notion of Mississippi and I also have a fearful notion of Mississippi,” said Gibson, who felt during his childhood visits South that he had to edit his expansive identity to exist in these spaces.
The residency project took place over the course of three intensive, four-day weekends in July and August 2018. Before Gibson arrived, we invited participation through public channels and grassroots networks. Ultimately, eight LGBTQ Mississippians committed themselves to what would be a daunting and turbulent process: learning to live and work as a group; delving into childhood memory; writing and speaking about their truest parts; developing original characters that embodied their core strength; and performing these characters for the camera—using movement, voice, and costume—in a cabaret-style show. --------------------------------------------------------------- Choreographers: Wendell Cooper Kyralesa Wiley Elizabeta Betinski
Participants: Annie Bellym Ivory Cancer Cody Walker Triana Davis Daniel Ball Jensen Luke Matar Jake Thrasher AJ Breland
Film and Editing: Sancia Nash
Sound: Aron Sanchez
Program Director: Julian Rankin ---------------------------------------------------------------
Jeffrey Gibson will be joining us for Q&A. Light refreshments will be provided!
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Philippe C. Met Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 How germane and applicable is poetry as both idiom and practice to such an ostensibly unrelated, if not diametrically opposed filmic genre as horror (or the fantastic)? Through the dual mediation of E.A. Poe’s “Philosophy of Composition” and Shakespeare’s Ophelia, the purpose of this talk is to bring out and elucidate secret affinities or conceptual commonalities between the two realms concerned within a type of cinema that deliberately subverts narrativity. Specific examples across periods and countries will be examined (C. Laughton, J. Tourneur, H. Harvey, G. Franju, M. Bava, D. Argento, R. Vadim).
Philippe C. Met is Professor of French and Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal French Forum. He is the author of Formules de la poésie (1999) and La lettre tue. Spectre(s) de l'écrit fantastique (2008), and co-editor of Screening the Paris Suburbs (2017). He is currently editing a collected volume devoted to French filmmaker Louis Malle, to be published next year.
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Professor David Forgacs, New York University Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Episodes of public violence have recurred at several key moments in the formation and consolidation of the modern Italian state: wars of unification, colonial wars, labor protests and social unrest repressed by police or the military, civil conflicts during the rise and subsequent fall of fascism, terrorism, stragismo, mafia violence. The lecture examines the long history of violence in contemporary Italy, from 1848 to 2015, and suggests that several of these instances of public violence are linked to problems of legitimation of political authority. The lecture looks also at the communication and transmission of memory in connecting or separating different moments of violence, as well as at the near-total erasure of certain episodes of mass violence from the historical record.
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 The public discussion with Isabelle Huppert begins at 3:00 PM.Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
Friday, December 2, 2016
Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Manhattan often seems like a stage where performers and exhibitionists of all varieties put on a nonstop show. I first became interested in documenting these performers in 2008, as the economy slid into recession. There was “theater” everywhere: in the streets, in public spaces, in the subway, at ethnic and social festivals where people showed off costumes, in Times Square, at political demonstrations…the spectacle was endless. I worked with my quiet, discreet Leica camera, photographing in a fluid, fast-moving reportorial style that suited the mercurial nature of my subjects. All of the photographs were made on black and white film that I processed and printed myself.
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Salim Abu Jabal, Palestine, 2014, 70mins Arabic subtitled in English Campus Center, Weis Cinema6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Since 1956, 80-year-old Yousef has lived in a shack in Roshmia Valley with his wife Amna. Life is quiet until the municipality of Haifa endorses a new road project across the valley which will result the demolition the shack. Aouni, who looks after the couple, acts as a middleman between them and the municipality; negotiations lead to tension among the three characters.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director.
This event is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Project and Film and Electronic Arts Program.
Friday, October 28, 2016
Olin Humanities, Room 1027:00 pm – 9:30 am EDT/GMT-4 A screening of the Japanese documentary "A" (dir. Mori Tatsuya), about the Aum Shinrikyo cult following the arrest of its leaders for instigating the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995.
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 A Tribute to Peter Hutton will take place at Bard College October 22 and will feature Peter's films, films dedicated to him, and personal reminiscences from a number of colleagues, friends, and alumni/ae. The tribute will be followed by a reception and evening screenings.
Tribute at 4:00pm Reminiscences of Peter with friends, colleagues, and alumni/ae.
Film screening at 6:30pm Films by Peter Hutton.
A Roll for Peter at 8:00pm 16mm camera roll project shot in honor of Peter. Organized by Jennifer Reeves '93 and Mark Street '86.
Panel discussion and networking event Campus Center, George Ball Lounge4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Starting Out in Theater and Film: Networking, Resumes, Internships, and First Jobs
A discussion with alumni/ae in the arts about how hiring really works, if internships are worth the investment, how to successfully network, and what your resume should (and shouldn't) say.
Date: Friday, October 21 Time: 4:00 PM Location: George Ball Lounge, Campus Center
Sponsored by the Natalie Lunn Technical Award Committee, the Office of Alumni/ae Affairs, and the Career Development Office
Thursday, October 6, 2016
with Edgar Barens, University of Illinois, Chicago Campus Center, Weis Cinema4:45 pm EDT/GMT-4 Barens’ film portrays the final months of a terminally ill incarcerated man and the work of the hospice volunteers, themselves incarcerated men, who care for him. Prison Terminal draws on footage that Barens shot over a six-month period at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Ft. Madison. With its careful attention to the dynamics of aging and dying in a maximum-security prison, the film offers a revealing look into little-known aspects of American incarceration. Prison Terminal was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject Documentary in 2014.
After screening the film, which is about 40 minutes long, we will have commentary from both Edgar Barens and Allison McKim, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bard.
Edgar Barens received his BFA in Film and Photography and MFA in Cinematography from Southern Illinois University. He is currently Social Documentary Developer in the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Butter on the Latch Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Recently named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film, Josephine Decker premiered her first two narrative features at the Berlinale Forum 2014 and theatrically in NYC.
Her first feature "Butter on the Latch"—called “a sexy, wild romp you have to see to believe” by Indiewire and "an utter exhilaration of cinematic imagination" by The New Yorker—is set at a real-life Balkan folk song and dance camp. The film, based on a Balkan folk song, explores the dark intimacy and neuroses of a female friendship.
Friday, April 8, 2016
April 7-8, 2016 at Bard College a two day symposium exploring the place of sound in the arts, sciences, and humanities Blum9:00 am EDT/GMT-4 Friday, April 8 @Blum
9am Prelude Georgian Polyphony Workshop with Carl Linich
10am Aurality A panel discussion with Tomie Hahn (RPI), Brian Hochman (Georgetown University), Julianne Swartz (Bard College), & Amanda Weidman (Bryn Mawr College) Chaired by Alex Benson (Bard College0
11:30am Interlude Physics of Sound with Matthew Deady Soundwalk with Todd Shalom
1:00pm Transmission A panal discussion with Masha Godovannaya (Smolny College), Tom Porcello (Vassar College), Drew Thompson (Bard College0, and Olga Touloumi (Bard College0 Chaired by Danielle Riou (Bard College)
2:30pm Interlude Oral History Workshop with Suzanne Snider Soundwalk with Todd Shalom
3:30pm Resonance A panel discussion with Marie Abe (Boston University), Emilio Distretti (Al-Quds), Erica Robles-Anderson (NYU), Maria Sonevytsky (Bard College), & David Suisman (University of Delaware) Chaired by Laura Kunreuther
5:00pm Deep Listening Workshop with Pauline Oliveros
6:00pm Closing Remarks **This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required for all interludes**
Thursday, April 7, 2016
April 7-8, 2016 at Bard College a two day symposium exploring the place of sound in the arts, sciences, and humanities Bitó Conservatory Building2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Thursday, April 7 @Bito
2:30pm Opening Lecture Emily Thompson (Princeton University) Sound Theory as Sound Practice
4pm Exhinition Opening Featuring work by Lesley Flanigan, Tristan Perich, Natalia Fedorova, and Bard College faculty and students
5:30pm Keynote Lecture Jonathan Sterne Professor and James McGill Chair in Culture & Technology, McGill University Audile Scarification: Notes on the Normalization of Hearing Damage **This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required for all interludes**
Thursday, March 31, 2016 – Saturday, April 2, 2016
Preston Thursday, March 31 5pm Reading by Palestinian poet Suheir Hammad 6:30pm Speed Sisters dir. Amber Fares, 2015, 78 minutes
Friday, April 1 5pm Sling-Shot Hip-Hop dir. Jackie Salloum, 2008, 100 minutes 7pm Arna's Children dirs. Juliano Mer-Khamis and Daniel Danniel, 2005, 85 minutes
Saturday, April 2 1pm Divine Intervention dir. Elia Suleiman, 2003, 100 minutes 3pm The Time That Remains dir. Elia Suleiman, 2011, 119 minutes 5pm The Wanted 18 dirs. Amer Shomali and Paul Cowen, 2014, 75 minutes
Introduction by Professor Richard Suchenski Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater4:45 pm – 6:15 pm EDT/GMT-4
The 1905 mutiny on board the Battleship Potemkin is regarded as one of the key events leading up to the 1917 Russian Revolution. Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 masterful portrayal of the mutiny has remained one of the most influential silent films for almost a century.
Professor Suchenski’s pre-screening talk will address the principles and development of cinematic montage, the revitalization of tradition within modernist artistic practice, and the relationship between art and politics.
Richard I. Suchenski is the Founder and Director of the Center for Moving Image Arts (CMIA) and Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts at Bard College. He is the author of Projections of Memory: Romanticism, Modernism, and the Aesthetics of Film (Oxford University Press, 2016), the editor of Hou Hsiao-hsien (Austrian Film Museum/Columbia University Press, 2014), and a contributor to many books and journals, including Artforum, The Moving Image, Viewing Platform: Perspectives on the Panorama (Yale University Press, 2016), and Robert Bresson (Indiana University Press, 2012). In addition to year-round CMIA programs, he has curated film series covering periods from the silent era to the present at institutions such as the National Gallery of Art, Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Institution, Austrian Film Museum, Museum of the Moving Image, George Eastman House, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Harvard Film Archive, Toronto International Film Festival Cinematheque, British Film Institute, National Museum of Singapore, and Yale University.
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Presented by Bard EATS Campus Center, Weis Cinema7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Just Eat It is a film that asks: where is your food going? Filmmakers and food lovers Jen and Grant dive into the issue of food waste from farm, through retail, all the way to the back of their own fridge. After catching a glimpse of the billions of dollars of good food that is tossed each year in North America, they pledge to quit grocery shopping and survive only on discarded food. What they find is truly shocking.
Snacks provided by Bard EATS Discussion following screeing
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5 We will screen the Black in Latin America film about the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Dinner and discussion will be part of the event. Co-hosted by Spanish Studies Program, BEOP Club, LASO, BSO and La Voz
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Annual Arts and Literary Journal! Avery 1175:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5 BARD PAPERS is an annual literary and arts journal that draws submissions from undergraduate students and faculty at Bard College. We are currently seeking a core staff to review submitted works on a weekly basis. If interested in discussing visual and written work, and curating this quintessentially Bard publication, please attend! More information, and an application form, is available here: http://www.bardpapers.org/
Friday, December 11, 2015
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center6:45 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Brent Green and guest musicians will be performing live in conjunction with the screening of his film, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then. This event is sponsored by Film & Electronic Arts, Ethnomusicology, The Fund for Visual Learning, and Theater & Performance.
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Preston8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Amer Shomali Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Director Amer Shomali will be joining us for a screening and discussion of his animated documentary “The Wanted 18.” Through a clever mix of stop motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story: the Israeli army’s pursuit of 18 cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared “a threat to the national security of the state of Israel.” In response to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, a group of people from the town of Beit Sahour decide to buy 18 cows and produce their own milk as a co-operative. Their venture is so successful that the collective farm becomes a landmark, and the cows local celebrities—until the Israeli army takes note and declares that the farm is an illegal security threat. Consequently, the dairy is forced to go underground, the cows continuing to produce their “Intifada milk” with the Israeli army in relentless pursuit. Recreating the story of the “wanted 18” from the perspectives of the Beit Sahour activists, Israeli military officials, and the cows, Palestinian artist Amer Shomali and veteran Canadian director Paul Cowan create an enchanting, inspirational tribute to the ingenuity and power of grassroots activism.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlKZ8daLtOo co-sponsored by: The Human Rights Project and Film Program
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room BRAVE sponosrs the documentary, The Hunting Ground. By the film makers who did The Invisible War.
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Club meeting that happens once a week. Kline, College Room Come and talk about future film projects.
Friday, September 18, 2015
Olin Humanities, Room 202 Join a conversation about the Syrian challenge and the European Union facilitated by Nesrin McMeekin and Greg Moynahan.
This event is sponsored by Bard Model United Nations and The Center for Civic Engagement.
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
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Monday, May 4, 2015
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
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Monday, April 27, 2015
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015
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Monday, April 20, 2015
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Monday, April 20, 2015
A private film screening with Dena Seidel '88 Preston Antarctic Edge: 70° South is a thrilling journey to the bottom of the Earth alongside a team of dedicated scientists. In the wake of devastating climate events like Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Katrina, oceanographer Oscar Schofield teams up with a group of world-class researchers in a race to understand climate change in the fastest winter-warming place on earth: the West Antarctic Peninsula. For more than 20 years, these scientists have dedicated their lives to studying the Peninsula's rapid change as part of the National Science Foundation's Long-Term Ecological Research Project.
Filmed in the world's most perilous environment, Antarctic Edge brings to us the stunning landscapes and seascapes of Earth's southern polar region, revealing the harsh conditions and substantial challenges that scientists must endure for months at a time. While navigating through 60-foot waves and dangerous icebergs, the film follows them as they voyage south to the rugged, inhospitable Charcot Island, where they plan to study the fragile and rapidly declining Adelie Penguin. For Schofield and his crew, these birds are the greatest indicator of climate change and a harbinger of what is to come.
Antarctic Edge: 70° South was made in a collaboration between the Rutgers University Film Bureau and the Rutgers Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences. A unique inter-disciplinary educational project bridging art, science and storytelling, Antarctic Edge was funded in part by the National Science Foundation.
Followed by a short reception 630-7 and a lecture at 7 PM: Bridging Humanities, Art and Science Through Digital Filmmaking
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Campus Center, Weis Cinema CSA presents Yurumein Homeland: The Caribs of St. Vincent, a documentary about the Carib/Garifuna resistence against slavery in St. Vincent.
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
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Monday, April 13, 2015
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Tuesday, April 7, 2015
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Monday, April 6, 2015
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015
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Films will not be shown 4/11 & 4/18.
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
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Monday, March 30, 2015
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Thursday, March 26, 2015
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Passing Ellenville is an indepent flim by Gene Fisher that was screened at the 2014 World Wide Film Festivals. The film features two transgendered young adults in Ellenville in Ulster County. The filmakers and Film stars will be in attendance for a brief Q & A after the film.
Movie trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzsbuGYCTJc
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015
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Monday, March 23, 2015
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015
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Monday, March 16, 2015
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Thursday, March 12, 2015
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Carolee Schneemann, multidisciplinary artist. Bard College alumna, Class of 1959. Transformed the definition of art, especially discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. The history of her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, the body of the artist in dynamic relationship with the social body.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015
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Monday, March 9, 2015
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Wednesday, March 4, 2015
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015
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Monday, March 2, 2015
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Monday, March 2, 2015
Christopher Stone Hegeman 204 In this talk, Christopher Stone explores the possibility of using nostalgia in popular culture as a predictor of social change. Specifically, it asks why Ahmad Zaki’s "Halim" and Adel Imam’s "Yacoubian Building" were received so differently when they came out in 2005 and how that difference in reception might be read as a predictor of Egypt’s 2011 “revolution.”
Christopher Stone is Associate Professor of Arabic and Head of the Arabic Program at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He is the author of "Popular Culture and Nationalism in Lebanon: Fairouz and the Rahbani Nation." In the spring of 2008 he was a Fulbright Scholar to Egypt where he started his current project on Egyptian popular culture, a project he continued as an NEH Fellow at the American Research Center in Egypt in 2013. He is also working on several literary translation projects. He is currently the Literature book review editor at The International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES).This event is co-sponsored by the Literature Program and the Film Program.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Screening OTTAWAY THEATER 16mm: HOME by Luther Price Super 8 to digital to 16mm) RADIO ADIOS by Henry Hills (16mm to 16mm)
Digital: ENEMA MEDLEY by anonymous ROSE HOBART by Joseph Cornell
Video digitization: CLASSIC CONVERSATIONS by Julia Heyward
Bio: Andrew Lampert is Curator of Collections at Anthology Film Archives where he is responsible for the daily management and ongoing preservation of the moving image and audio collections. He has archival preserved nearly 250 movies by artists including Stan Brakhage, Bruce Conner, Tony Conrad, Marie Menken, Maya Deren, Carolee Schneemann, Paul Sharits, Michael Snow, Wallace Berman, Robert Breer and many others. He also co-programs Anthology's 900-plus annual public screenings. As a filmmaker and artist who creates theatrical, installation and expanded cinema works, Lampert’s work is regularly presented in museums, galleries and festivals throughout North America and Europe including the Toronto International Film Festival, Oberhausen Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, the Whitney Museum, The Guggenheim Museum, The Getty Center, The Art Gallery of Ontario, PS1/MoMA and many other venues. He has taught at Purchase College and the Eugene Lang College at the New School, and recently edited THE GEORGE KUCHAR READER for the press Primary Information.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
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Monday, February 23, 2015
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015
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Films will not be shown 4/11 & 4/18.
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
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Monday, February 16, 2015
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Friday, February 13, 2015
Join up to 20 other schools in the Northeast for a weekend of organizing, campaigning, learning and celebrating around FOOD JUSTICE! Olin, MPR, Olin LC, Village A, RKC, Kline, and Hegeman The Real Food Challenge is coming to Bard!! Join up to 20 other schools in the Northeast to learn about your purchasing power with a weekend full of leadership development, training, and Social Justice!
To attend, you MUST register here (the BFI will pay for your attendance, but only if you let us know ahead of time!):
Come for the whole weekend, or just the panel and following workshop on Saturday (5:15 on, Olin LC 115) or the Creative Action Design Lab on Sunday (3:00 to 5:00 in the RKC Lazlo Z Bito Auditorium).
SATURDAY beginning for breakfast at 9:00 Location TBD
Story of the Real Food Challenge // Theory of Change // Logic of the Plantaton: Universities, Slavery, and the Food System // PANEL ON THE FOOD SYSTEM OLIN LC 115// Leadership Development Skills // Cafe Cultura Open Mic
SUNDAY: beginning for breakfast at 9:00 Location TBD
Understanding Our Selves in Systems of Power // Power: Movements and How We Build Them // Cycle of Organizing // CREATIVE ACTION DESIGN LAB OLIN 205// Self and Community Care
MONDAY beginning for breakfast at 9:00 Location TBD
Campaign Planning Session // Closing and Goodbyes
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
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Monday, February 9, 2015
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Friday, February 6, 2015
Avery 117Bard Papers is an annual literary and arts journal that draws submissions from undergraduate students and faculty at Bard College. We are looking for visual submissions including but not limited to photography, film and all studio arts as well as writing (poetry, nonfiction, fiction, translation, academic) and music. Media of all kinds.
We are currently seeking a core staff to review visual and writing submissions weekly, for two hours each Sunday evening. Interest and experience in the arts is valuable, but staff are expected to come to all meetings and keep track of submissions via email to review beforehand. Meetings will include food -- pizza or otherwise. A large part of the process is making aesthetic choices about the journal as a whole and the kind of content we want to assemble together, all of which will be decided by the group's dynamic and participation. If you're interested in seeing past Bard Papers there is a small collection on the fourth floor of the library at about knee height.
WE ARE HOLDING AN INTEREST MEETING ON FEBRUARY 6TH AT 5 P.M. IN AVERY 117 (FIRST FLOOR OF THE FILM BUILDING). PLEASE COME IF INTERESTED, OR EMAIL US AT [email protected].
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Avery Art Center A film shot in Nepal, produced through Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Your ZimbraBard Papers is an annual literary and arts journal that draws submissions from undergraduate students and faculty at Bard College. Submissions for the 2015 edition are now open! We are looking for content including (but not limited to):
WRITING • poetry, nonfiction, fiction, translation, academic • a maximum of 10 pages, double-spaced PHOTOGRAPHY FILM ALL STUDIO ARTS • send your best documentation with title and materials MUSIC
MEDIA OF ALL KINDS
Please email your submissions to [email protected] by MARCH 10TH. FIVE PIECES MAXIMUM. The sooner you email, the sooner it will be reviewed. Feel free to email with any questions!
Monday, February 2, 2015
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Monday, November 17, 2014
Ross Shain '91 Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center Bard film department alumnus, Ross Shain '91 will talk about visual effect problem solving and demonstrate the Academy Award winning software he helped design, mocha Pro.
About Ross Shain
Ross Shain is an accomplished post-production artist and chief marketing officer of Imagineer Systems. In 2013, Ross was recognized by the Academy of Motion Pictures with a Science and Engineering Academy Award for his work on the development and design of mocha planar tracking software. With 20 years of creative and technical experience in film and television, Shain has held responsibilities ranging from compositor, colorist and effects supervisor to product designer. Prior to his role at Imagineer Systems, Ross held positions with Avid Technology, On2 Technologies, Northern Lights Post and taught at New York University’s CADA Program.
About Imagineer Systems
Imagineer Systems is the award winning developer of visual effects solutions for film, video and broadcast post production markets. Imagineer Systems has made its mark on Hollywood productions as The Hobbit, Black Swan and the Harry Potter series. Imagineer’s software product line consists of mocha Pro™ - roto, planar tracking, compositing, and removal utility; mocha AE™ - a planar tracking and roto utility designed for After Effects and Final Cut Pro users. Imagineer Systems was founded in 2000 and its headquarters is located in Guildford, United Kingdom.
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Written and Directed by Matt and Erica Hinton Campus Center, Weis Cinema Come learn about one of the oldest forms of American music, shapenote singing, which is still practiced in many parts of the United States and abroad. This documentary features interviews with longtime singers in this tradition, as well as many minutes of sound and footage of the songs themselves.
The screening will be followed by a brief Q & A period.
Sponsored by Bard Ethnomusicology
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Video Art pioneer Charles Atlas will present an overview of his diverse practices Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center The Film & Electronic Arts Program and the Theater & Performance Program present: CHARLES ATLAS Visiting Artist Lecture Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 5:00 pm The Theater at the Jim Ottoway Jr. Film Center In his first ever visit to Bard College, video art pioneer Charles Atlas will present an overview of his diverse practice, with a focus on his recent site-specific video installations and multi-media performance works. For over four decades, Mr. Atlas has extended the limits of film and video, forging new territory in a far-reaching range of genres, stylistic approaches, and techniques. Over the years he has made media/dance works, multi-channel video installations, feature-length documentaries, video art works for television, and live electronic performances. Throughout his career, he has consistently fostered collaborative relationships, working intimately with such artists and performers as Leigh Bowery, Michael Clark, Douglas Dunn, Marina Abramovic, Yvonne Rainer, Mika Tajima/New Humans, Antony & The Johnsons, and most notably Merce Cunningham, for whom he served as filmmaker-in-residence for a decade from the early 1970s through 1983.
His recent projects include solo shows: Glacier (January 2013) at the Bloomberg Space, London, The Illusion of Democracy at Luhring Augustine Bushwick (February 2012) and Discount Body Parts at De Hallen Museum in Holland (March 2012) ; live performance/installations: The Pedestrians, in collaboration with Mika Tajima/New Humans at The South London Gallery (April 2011), In Residence at the 2012 Whitney Biennial, and Charles Atlas and Collaborators at the Tate Modern (March 2013); and Ocean, a film of Merce Cunningham’s epic dance, which premiered at the Walker Art Center (September 2010). His most recent film TURNING, a documentary feature made in collaboration with Antony and the Johnsons is currently touring in festivals worldwide and will be released digitally and on DVD in the coming months.
Atlas has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, three “Bessie” (New York Dance and Performance) Awards, and was the 2006 recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Artʼs biennial John Cage Award.
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Campus Center, Weis Cinema A screening of the 1978 thriller Eyes of Laura Mars starring Faye Dunaway and Tommy Lee Jones, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Anne Collier now on view at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. Laura Mars is a fashion photographer who specializes in stylized violence. Amid controversy over whether her photographs glorify violence and are demeaning to women, Laura begins seeing real-time visions of murders through the eyes of the killer.
Monday, May 5, 2014
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Saturday, April 26, 2014
Film by John Cage and Richard Lippold, The Sun Film (1956) Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center From absolute film to psychedelia, this program of revelatory moments from the history of visual music and kinetic art explores lost, legendary and rare treasures from the archives of Center for Visual Music (CVM). Featuring the east coast premiere of the newly discovered film by John Cage and Richard Lippold, The Sun Film (1956), about the kinetic art sculpture. Rare works by Jordan Belson include his infamous LSD (1962); a presentation reel from the legendary San Francisco Vortex Concerts (1959) and Quartet (1983). Early films by Oskar Fischinger, an influence on Cage, Belson and many others, include 35mm prints of Spirals, Ornament Sound and Studie nr 5. Made in Upstate New York, Turn, Turn, Turn (1966) by Jud Yalkut is ‘a kinetic alchemy of the light and electronic works of Nicolas Schöffer, Julio Le Parc, USCO, and Nam June Paik, with sound by USCO.'
The program, featuring many newly preserved 16mm and 35mm prints, will be introduced by curator/archivist Cindy Keefer of CVM. Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust, will introduce The Sun Film by Cage and Lippold.
Free admission, no reservations required.
Co-sponsored by the John Cage Trust at Bard College and The Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Monday, April 21, 2014
Campus Center, Weis Cinema This film is an intimate and irreverent portrait of Ghanaian hip-hop superstar Reggie Ossei Rockstone’s tour of New York. It is an experimental documentary blending footage recorded by the film’s main characters. In West Africa, Rockstone pioneered Twi language rap and hosts reality TV shows. But he is anonymous when he comes to perform for Africans in America. He reunites with both his African American producer DJ Rab Bakari and manager Dhoruba Bin Wahad, a former Black Panther Party leader, who have returned to New York after living in Ghana. As they plan Reggie’s tour, they meet aspiring artists, joke, argue about politics and race, shoot music videos, perform, and hustle.Director Jesse Weaver Shipley is a filmmaker and ethnographer who has shot documentaries, short fiction, and music videos in New York, London, Accra, Ghana, and Johannesburg, South Africa including the feature documentary Living the Hiplife and the multi-channel video installation Black Star. He is author of the book Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
The collective story by and about those closest to the issues in our educational system Campus Center, Weis Cinema Join the Bard New Orleans Exchange for a screening over the award-winning documentary, American Teacher, this Wednesday at 7pm.
Chronicling the lives of four teachers in the American public education system, the film raises awareness to the issues present in classrooms and districts across the country.
This event is free and open to the public!
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
On Art, War, and the Avatars of Filmmaking Campus Center, Weis Cinema Screening followed by Q&A with the filmmakers.Both films are in Spanish with English subtitles. The Guernica Variations (Guillermo Peydró, 2012, 26 min): Picasso’s Guernica is the image of a disproportionate attack on unarmed civilians to demoralize and subjugate a whole population, it encapsulates a turning point that ushered in today’s use of terror against civilians.This film received the 2013 Best Documentary Award from Uruguay’s International Short Film Festival, among other awards, and has been widely screened at museums, including the Reina Sofia National Museum. City of Signs (Samuel Alarcón, 2009, 62 min): When César Alarcón travels to Pompeii to collect ‘psychophonies’ - electronic voice phenomena - from Vesuvius’s great eruption, he finds that none contain sounds from the year 79 AD. Eloquent voices from the recent past will nonetheless lead him to the exploration of Roberto Rossellini’s mysterious life and film production. This film received the 2011 Román Gubern Essay-Film Award, among other awards.
Monday, March 10, 2014
with filmmaker, Andrew Bujalski, in attendance Theater, Ottaway Film Center The Film & Electronic Arts Department presents COMPUTER CHESS followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, Andrew Bujalski. For more information on the film: http://www.computerchessmovie.com/
Monday, March 3, 2014
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Film Screening & Dinner Benefit Campus Center, Weis Cinema "New Orleans, Louisiana has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the United States. For the last decade, statistics have shown murder rates four to six times higher than the national average. Eighty percent of the victims are black males, mostly in their teenage years. This is the city's greatest neglected crisis with profound implications for the issues of violence and crime most American cities face. New Orleans government, law enforcement, community leaders, and well-intentioned citizens cannot agree on a prognosis or a solution to this situation. Wherever a disagreement is escalating into violence, an execution is being planned, or a victim is taking his last breath, it is more than likely a youth is witnessing or carrying out these actions. Shell Shocked attempts to bridge the gap of this disconnect by hearing the ideas, opinions, and testimonies from activists, community leaders, police, city officials, youth program directors, family and friends of victims, and the children who live in these violent circumstances. We are looking for positive solutions to an extremely negative situation."
Join the Bard New Orleans Exchange for a benefit dinner and screening of the award-winning film. Jambalaya and cornbread will be served for $5 a plate with all proceeds going toward BNEO's Summer Intensive in Education program. All are welcome!
Monday, February 24, 2014
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Monday, February 17, 2014
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Sunday, February 16, 2014
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Please join the Human Rights Project on Sunday, February 16 at 5:30pm in Weis Cinema for a screening of Academy Award Nominated film Trouble the Water (2008) and a conversation with the film’s editor and co-producer, Todd Woody Richman.
Trouble the Water is a documentary which follows an aspiring rap artist and her husband during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. New York Times reviewer Manohla Dargis called it “superb,” and Rogert Ebert commended the film for conveying the reality of New Orleans in the aftermath of the hurricane while exposing the outrageous behavior of government agencies. The film received tremendous acclaim, winning the Grand Jury Award, The Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights, and the Working Films Award at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as receiving an Oscar Nomination.Todd Woody Richman is a veteran documentary film editor whose past work includes How to Survive a Plague (2012), Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), and Bowling for Columbine (2002).The film will be followed by a Q&A with editor and co-producer of the film, T. Woody Richman. More information about the movie can be found hereOrganized by the Human Rights Project. *Childcare provided
Friday, February 14, 2014
Lauren Cain’s senior project film A MELTED VOID Olin Humanities, Room 104 Please come audition for Lauren Cain’s senior project film A MELTED VOID, a semi-musical, tragic fantasy about an immortal spirit’s betrayal of her earthbound sons.
Fantastical and intellectual, the work is an exotic approach to the classic themes of the balance between life and death, and all of the ambiguity that is born of the unknown.
1 male, leading role
NOTE: This role will require some nudity, as well as vocal and physical exertion.
Several short speaking roles
Please prepare a 2-3 minute audition in which you do one or both of the following:
Perform a song a capella. The song should showcase vocal range and volume (you must have the lyrics memorized)
Do an expressive, dramatic reading from any prepared passage of your choice (you may bring the text to the audition or memorize it). You might want to incorporate movement/ dance in your reading.
Open to actors, non-actors, dancers, and singers Please contact Lauren Cain [email protected] if you have any questions or need to schedule a different time.
note: if you cannot make it to the first, a second casting call will be held from 12PM-6PM in Olin 104 on the 15th of February.
Monday, February 10, 2014
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Monday, February 3, 2014
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Monday, February 3, 2014
All Students and Faculty Encouraged to Submit Work for 2014 Issue Bard College CampusBard Papers is a literary and arts journal distributed annually that draws submissions from undergraduate students and faculty at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. The print edition that celebrated it’s 40th year of publication in 2013 is accompanied by a digital archive at www.bardpapers.com.
Visual submission, including photography, film and all studio arts as well as written and musical will be accepted for anonymous review. All mediums accepted for review. Please limit submissions to 5 pieces per artist/author. Submissions may be emailed to [email protected].
Monday, November 18, 2013
Olin Humanities, Room 102 Bard CEP first-year students will host a special screening of Josh Fox's Gasland II on Monday, November 18th at 9:30am, just two weeks before Josh Fox joins us for the National Climate Seminar. We hope you can make it!
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center In this film Bill Emmott teams with Filmmaker Annalisa Piras to explore Italy’s political, economic and social decline over the past 20 years, the product of a moral collapse unmatched anywhere else in the West. Emmott’s quest to understand both “Mala Italia” and “Buona Italia” includes Interviews with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, philosopher and novelist Umberto Eco, film director Nanni Moretti, women’s rights activist Lorella Zanardo, FIAT’s outspoken Canadian-Italian CEO Sergio Marchionne, the author of Gomorrah Roberto Saviano and many others.
Bill Emmott is an international journalist and consultant, having been editor-in-chief of The Economist from 1993-2006. The author of a dozen books, most of them about Japan and Asia, his latest book was Good Italy, Bad Italy: Why Italy must Conquer its Demons to Face the Future (Yale University Press 2012). His documentary Girlfriend in a Coma has been seen by more than two million people. Bill is also chairman of the trustees of the London Library, a trustee of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and a member of the Swiss Re Chairman’s Advisory Panel. With Annalisa Piras, he is now working on a new documentary about the threats to the European Dream, and has co-founded The Wake Up Foundation, dedicated to research and communication about the decline of the West.
Ottaway Film Center Charif Kiwan, spokesperson for the acclaimed Syrian film collective, Abou Naddara, will come to Bard to screen a series of short films and give a talk.
“We committed to making a short film every Friday as a contribution to the revolution. But we didn’t film our revolution in the way that you might see it on youtube through unbearable chaotic images. Rather we sought to understand it through the stories of individuals who are on the other side of the news. For us it is a question of making an immediate cinema without succumbing to the tyranny of the news, of making a political cinema without succumbing to facile denunciation.”
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Meet a Native Alaskan who hunts Protected Species of Marine Mammals Preston 110 Yup'ik marine mammal hunter and skin sewer Peter Williams will speak on spiritual and sustainable relationships with nature.
Friday, September 27, 2013
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Friday 4-5PM: Bard student presentations: Gleb Mikhalev will show films he created of salmon on our western rivers, Christina Baal will share paintings of the natural life of the Hudson River and Bard CEP student Ashely Brinkman will discuss her work with the EPA on the Ohio River.
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Bard Hall Following on Wofford College’s successful Fall 2012 Thinking Like a River Conference, Thinking Like a River moves north—to Bard College. John Lane—poet, naturalist, southern nature writer and river rat—launched the first Thinking Like a River weekend and he will be on campus to lead discussions and canoe outings over the course of the weekend. With him will be poets, writers, activists, naturalists and river lovers discussing rivers in an interdisciplinary manner. The weekend will kick off on Thursday September 26 at 6 in Bard Hall with music, poems and local food! Bard graduate Chris Rubeo will sing river songs in the tradition of Pete Seeger and Betty and the Baby Boomers and talk about his environmental work. Art from Lisa Sanditz’s art class will grace the walls along with photographs from Tim Davis’s color photography class. Guests John Lane and Elizabeth Bradfield will read poems and they will be joined by Bard College faculty Celia Bland and Phil Pardi. Come think about rivers and learn more about Bard’s Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
Thursday, September 26, 2013
A Talk by Lev Manovich Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center How do we navigate massive visual collections of user-generated content consisting from billions of images? What new theoretical concepts do we need to deal with the scale of born-digital culture? How do we use data mining of massive cultural data sets to question our cultural assumptions and biases? The Software Studies Initiative (softwarestudies.com) was established at the University of California, San Diego in 2007 to begin working on these questions. Lev Manovich will briefly present the techniques they developed for exploratory analysis of massive visual collections. This presentation will be illustrated with examples of their research, including analysis of 2.3 million Instagram photos, 1 million pages from manga books, and 1 million user-created artworks (from http://www.deviantart.com/ ). Manovich will also discuss how computational analysis and visualization of big cultural data sets leads us to question traditional discrete categories used for cultural categorization such as "style" and "period."Lev Manovich is the author of Software Takes Command (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (The MIT Press, 2005), and The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001) which is d”scribed as “the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan." Manovich is a Professor at The Graduate Center, CUNY and a Director of the Software Studies Initiative at CUNY and California Institute for Telecommunication and Information (Calit2).
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Seminar Room 1 Visiting the LA Art Book Fair, realize that “art” books no longer necessarily about visual art … in fact, most are not. “Art” now connotes something else, a non-commercial cultural product … Art projects like Rolling Jubilee, K Hole, Care of Editions might once have been perceived through the lens of activism … Ability of conceptual art projects to reflect and concretize the abstraction of capital’s flows … conceptual art being perhaps best medium through which to perceive something as conceptual and abstract as capital … Film, theater, literature, poetry, experimental music and dance disappear as separate disciplines with no distribution/revenue structures left to support them, and migrate into the art world … the strengths and weaknesses of this situation.Chris Kraus is a writer and critic based in Los Angeles. Her most recent novel is Summer of Hate. In 2012, she co-curated the exhibition Radical Localism: Art, Media and Culture from Pueblo Nuevo’s Mexicali Roseat Artists Space with Richard Birkett and Marco Vera. This work has led to further writings on the expanding art world and outpost culture, including Kelly Lake Store (n+1, Summer 2013). She contributed to ICA Philadelphia Four Roads Jason Rhoades book, and writes about art and culture for various magazines.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Barbara Sukowa reteams with director Margarethe von Trotta (Rosa Luxemburg) for her brilliant new biopic of influential German–Jewish philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt.
Olin Hall7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Arendt’s controversial reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in the New Yorker introduced her now-famous concept of the “Banality of Evil.” Using footage from the actual Eichmann trial and weaving a narrative that spans three countries, von Trotta turns the often invisible passion for thought into immersive, dramatic cinema.
An official selection at the Toronto International and New York Jewish Film Festivals, Hannah Arendt also co-stars Klaus Pohl as philosopher Martin Heidegger, Nicolas Woodeson as New Yorker editor William Shawn, and two-time Oscar Nominee Janet McTeer as novelist Mary McCarthy.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film's writer Pam Katz, the film's star, Barbara Sukowa, who plays Hannah Arendt in the film, and Roger Berkowitz, the Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center.
Admission to this event is free and open to the public. No tickets or reservations are necessary.
Friday, April 26, 2013
Seeking extras and actors for speaking roles The Fly Room to film at Bard on June 4-7 Olin 304 Bard alumnus Alexis Gambis ('03) is bringing a very exciting project to Bard this spring. This project is the feature film The Fly Room, major scenes of which will be shot at Bard during the first week of June. The film will take viewers back to the 1920s, to a then-unknown, cramped laboratory where three scientists scrutinize hundreds of fruit flies in the hope of uncovering the first discoveries of modern genetics. Into this room steps Betsy, the nine year-old daughter of one of the researchers—the soon-to-be famous geneticist Calvin Bridges. Surrounded by hundreds of jars, hanging bananas, and drawings of Drosophila, Betsy struggles to understand how her father spends so much of his life in this place. Journeying into his world, she begins to understand what secrets the flies may hold. But it soon becomes clear that her father is hiding secrets of his own.
Most of the film will be shot in Brooklyn in an exact replica of the Fly Room (which will eventually open to the public as an exhibit sponsored by Science and Nature magazines), but several on-location sequences will be filmed here. Of those, two of the biggest ones will be a drawing class and a party at Manor where Betsy, as a college student in 1939, learns of her father's death from an article in the New York Times. The party scene in particular should be fun, since it will be surrealist-themed, with wild period costumes and Dalí/Duchamp-esque production design involving bicycles hanging from the ceiling. I'm interning on the production and have been instructed to look for people who would be interested in getting involved. Filming at Bard will take place on June 4-7. For those days, and especially for June 6-7, the production is looking for volunteers in the following areas: — Extras for the drawing class and surrealist party. — Speaking-role actors for several characters. See below for information on the characters and auditions. The work will be challenging, since the scenes will require a lot of careful coordination to do just right, but it will be a lot of fun, and from what I know about the project, the movie promises to be really amazing. If you're interested in getting involved, send me an email at <[email protected]> with your name, photo, contact info., major, a brief description of why you're interested, and if you have a place to stay off-campus for the two weeks of filming at Bard. For more information on The Fly Room, visit <www.theflyroom.com>. Thank you so much, Alex White Bard Film Co-op Co-Head Intern on The Fly Room
Audition and Character Information for Speaking-Role Actors:The Fly Room seeks actors to play several supporting roles as classmates of Betsy, the film's protagonist. The roles include:— Clara (20-21)She is seductive, free spirited and impulsive. She is Betsey's confidant and best friend. Clara is self-conscious and always wants to be the center of attention. Her noisiness and inability to keep a secret gets her into trouble.— Bobbie (20-22)Bobbie is a preppy, built young chap part of the highest ranked Fraternity society at Bard College. He loves to impress his male friends with ridiculous games and has a slight passive aggressive temperament especially when he is vexed or embarrassed in a group setting. He used to date Clara and they still flirt on occasions.— Ed (mid-20s)Ed is tall, built with dark features. He is Betsy's adventurous, passionate, and occasionally impulsive boyfriend. Ed is beginning a career as a naval architect in France and hopes that Betsy will join him there as his fiancée.Other speaking roles include that of George, who greets party guests and flirts unsubtly with them, Arthur, who reads aloud about the World's Fair in costume as Salvador Dalí, and a couple of friends who discuss the World's Fair with Bobby, Clara, and Betsy.Students who are interested in auditioning should send an email to <[email protected]> to schedule a time slot, and then sides will be sent to them by email. Speaking-role auditions will take place at Olin 304 on Thursday, April 25, 4PM-8PM and on Friday, April 26, 10AM-5PM. Callbacks will also take place in Olin 304 on Friday, May 3 between 10AM and 8PM.
Seeking extras and actors for speaking roles The Fly Room to film at Bard on June 4-7 Olin 304 Bard alumnus Alexis Gambis ('03) is bringing a very exciting project to Bard this spring. This project is the feature film The Fly Room, major scenes of which will be shot at Bard during the first week of June. The film will take viewers back to the 1920s, to a then-unknown, cramped laboratory where three scientists scrutinize hundreds of fruit flies in the hope of uncovering the first discoveries of modern genetics. Into this room steps Betsy, the nine year-old daughter of one of the researchers—the soon-to-be famous geneticist Calvin Bridges. Surrounded by hundreds of jars, hanging bananas, and drawings of Drosophila, Betsy struggles to understand how her father spends so much of his life in this place. Journeying into his world, she begins to understand what secrets the flies may hold. But it soon becomes clear that her father is hiding secrets of his own.
Most of the film will be shot in Brooklyn in an exact replica of the Fly Room (which will eventually open to the public as an exhibit sponsored by Science and Nature magazines), but several on-location sequences will be filmed here. Of those, two of the biggest ones will be a drawing class and a party at Manor where Betsy, as a college student in 1939, learns of her father's death from an article in the New York Times. The party scene in particular should be fun, since it will be surrealist-themed, with wild period costumes and Dalí/Duchamp-esque production design involving bicycles hanging from the ceiling. I'm interning on the production and have been instructed to look for people who would be interested in getting involved. Filming at Bard will take place on June 4-7. For those days, and especially for June 6-7, the production is looking for volunteers in the following areas: — Extras for the drawing class and surrealist party. — Speaking-role actors for several characters. See below for information on the characters and auditions. The work will be challenging, since the scenes will require a lot of careful coordination to do just right, but it will be a lot of fun, and from what I know about the project, the movie promises to be really amazing. If you're interested in getting involved, send me an email at <[email protected]> with your name, photo, contact info., major, a brief description of why you're interested, and if you have a place to stay off-campus for the two weeks of filming at Bard. For more information on The Fly Room, visit <www.theflyroom.com>. Thank you so much, Alex White Bard Film Co-op Co-Head Intern on The Fly Room
Audition and Character Information for Speaking-Role Actors:The Fly Room seeks actors to play several supporting roles as classmates of Betsy, the film's protagonist. The roles include:— Clara (20-21)She is seductive, free spirited and impulsive. She is Betsey's confidant and best friend. Clara is self-conscious and always wants to be the center of attention. Her noisiness and inability to keep a secret gets her into trouble.— Bobbie (20-22)Bobbie is a preppy, built young chap part of the highest ranked Fraternity society at Bard College. He loves to impress his male friends with ridiculous games and has a slight passive aggressive temperament especially when he is vexed or embarrassed in a group setting. He used to date Clara and they still flirt on occasions.— Ed (mid-20s)Ed is tall, built with dark features. He is Betsy's adventurous, passionate, and occasionally impulsive boyfriend. Ed is beginning a career as a naval architect in France and hopes that Betsy will join him there as his fiancée.Other speaking roles include that of George, who greets party guests and flirts unsubtly with them, Arthur, who reads aloud about the World's Fair in costume as Salvador Dalí, and a couple of friends who discuss the World's Fair with Bobby, Clara, and Betsy.Students who are interested in auditioning should send an email to <[email protected]> to schedule a time slot, and then sides will be sent to them by email. Speaking-role auditions will take place at Olin 304 on Thursday, April 25, 4PM-8PM and on Friday, April 26, 10AM-5PM. Callbacks will also take place in Olin 304 on Friday, May 3 between 10AM and 8PM.
Olin 102 April 22 Magnificent Presence, 2012 by Fernan Ozpetek
Ferzan Ozpetek's latest film is a modern ghost story, with its protagonist a young gay man (an actor-to-be), only this time, the sexual orientation drama leaves its spotlight to the haunting possession of a big family of dead theatrical actors who are trapped in an old house and disconnected from the real world, eager to find out who is the whistle-blower imputed to their tragic death during the WWII.
Monday, April 22, 2013
Every Monday, April 1 – April 22
Olin 102
Monday, April 15, 2013
Every Monday, April 1 – April 22
Olin 102 April 22 Magnificent Presence, 2012 by Fernan Ozpetek
Ferzan Ozpetek's latest film is a modern ghost story, with its protagonist a young gay man (an actor-to-be), only this time, the sexual orientation drama leaves its spotlight to the haunting possession of a big family of dead theatrical actors who are trapped in an old house and disconnected from the real world, eager to find out who is the whistle-blower imputed to their tragic death during the WWII.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Every Monday, April 1 – April 22
Olin 102
Monday, April 8, 2013
Every Monday, April 1 – April 22
Olin 102 April 22 Magnificent Presence, 2012 by Fernan Ozpetek
Ferzan Ozpetek's latest film is a modern ghost story, with its protagonist a young gay man (an actor-to-be), only this time, the sexual orientation drama leaves its spotlight to the haunting possession of a big family of dead theatrical actors who are trapped in an old house and disconnected from the real world, eager to find out who is the whistle-blower imputed to their tragic death during the WWII.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Every Monday, April 1 – April 22
Olin 102
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Movies and at Least One Live Soundtrack Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center Artist Xander Marro presents a collection of short films and videos made over a span of 15 years in Providence RI. Mostly originating on 16mm film and originally presented with live soundtrack, the program's common themes include: DIY living quarters, puppeteer frontiers, too many cats, winter, witches, wishes, girls, girls, girls, silkscreen messes, zine libraries, drum kits, fairy tales, cut paper, trinkets stored in drawers, the quest for true love, the junk of this material world, alchemy/regular chemistry, the magic of unlikely alliances, and the spirits of the night. Dina Deitsch of the DeCordova Museum writes, "Marro’s work is generally low-tech and handmade and embedded with a community of collective art-making. Typically using arcane pieces of visual culture to create strange and fantastic worlds, this almost Luddite approach presents an alternative to today’s fast-paced media-driven environments."
Monday, April 1, 2013
Every Monday, April 1 – April 22
Olin 102 April 22 Magnificent Presence, 2012 by Fernan Ozpetek
Ferzan Ozpetek's latest film is a modern ghost story, with its protagonist a young gay man (an actor-to-be), only this time, the sexual orientation drama leaves its spotlight to the haunting possession of a big family of dead theatrical actors who are trapped in an old house and disconnected from the real world, eager to find out who is the whistle-blower imputed to their tragic death during the WWII.
Monday, April 1, 2013
Every Monday, April 1 – April 22
Olin 102
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Summer Pastures Preston Opre Roma (Rise Roma), Students for Free Tibet, and Amnesty International present a screening of Summer Pastures, a film about the struggle for nomad rights in Tibet.
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Film: Gadjo Dilo (Crazy Stranger) Preston Opre Roma (Rise Roma) is a club centered on awareness and appreciation of indigenous and Roma, or "gypsy," culture and identity. This Saturday, Opre Roma will be screening the film Gadjo Dilo (Crazy Stranger) by celebrated Roma filmaker Tony Gatlif. Brief discussion and snacks!
Friday, March 1, 2013
A Day of Hybrid Cinema Avery Art Center Join us for a day devoted to films and videos that combine documentary and fictional forms. Visiting filmmakers Liza Johnson, Braden King, and Holden Osborne join local talents Peggy Ahwesh and Effie Asili to show and discuss their work.
Sponsored by the Film and Electronic Arts Program and Creative Capital.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Q & A to follow with the filmaker, Deborah Koons Garcia, and lead scientist in the film, Dr. Ignacio Chapela Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center The latest film from Deborah Koons Garcia, “SYMPHONY OF THE SOIL” will be shown at Bard College, followed by a Q & A with the filmmaker and lead scientist in the film. The screening is free and open to the public. Doors open at 4:35pm. (Read Huff Post Review) We hope you will join us!
SYMPHONY OF THE SOIL is a feature length film that explores the complexity and mystery of soil. Filmed on four continents and sharing the voices of some of the world’s most highly esteemed soil scientists, farmers, and activists, the film portrays soil as a protagonist of our planetary story. In a skillful mix of art and science, soil is revealed to be a living organism, the foundation of life on earth. Most people are soil-blind and “treat soil like dirt.” With the knowledge and wisdom revealed in this film, we can come to respect, even revere, this miraculous substance. The film inspires the understanding that treating the soil right can help solve some of our most pressing environmental problems, from climate change, to dead zones, to feeding an ever increasing world population.
For the last ten years, Deborah Koons Garcia has created films that bring deep awareness to food and farming issues. For more information on Symphony of the Soil, please see www.symphonyofthesoil.com
Ottaway TheaterThe DOC/FRICTION screening and guest event are canceled. This event will be rescheduled.
Please join us for a day and evening dedicated to films and videos that combine documentary and fictional forms.
The Film and Electronic Arts Program and Creative Capital present an array of international short and feature-length works starting at 2pm on Friday, February 8th in the Ottaway Theater.
Visiting filmmakers Liza Johnson, Braden King, and Holden Osborne join local talents Peggy Ahwesh and Ephraim Asili to show and discuss their films. All events are free and open to the public.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Preston EUS FILM SERIES presents
Food, Inc.
How do we feed the 7 billion people on this planet? Where does your meat come from? What are you eating tonight?
Join us after the screening for a discussion on the nutritional, economic, environmental and human/animal rights issues surrounding corporate farming in America.
Preston 110
8 pm
EUS Film Series is a bi-weekly screening of documentary films that are related to subjects explored by the Environmental and Urban Studies program at Bard. Join us every other thursday this fall to watch the films and discuss EUS topics with your peers and professors. Spread the word!
Coming up:
Forks Over Knives, December 6th, 8 pm, Preston 110
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Preston EUS Film Series is a bi-weekly screening of documentary films that are related to subjects explored by the Environmental and Urban Studies program at Bard. Join us every other Thursday this fall to watch the films and discuss EUS topics with your peers and professors. Spread the word!
This week's film is Urbanized, which features our very own Noah B. Chasin (Art History, Environmental & Urban Studies, Human Rights) as well as Rem Koolhaas, Norman Foster, and Michael Sorkin! Join us as these famous architects (and we) discuss the policy, design, and human rights issues surrounding urban planning.
Friday, November 9, 2012
Preston EUS FILM SERIES presents
What I've Learned about US Foreign Policy: The War Against the Third World
TOMORROW
Preston 110
8:00 pm
Surprise film just added courtesy of Kris Feder!
EUS Film Series is a bi-weekly screening of documentary films that are related to subjects explored by the Environmental and Urban Studies program at Bard. Join us every other thursday this fall to watch the films and discuss EUS topics with your peers and professors. Spread the word!
Coming up:
Urbanized - November 15th, 9:15 pm, Preston 110
Food, Inc.- November 29th, 8 pm, Preston 110
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Avery Art Center Slate columnist Daniel Engber discusses depictions of impalings, beheadings, and other violations in 3-D cinema. A critical look at stereoscopic gore, from the tawdry slasher films of the 1980s to today.
Friday, April 29, 2011
Screenings and Installations April 27 - 30: Chloe DellaCosta (installation, Gallery, Ottaway Film Center room 219)
April 29, 7:30 p.m.: Billy Sarno, Sam Davidson (screening, Ottaway Theater)
May 5 - 7: Adam Khalil (installation, Old Gym, open 9 p.m. - 1 a.m.) Kate Nemeth (installation, Integrated Arts Room in the Ottaway Film Center)
May 6, 7 p.m.: Amy Strumbly, Kevin Schreck (screening, Ottaway Theater)
May 7, 7 p.m.: Max Weinman, Jessica Medenbach, Kit Fraser, Clemens Knieper (screening, Ottaway Theater)
May 13 - 15: Rachael Williams (installation, Gallery, Ottaway Film Center room 219)
May 13: 7 p.m. - Amanda Hammett, Clark Frankel (screening, Ottaway Theater) 9 p.m. - Theresia Enzensberger, Melissa Wynne l (screening, Ottaway Theater)
May 14: 7 p.m. - Nick Peet, Cooper Roussell l (screening, Ottaway Theater) 9 p.m. - Jonathan Rosen, Skyler Dahan l (screening, Ottaway Theater)
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Candidate for the Position in Media Production Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center Shana Moulton will present selections from her video and performance work.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Candidate for the Positon in Media Production Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center "Common Expressions"
Michael Bell-Smith discusses the role contemporary culture and technology plays in shaping his work in the moving image and digital media.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Candidate for the Positon in Media Production Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center Ben Coonley is a Brooklyn-based video, performance and electronic media artist whose work employs a wide range of media technologies and exhibition strategies. His projects include single-channel films and videos, experimental PowerPoint slideshows, 3D videos and lenticular prints, web-based artworks, TV commercials, installations and live multimedia performances. Blending amateur and commercial conventions in seemingly unintended and accidental ways, Coonley wryly dismantles and rearranges texts and subtexts of contemporary media culture. Coonley will discuss his practice and present a selection of his work. 3D glasses provided.
Coonley studied Art-Semiotics and English Literature at Brown University, and received an MFA in Film/Video from Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts in 2002. He has taught at Bard, Princeton University, Parsons The New School for Design, and the New School Media Studies MA Program. His works have been presented at film festivals and venues including MoMA PS1’s “Greater New York: Cinema” (2010), Performa 09, The New Museum for Contemporary Art, the Moscow Biennale, Sundance, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and on the front page of YouTube. In 2010, he was named one of Film Comment’s “21 Leading Lights of Projection Performance.”
Friday, April 8, 2011
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center Filmmaker and painter Jeff Scher will show and discuss his animated work. Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Film & Electronic Arts Program and the Experimental Television Center. whose Presentation Funds program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center A Talk and Screening by Filmmaker Deborah Stratman.
Deborah Stratman is a Chicago-based artist and filmmaker interested in landscapes and systems. Her films, rather than telling stories, pose a series of problems - and through their at times ambiguous nature, allow for a complicated reading of the questions being asked. Many of her films point to the relationships between physical environments and the very human struggles for power, ownership, mastery and control that are played out on the land. Most recently, they have questioned elemental historical narratives about freedom, expansion, security, and the regulation of space. Stratman works in multiple mediums, including photography, sound, drawing and sculpture. She has exhibited internationally at venues including the Whitney Biennial, MoMA, the Pompidou, Hammer Museum and many international film festivals including Sundance, the Viennale, Ann Arbor and Rotterdam. She is the recipient of Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships and she currently teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Film & Electronic Arts Program and the Experimental Television Center. whose Presentation Funds program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center Nao Bustamante is an internationally known artist and a recent contestant on the Bravo TV reality series Work of Art: The Next Great Artist. Originally from California, she attended the San Francisco Art Institute, where she was under the infuence of the notorious New Genres department. She now resides in upstate New York, where she teaches New Media and Live Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and canoes with her poodle, Fufu (who also has an IMDB page).Nao Bustamante will present a selection of her at times precarious and radically vulnerable work, which encompasses performance art, video installation, visual art, flmmaking, and writing. The New York Times (Kevin McGarry) says, "She has a knack for using her body."Bustamante has exhibited, performed or screened work at the ICA in London, Franklin Furnace and MoMA in New York, and at Sundance, Outfest, and Mix festivals, among other locales. Awards she has received include the GLBT Historical Society Arts Award, the prestigious Anonymous Was a Woman fellowship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow.This event is being presented by the Film & Electronic Arts and Studio Arts programs, and has been co-sponsored by the Fund for Diference.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film CenterThe River (1951, France/India/USA, 99 minutes, 35mm) Elena and her Men (1956, Italy/France, 95 minutes, 35mm)
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film CenterWhat Did the Lady Forget? (1937, Japan, 71 minutes, 35mm) The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952, Japan, 115 minutes, 35mm)
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film CenterWhat Did the Lady Forget? (1937, Japan, 71 minutes, 35mm) The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952, Japan, 115 minutes, 35mm)
Saturday, February 26, 2011
A Video Installation by Jesse Cain 456 Main Street Catskill, NY
Nightly Sunset to Sunrise
Opening reception 5 P.M. to 7 P.M. on Saturday, February 26
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film CenterRecord of a Tenement Gentleman (1947, Japan, 72 minutes, 35mm) Early Spring (1956, Japan, 144 minutes, 35mm)
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film CenterAn Inn in Tokyo, Yasujiro Ozu, 1935, Japan, 80 minutes, 35mm, silent Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family, Yasujiro Ozu, 1941, Japan, 105 minutes, 35mm, silent
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film CenterI Was Born But…, Yasujiro Ozu, 1931, Japan, 100 minutes, 35mm, silent Passing Fancy, Yasujiro Ozu, 1933, Japan, 100 minutes, 35mm, silent
Monday, December 13, 2010
Avery Art Center PERFORMANCE AND VIDEO (FILM 203) PRESENTS TWO NIGHTS OF LIVE MULTIMEDIA ART
Monday, December 13, 2010, 7:30-8:30 PM Allison Brainard • Sali Amabebe • George Glikerdas • Felix Bernstein • Alex Key • Jo Miller-Gamble
Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 7:30-8:30 PM Jonathan Rosen • Kim Shifrin • Kelsey Shell • Melissa Wynne • Lola Kirke • Will Tesdell
LOCATION: Studio X (Basement of Avery) Free and Open to the Public
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center Diane Torr will read from her book Sex, Drag and Male Roles: Investigating Gender as Performance (2010).
Diane is best known for her various male impersonations, such as Hamish McAllister, Danny King, Jack Sprat, Mister ‘EE’ and St. Sebastian, among others. She pioneered drag king culture in NYC with her 1990 workshops. Since then, she has brought her "Man for a Day" workshops to major cities throughout the US, Europe and Eurasia. She is one of the protagonists in Gabriel Baur’s feature film Venus Boyz (2002), and she co-directed the month-long godrag! festival at Tacheles, Berlin. Financed by Berlin’s Haupstadtkulturfonds, it was the first International Festival of women performing femininity, masculinity, androgyny, and drag.
Diane received her MFA from Bard College.
Friday, November 5, 2010
Screening Hou Hsiao-hsien’s City of Sadness To Be Held in the Ottaway Theater Avery Art Center The Bard College Film and Electronic Arts Department, in conjunction with the Asian Studies Program, will host a reception to celebrate the arrival of a new collection of 60 rare English-subtitled film prints from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO). These prints constitute a micro-history of Taiwanese cinema from the 1950s to the 1990s and will be available for both research and teaching purposes. The reception will be held on Friday, November 5, at 6:30 p.m. in the Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, Bard College. It will be followed by a screening of an imported 35mm print of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s City of Sadness (1989, 166 minutes), beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Ottaway Theater of the Avery Center for the Arts. Both the reception and the screening are free and open to the public.
Tony Ong, director of the Press Division of TECO in New York, expressed his great pleasure at having this opportunity to be part of a cultural exchange with Bard College. “We at TECO are overjoyed that these prints have found a home at Bard,” says Ong. “Here, they will be carefully preserved and will have the chance to be seen and studied by a wider range of individuals who are really passionate about film and Taiwanese culture. For us, this is a prime example of a really meaningful exchange, not only raising the intrinsic value of the prints themselves, but strengthening the cultural bonds between Taiwan and the U.S. I hope this will be the beginning of a long friendship between our office and Bard College.”
Richard Suchenski, assistant professor of film history who coordinated the acquisition of these prints, will be supervising the collection, which he described as a major contribution to Bard College. “The Taiwanese cinema of the 1980s and 1990s was one of the strongest in the world, and this collection reflects the range and sophistication of filmmaking in Taiwan both before and during that period. A dedicated, temperature-controlled storage facility is being constructed to house the new print collection, which, as the largest donation of its kind to Bard, will greatly expand the size, importance, and function of the film archive. City of Sadness is one of the most artistically and historically significant films made anywhere in the last quarter-century, and it is also the best possible introduction to the richness of Taiwanese cinema,” says Suchenski. “The special screening of a new, English-subtitled 35mm print is the perfect way to celebrate this very generous gift and what I hope will be the beginning of a lasting relationship with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office.”
For more information or to reserve seats, please email Richard Suchenski at [email protected]. To download high-resolution images, please go to: www.bard.edu/news/press#
including a special 35mm screening of City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989) Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center The Bard College Film and Electronic Arts Department, in conjunction with the Asian Studies Program, will host a reception to celebrate the arrival of a new collection of 60 rare English-subtitled film prints - a micro-history of Taiwanese cinema from the 1950s to the 1990s - from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO). The reception will be held on Friday, November 5, at 6:30 p.m. in the Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, Bard College. It will be followed by a screening of an imported 35mm print of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s City of Sadness (1989, 166 minutes), beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Ottaway Theater of the Avery Center for the Arts. City of Sadness is one of the most artistically and historically significant films made anywhere in the last quarter-century, and it is also the best possible introduction to the richness of Taiwanese cinema.
Both the reception and the screening are free and open to the public. Please email Richard Suchenski at [email protected] with any questions or to reserve seats.
Reception to celebrate the new print collection: 6:30 PM 35mm screening of City of Sadness: 7:30 PM
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film CenterThe Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk, 1957, 91 minutes) and Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967, 87 minutes)
35mm film prints
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center Special screening of Edward Yang's epic film. (1991, Taiwan, 224 minutes) 35mm film print
Monday, October 18, 2010
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center Artist and cinematographer Arthur Jafa will talk about his recent work, and about the new realities of digital filmmaking.
From http://www.blackculturalstudies.org/: Arthur Jafa is a cultural critic/worker, visual artist and an African diasporic organic intellectual of the first order. His infrequently published thinking around questions of Black cultural politics, Black cultural nationalism, and film is visionary. Those who found such clarity of vision in his contribution to Michele Wallace's Black Popular Culture volume (edited by Gina Dent and assembled following the conference of the same name at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1992) have been eager to hear his thoughts.
As a cinematographer, he has done work with Julie Dash on Daughters of the Dust, as well as Spike Lee's Crooklyn , and Manthia Diawara's "Rouch In Reverse" One of Jafa's projects is the development of what he calls "black visual intonation". His ideas concerning this project may be found in his "69" essay in Black Popular Culture. Jafa is interested in the ways in which a Black film culture can be developed that responds and reflects black ways of life in the diaspora and investigating what he calls "Black artifical intelligence".
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center Deep Leap Mocrocinema: Zaum/Beyonsense
Ecstatic contemporary American video art by Bard amumni Zachary Epcar, Ian Jones, and Max Juren, as well as Mary Helena Clark, Joe Sandler, Meghan O'Hara, Ted Passon, and more.
Curator (and Bard alumnus) Jesse Malmed will be in attendance.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center A talk by filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky and a screening of two recent films: Compline and Pastourelle
Monday, September 13, 2010
Performance of "Body ÷ Mind + 7 = Spirit" Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center Combining live action and projected video, "Body ÷ Mind + 7 = Spirit" weaves an abstract narrative out of exercise equipment, carpal tunnel therapy, Goddess worship, health and beauty logos, the thousand-hand Bhodisattva dance, and an affinity with the main character in Brian DePalma's Carrie.
Moulton will also be screening and discussing several of her video works.
About the artist: http://www.eai.org/artistTitles.htm?id=10320
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Screenings and Installations Avery Art Center Installations: (Integrated Arts Room - Avery 116.)
William Rennekamp: Sunday, May 2 - Saturday, May 8 Kirsty Hughan: Sunday, May 9 - Saturday, May 15
Screenings: (Jim Ottaway, Jr. Theater.)
Saturday, May 1
7:00 p.m. Avery Fox, Louis Silverstein
Friday, May 7
7:00 p.m. Samuel Hayes, Jake Magee, Ross Saxon (reading), Nicholas Shore
Saturday May 8th
7:00 p.m. Perry Allen, Brian Barth, Robyn Ellis
Friday May 14th
7:00 p.m. Dylan Clancy, Lei Fu, Meredith Markham Erik Marika-Rich, Doug Moses, Alex Roberts
Talk by Jonathan Walley, Assistant Professor of Cinema, Denison University Avery Art Center With a screening of Andy Warhol’s Haircut (No. 1)Abstract:Andy Warhol once said of his films, “They’re better talked about than seen.” While we might take this as yet another outrageous, possibly ironic Warhol pronouncement (“I like boring things,” “I’d like to be a machine,” etc.), the fact is that much of the critical discourse on Warhol’s cinema has been based on second-hand accounts and popular myths rather than on a direct encounter with the films themselves. Out of circulation for years, and often considered impossible to watch in the first place, the films have indeed been replaced by talk, which has often been marked by misrepresentation, exaggeration, oversimplification, and confusion. Far from lamenting this situation, many filmmakers and critics have taken the unseen, “invisible” status of Warhol’s films as their essential condition, validating Warhol’s provocative statement and reinventing the films as “conceptual cinema”: cerebral rather than celluloid. This talk offers corrections to some of the major myths about Warhol’s films, emphasizing close viewing rather than indirect imagining. The concrete material and formal properties of the films turn out to be as complex, subtle, and interesting as the critical mythology that has developed in their absence. At the same time, however, this talk takes seriously the possibility of a “conceptual cinema,” tracing the development of this idea through the history of post-Warhol avant-garde film. Professor Walley is an alumnus if the Bard College Film and Electronic Arts program.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center Please join us for a screening of "Cowboy Song" by Marie Regan (faculty, Film and Electronic Arts)
A personal documentary about brain damage,masculinity and family framed against expectations of the American West.Marie will be introducing the film, and a discussion will follow.