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.”
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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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,” says Sia.
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/.
Art Newspaper Spoke with James Fuentes ’98 About His Gallery’s Move to Tribeca
“James Fuentes Gallery, long a forward-looking presence in the contemporary art scene on New York’s Lower East Side, is the latest space to decamp to Tribeca,” writes Jillian Billard for the Art Newspaper. The eponymous gallery of alumnus James Fuentes ’98, who will be awarded the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters at this year’s Bard College Awards, has long championed “artists with practices outside the commercial conventions of the contemporary art market.” This curatorial focus, Fuentes says, was first furnished at Bard. “I kind of picked up this idea of curating as a profession through osmosis, studying adjacent to the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies and spending time in the library founded by Marieluise Hessel,” Fuentes says. “The program planted a seed.”
Bard Film Professor A. Sayeeda Moreno Awarded Residency by Provincetown Film Institute
A. Sayeeda Moreno, assistant professor of Film and Electronic Arts at Bard, was honored with a one-week residency to develop her upcoming feature film, Out in the Dunes, a coming-of-age romance set in 1990s Provincetown on Cape Cod. Immersing herself in the locale, she explored Provincetown to seek enrichment for her screenplay. Sayeeda also showcased three of her short films, Sin Salida, Bina, and White, at the Provincetown International Film Festival followed by a Q&A session, sharing the intricacies of her creative process as a writer and director with an engaged audience. The Provincetown Film Institute Women’s Residency Program offers established women-identifying filmmakers from around the world the opportunity to work in Provincetown during the off-season alongside other artists and writers who use the solitude of the outer Cape Cod area as inspiration for their work. Residents are selected by a panel of film industry professionals and given a small travel stipend, lodging, and roundtrip travel from Boston.
Dune shack on Cape Cod where Moreno spent her residency. Photo by A. Sayeeda Moreno
A. Sayeeda Moreno is a director and screenwriter whose award-winning short films and screenplays are nourished by the mythology of the New York City metropolis where she was born, and the exhilarating cast of characters that filtered through her bohemian home. She documents and filters this World through her own body and a body of work that is character-driven, utilizing genre to illuminate our human experiences: how we survive, what is in opposition to us, what our mind grapples with, and how we love. Sayeeda is a Film Independent, Sundance Women in Finance, and Tribeca All Access Fellow and earned her MFA in Film from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts as a dean’s fellow. She is developing her feature film Out in the Dunes and has been an assistant professor in Film and Electronic Arts at Bard College since 2018.
Bard Film Professor Ephraim Asili Wins $50,000 Creative Capital Award
Ephraim Asili MFA ’11, associate professor of film and electronic arts and director of the Film and Electronic Arts Program, has won a 2024 Creative Capital Award for $50,000 to support his documentary film Eternal Rhythm. Creative Capital Awards provide artists with unrestricted project funding up to $50,000, bespoke professional development services, and community-building opportunities.
Eternal Rhythm explores the personal and artistic relationship between Don and Moki Cherry after the couple moved from New York to Moki’s native Sweden in 1970. There they began a decade-long collaboration that merged multicultural expressions of art, music, and radical living into a synergetic model for communal creativity.
Creative Capital’s “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact” Awards in Visual Arts and Film/Moving Image total $2.5 million in grants to artists for the creation of 50 groundbreaking new works. Chosen from 5,600 applications, this year’s awards will fund 28 innovative visual arts projects and 22 film/moving image projects, representing 54 artists in total.
Bard Faculty Members and Alumni/ae Awarded 2023 MacDowell Fellowships
Two Bard faculty members and two alumni/ae are recipients of MacDowell Fellowships. Carl Elsaesser, visiting artist in residence at Bard College in Film and Electronic Arts, has been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship to MacDowell's Residency Program in the Film/Video Artists category for fall/winter 2023. Elsaesser’s residency will support the completion of his project, Coastlines, a feature-length film that intertwines the ethnographic intricacies of Maine’s coastline with the intimate video diaries of a Portland family, inviting a reevaluation of evolving identities and artistic representation within the private and public spheres. Drawing from queer phenomenology and traditional historical narratives, the film challenges perceptions and redefines the boundaries of storytelling, revealing Maine’s dual role as a backdrop and active participant in shaping inhabitants’ sense of self.
Daaimah Mubashshir, playwright in residence at Bard, received a MacDowell Fellowship in MacDowell’s Artist Residency Program for fall 2023 in Peterborough, New Hampshire, in support of their work on a new play about their great grandmother, Begonia Williams Tate, who defied all odds in Mobile, Alabama, in the late 19th century. Chaya Czernowin, a composer and Bard MFA ’88 in Music, and Bard alumna Hannah Beerman ’15, are also 2023 MacDowell Fellowship recipients. The MacDowell Fellowships are distributed by seven discipline-specific admissions panels who make their selections based on applicants’ vision and talent as reflected by work samples and a project description. Once at MacDowell, selected Fellows are provided a private studio, three meals a day, and accommodations for a period of up to six weeks.
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.