Alison Nguyen Featured in Art in America’s “New Talent 2025” Issue and Profiled in ArtNews
Visiting Assistant Professor of Film Alison Nguyen was featured in Art in America’s "New Talent 2025" Issue, a list of 20 emerging artists to watch. Alongside this honor, Nguyen was profiled in ArtNews.
Alison Nguyen Featured in Art in America’s “New Talent 2025” Issue and Profiled in ArtNews
Visiting Assistant Professor of Film Alison Nguyen was featured in Art in America’s "New Talent 2025" Issue, a list of 20 emerging artists to watch. Alongside this honor, Nguyen was profiled in ArtNews. Since 2021, Art in America has chosen 20 new artists who are significant figures in their field from around the world. Nguyen’s art uses sculpture and video to combine personal details with an exploration into broader forces of technology and history.
For ArtNews, Beatrice Loayza writes about Nguyen’s installation History as Hypnosis and Andra8, Nguyen’s machine-learning program which she cast as a human woman in My Favorite Software Is Being Here. “[Nguyen’s] video works, which explore American mythologies, visual culture, and digital labor practices, unfold uncanny worlds from shreds of history,” she writes.
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 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.
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.