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SUMMARY:FSC Workshop with Filmmaker Marta Mateus | Evoking Language
DESCRIPTION:The Film Study Center is delighted to welcome Portuguese filmmaker Marta Mateus. In this workshop presentation\, we will explore sound and video installations as a formal exercise for investigating elements of cinema that extend beyond the traditional confines of the theater. This practice serves as a tool to expand our understanding of film and challenge preconceived notions of cinematic language. Drawing from experiences where images and sounds converge in both film and installation formats\, we will analyze how these mediums can help us transcend conventional boundaries\, transforming into dynamic experiences that enrich the creator’s exploration of narrative\, as well as time and space in film. \n\n\nFilmmaker and producer Marta Mateus (born 1984) studied philosophy\, drawing\, photography\, music\, and theater. Her first film\, Barbs\, Wasteland (2017)\, was shown at the Quinzaine des Cinéastes\, selected for various festivals\, and won the Grand Prize at Vila do Conde and Hiroshima. She has participated in several group exhibitions with video and sound installations. In 2018\, she was an artist-member of the Casa de Velázquez\, Académie de France à Madrid and created the production company Clarão Companhia. Her latest film\, Fire of Wind (2024)\, is her first feature film.\n \n\nThe Harvard Film Archive is currently presenting A Terra! The Cinema of Marta Mateus through October 27\, with the director in person October 25 and 27. \n\n\nRSVP to Cozette Russell for workshop location.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/fsc-workshop-with-filmmaker-marta-mateus-evoking-language/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250211T173000
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SUMMARY:The Personal Decolonization of my Cinematographic Glance: Masterclass with Rosine Mbakam
DESCRIPTION:Art helps shape our imagination\, our gaze and our thoughts. Cinema\, like other arts\, has contributed to the establishment of ideologies of domination\, forging an imaginary of the dominant and the dominated that endures to this day in our society. From generation to generation\, these ills are passed on\, unconsciously or consciously; they remain the same\, but take on new clothes. \nToday\, the word “decolonization” has been reclaimed and often used to deconstruct the rigidity of our society. And yet\, we are all part of this society\, and sometimes participate in its rigidity. Decolonization should start with ourselves. \nThis masterclass will examine how cinema can be a motor for questioning and deconstructing colonial patterns through a personal and intimate decolonization of your thinking\, your gaze\, your imagination\, your history. \nOpen to FSC fellows and CMP students. All others kindly RSVP to Cozette Russell\, cerussell (at) fas.harvard.edu
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/the-personal-decolonization-of-my-cinematographic-glance/
LOCATION:FSC\, Harvard Yard\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T200000
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SUMMARY:FSC Workshop: Jean-Pierre Bekolo | Afrofuturist Cinema's Quest for Immortality
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a workshop with McMillan-Stewart fellow\, Jean-Pierre Bekolo. In this workshop\, we critically reassess traditional cinematic practices against the backdrop of technological advancements and the rise of AI. Why should cinema adhere to conventional boundaries when technology and AI have transformed its production\, consumption\, and the world itself? The workshop prompts a reevaluation of cinema’s role in the face of profound changes and urges participants to question established approaches. Just as the world undergoes shifts in perception and relationship dynamics\, the workshop challenges participants to reconsider how cinema engages with the world\, especially concerning life\, death\, and the quest for immortality. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/workshop-jean-pierre-bekolo-afrofuturist-cinemas-quest-for-immortality/
LOCATION:Sever Hall 416\, 25 Harvard Yard\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T120000
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SUMMARY:Screening and Conversation with filmmaker Anand Patwardhan
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a special screening and conversation with filmmaker Anand Patwardhan\, a collaboration between the Film Study Center and Sensory Ethnography class. Patwardhan will visit with students and fellows and screen his documentary\, War and Peace\, on November 8. In addition to this event\, Patwardhan’s films are currently screening at the Harvard Film Archive. \n“For more than four decades\,” his 2020 New York Times Magazine profile notes\, Anand Patwardhan “has been India’s leading documentary filmmaker.” X-rays of Indian modernity\, his frequently expressionistic films tug at the frayed edges of an unraveling nation to reveal the threads—of class inequity\, casteism\, masculinity\, religious fundamentalism\, and nationalism—that warp and weft through the fabric of what the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party calls the New India.” –IDA \nAbout War and Peace: \nFilmed over four tumultuous years in India\, Pakistan\, Japan and the USA following nuclear tests in the Indian sub-continent\, War and Peace is a documentary journey of peace activism in the face of global militarism and war. The film is framed by the murder of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948\, an act whose portent and poignancy remains undiminished half a century later. For the filmmaker\, whose family was immersed in the non-violent Gandhian movement\, the sub-continent’s trajectory towards unabashed militarism is explored with sorrow though the film captures stories of resistance along the way. Amongst these is a visit to the “enemy country” of Pakistan\, where contrary to expectations\, Indian delegates are showered by affection not only by their counterparts in the peace movement but by uninitiated common folk. \nThe film moves on to examine the costs being extracted from citizens in the name of national security. From the plight of residents living near the nuclear test site to the horrendous effects of uranium mining on local indigenous populations\, it becomes abundantly clear that contrary to a myth first created by the U.S.A\, there is no such thing as the “peaceful Atom”. \nWar and Peace slips seamlessly from a description of home made jingoism to focus on how an aggressive United States has become a role model\, its doctrine of “Might is Right” only too well-absorbed by aspiring elites of the developing world. \nWar has become perennial\, enemies are re-invented and economies inextricably tied to the production and sale of weapons. In the moral wastelands of the world memories of Gandhi seem like a mirage that never was\, created by our thirst for peace and our very distance from it. \nOpen to FSC fellows\, CMP students\, and the AFVS community.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/screening-and-conversation-with-filmmaker-anand-patwardhan/
LOCATION:B04 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220926T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220926T203000
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SUMMARY:Scriptwriting For Working With Non-Professional Actors
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a workshop on scriptwriting and working with non-professional actors in non-fiction films. FSC fellows Khary Jones\, Karthik Pandian\, and Dominga Sotomayor\, together with visiting filmmaker Adirley Queirós\, will show excerpts of their films and talk about how they use writing in particular ways in their work. The conventions of scriptwriting are almost exclusively centered around the idea of writing for fiction\, but when you start filming\, you’re in a different place\, a site for an encounter with the real and with the people you film. We will discuss why writing for hybrid works and how to write a film to let reality and chaos in\, do away with your script\, and start over the first day of shooting. We will focus on writing for hybrid works between fiction and documentary and how writing can be integrated when working in non-fiction films and with non-professional actors. An open conversation prompted by the questions introduced by the filmmakers will follow. \nKhary Jones engages film projects that explore the tensions between fiction\, memory\, and everyday life.  His films and collaborations have screened at Sundance\, SXSW\, MoMA\, CIFF\, Full Frame\, ICA Boston\, and many other festivals and venues.  As a writer-director\, his work includes the short films Hug\, Three and a Half Thoughts\, Chrysalis\, and the forthcoming feature-length films Night Fight and Gumbo. Khary studied at Columbia University (MA\, MFA) and Morehouse College (BA)\, and he is currently a Professor of the Practice in Drama and Film at Tufts University where he teaches storytelling for the screen and advises students developing both scripted and documentary projects from inception to edit. \nKarthik Pandian is an artist who works in films\, exhibitions\, and public interventions to unsettle the ground of history. He uses moving image\, sculpture\, and performance to render the mythologies of the present through forgotten\, fragmentary\, and futuristic pasts. Karthik has held solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Bétonsalon\, Paris; and Midway Contemporary Art\, Minneapolis amongst others. Pandian is currently at work on a feature film – Lucid Decapitation – supported by a 2022 Creative Capital Award as well as a public performance in St. Paul produced in collaboration with Mike Forcia and Midway Contemporary Art. He teaches in the Department of Art\, Film\, and Visual Studies at Harvard University. \nAdirley Queirós is a filmmaker from Brazil. His latest film\, Dry Ground Burning\, premiered at the Berlinale Forum in February 2022\, won the Grand Prix at Cinema du Reel\, as well as the main awards at Indielisboa\, Athens Film Festival\, Dokufest\, among others\, and is now being shown at TIFF and the NYFF in North America\, where it will be distributed by Grasshopper Films. Adirley has previously written\, produced and directed three other features\, all shot in Ceilândia\, the periphery of Brasilia where he is from and lives: Once it was Brasilia\, The City is One Only?\, and White Out Black In. \nDominga Sotomayor is a film director\, writer\, and producer born in Santiago de Chile. Her first feature film Thursday till Sunday (2012) was developed at the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence\, and won the Tiger Award in the 41º Rotterdam Film Festival. For Too Late To Die Young(2018) she became the first woman to receive the Leopard for Best Direction at 71º Locarno Film Festival. Dominga is also one of the founders of the production company CINESTACIóN and artistic director at CCC\, Centro de Cine y Creación\, a new arthouse cinema and center in Santiago de Chile. \nOpen to FSC fellows and CMP students
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/scriptwriting-for-working-with-non-professional-actors/
LOCATION:Sever Hall 416\, Harvard Yard\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220920T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220920T170000
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SUMMARY:Filmmaking from the Archive: A Conversation with filmmaker Leandro Listorti and archivist Amy Sloper
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a conversation between filmmaker Leandro Listorti and Harvard Film Archive collections archivist Amy Sloper. Listorti will discuss his most recent film\, Herbaria which\, through the use of both archival and current footage\, explores parallel worlds of cinema and plants. Herbaria will screen the previous night\, September 19 at 7:00pm at the Harvard Film Archive. \nLeandro Listorti is an Argentinian filmmaker\, programmer\, and archivist. From 2005 to 2015\, he worked as a programmer at BAFICI and is a founding member of ARCA (Archivo Regional de Cine Amateur) and a co-founder of the production company Maravillacine. He currently manages the film archive at the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires\, from which he culled pieces of unfinished films to compose his previous work\, The Endless Film (2018)\, a film fashioned out of the culture of disappearance in Argentina and its effect on film history. His latest film\, Herbaria (2022)\, has screened at numerous festivals and won awards at Visions du Réel\, Pesaro International Festival of New Cinema\, and New Horizons International Film Festival. \nOpen to FSC fellows\, CMP students\, and the AFVS community.\nKindly RSVP to program coordinator\, Cozette Russell at cerussell@fas.harvard.edu
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/filmmaking-from-the-archive-a-conversation-with-filmmaker-leandro-listorti-and-archivist-amy-sloper/
LOCATION:Sever Hall 416\, Harvard Yard\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210427T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210427T190000
DTSTAMP:20210127T214357Z
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SUMMARY:The FSC Nonfiction Workshop presents Ephraim Asili
DESCRIPTION:Ephraim Asili will be discussing his most recent work\, the acclaimed feature The Inheritance\, as well as the short Many Thousands Gone. \nEphraim Asili is a Filmmaker\, DJ\, and Traveler whose work focuses on the African diaspora as a cultural force. His films have screened in festivals and venues all over the world\, including the New York Film Festival\, NY; Toronto International Film Festival\, Canada; Ann Arbor Film Festival\, MI; San Francisco International Film Festival\, CA; Milano Film Festival\, Italy; International Film Festival Rotterdam\, Netherlands; MoMA PS1\, NY; LAMOCA\, CA; Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, MA; and the Whitney Museum\, NY. As a DJ\, Asili can be heard on his radio program In The Cut on WGXC\, or live at his monthly dance party Botanica. Asili currently resides in Hudson\, NY\, and is a Professor in the Film and Electronic Arts Department at Bard College. (Video Data Bank) \nThis spring\, the FSC will be hosting (remotely) a series of visiting filmmakers as part of our Nonfiction Workshop. Invited filmmakers will circulate links to their films in advance so that we can watch them on our own\, and we will get together as a group to have a conversation about their work. As many of these works are in progress or yet to be released theatrically\, we have limited capacity in terms of the number of participants we are able to accommodate. If you are interested in attending (and are not currently a FSC fellow or CMP student)\, please email Cozette Russell.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/the-fsc-nonfiction-workshop-presents-ephraim-asili/
LOCATION:via Zoom\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210323T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210323T173000
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SUMMARY:The FSC Nonfiction Workshop presents Eduardo Williams
DESCRIPTION:The 2021 recipient of the FSC Fulton Fellowship\, Eduardo “Teddy” Williams will be joining us to discuss his feature\, The Human Surge\, as well as a curated program of shorts\, including his latest work\, Parsi. \nEduardo Williams (b. 1987\, Argentina) studied at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires\, before joining Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in France in 2012. Williams’ shorts films Pude ver un puma (2011) and Que je tombe tout le temps? (2013) premiered at Cinéfondation and Director’s Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival\, followed by Tôi quên rồi! (2014) which had it’s premiere at FID Marseille. His first feature\, El auge del humano (2016)\, won the Pardo d’oro for Best Film at Filmmakers of the Present at the 69th Locarno Film Festival and was later shown at Toronto International Film Festival – Wavelengths\, New York Film Festival – Projections\, Tate Modern and other festivals. In 2016 he directed Allons-y! (45’) for the Festival de l’image en mouvement Hors Pistes at Centre Pompidou. In 2019 he received the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists. His last short film Parsi (2018) was produced by the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève for the Biennale de l’image en Mouvement 2018 and premiered at Berlinale – Forum Expanded\, it was shown at Tate Modern\, Julia Stoscheck Collection\, Lincoln Center and other festivals and museums. \nThis spring\, the FSC will be hosting (remotely) a series of visiting filmmakers as part of our Nonfiction Workshop. Invited filmmakers will circulate links to their films in advance so that we can watch them on our own\, and we will get together as a group to have a conversation about their work. As many of these works are in progress or yet to be released theatrically\, we have limited capacity in terms of the number of participants we are able to accommodate. If you are interested in attending (and are not currently a FSC fellow or CMP student)\, please email Cozette Russell.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/the-fsc-nonfiction-workshop-presents-eduardo-williams/
LOCATION:via Zoom\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210223T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210223T190000
DTSTAMP:20210127T214752Z
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SUMMARY:The FSC Nonfiction Workshop presents Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
DESCRIPTION:Puerto Rican filmmaker Beatriz Santiago Muñoz will join us to discuss a program of her films. In her work in film and video\, “the uncontrived\, observational style of her art aligns it with the sensibility of documentary film while also blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction. Despite its ostensible simplicity\, Santiago Muñoz’s work stems from intensive research\, observation\, and documentation\, and she is deeply concerned with the tension between the documentarian’s desire for truth and the artist’s aesthetic concerns. For her\, the camera as a tool that can both reveal and fabricate reality.” (Guggenheim) \nBeatriz Santiago Muñoz is an artist whose expanded moving image work is entangled with Boalian theater\, experimental ethnography and expanded cinema. She tends to work with non-actors\, and incorporate improvisation into her process. Her recent work is on the sensorial unconscious of anti-colonial movements\, on hurricanes and dreamwork\, and irrational projection lenses. Recent solo exhibitions include: Gosila\, Der Tank\, Basel; Nuevos Materiales\, Museo Amparo; Safehouse\, Sullivan Galleries\, A Universe of Fragile Mirrors\, PAMM\, Miami; Song Strategy Sign\, New Museum; La Cabeza Mató a Todos\, TEORética\, San José\, Costa Rica; MATRULLA\, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros\, México D.F. Recent group exhibitions include: Whitney Biennial 2017\, NYC; Prospect 4\, New Orleans; 8th Contour Biennale\, Mechelen. Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today\, Guggenheim Museum\, NYC. In 2017 she received the Tiffany Comfort Foundation Grant\, she was 2016 USA Ford Fellow and received a 2015 Creative Capital visual artist grant. \nThis spring\, the FSC will be hosting (remotely) a series of visiting filmmakers as part of our Nonfiction Workshop. Invited filmmakers will circulate links to their films in advance so that we can watch them on our own\, and we will get together as a group to have a conversation about their work. As many of these works are in progress or yet to be released theatrically\, we have limited capacity in terms of the number of participants we are able to accommodate. If you are interested in attending (and are not currently a FSC fellow or CMP student)\, please email Cozette Russell.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/the-fsc-nonfiction-workshop-presents-beatriz-santiago-munoz/
LOCATION:via Zoom\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210202T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210202T190000
DTSTAMP:20210126T050358Z
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SUMMARY:The FSC Nonfiction Workshop presents Ernst Karel and Veronika Kusumaryati
DESCRIPTION:The FSC is excited to kick off the spring semester of Nonfiction Workshops with a project and makers deeply connected to the history of the FSC: Ernst Karel and Veronika Kusumaryati will be with us to discuss their film/sound work Expedition Content. \nExpedition Content\n2020\, DCP\, 78 minutes \nIn 1961\, filmmaker Robert Gardner organized the Harvard Peabody Expedition to Netherlands New Guinea (current day West Papua). Funded by the Dutch colonial government and private donations\, and consisting of several of the wealthiest members of American society wielding 16mm film cameras\, still photographic cameras\, reel-to-reel tape recorders\, and a microphone\, the expedition settled for five months in the Baliem Valley\, among the Hubula (also known as Dani) people. It resulted in Gardner’s highly influential film Dead Birds\, two books of photographs\, Peter Matthiessen’s book Under the Mountain Wall\, and two ethnographic monographs. Michael Rockefeller\, a fourth-generation member of the Rockefeller (Standard Oil) family\, was tasked with taking pictures and recording sound in and around the Hubula world. Expedition Content is an augmented sound work composed from the archive’s 37 hours of tape which document the strange encounter between the expedition and the Hubula people. The piece reflects on intertwined and complex historical moments in the development of approaches to multimodal anthropology\, in the lives of the Hubula and of Michael\, and in the ongoing history of colonialism in West Papua. \nThis spring\, the FSC will be hosting (remotely) a series of visiting filmmakers as part of our Nonfiction Workshop. Invited filmmakers will circulate links to their films in advance so that we can watch them on our own\, and we will get together as a group to have a conversation about their work. As many of these works are in progress or yet to be released theatrically\, we have limited capacity in terms of the number of participants we are able to accommodate. If you are interested in attending (and are not currently a FSC fellow or CMP student)\, please email Cozette Russell.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/the-fsc-nonfiction-workshop-presents-ernst-karel-and-veronika-kusumaryati/
LOCATION:via Zoom\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200210T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200210T133000
DTSTAMP:20200210T205448Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch Discussion: Art & Science
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lunch discussion around the intersections of art and science with special guest Janina Lange\, visiting artist and Film Study Center Fellow . Kindly RSVP by Feb. 5 and email Cozette if you have any dietary requests. Open to CMP students and FSC Fellows.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/lunch-discussion-art-science-2/
LOCATION:M12 Sever Hall\, Sever Hall\, M12\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Lunch Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190918T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190918T183000
DTSTAMP:20190917T202438Z
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Juan Maidagan
DESCRIPTION:Juan Maidagan of the Berlin-based visual arts duo Zinny Maidagan will talk about his film work as well as their collaborative work creating large-scale\, site-specific public art interventions\, in conversation with Matt Saunders\, Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of the Humanities. \n 
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/artist-talk-juan-maidagan/
LOCATION:Sever Hall 416\, 25 Harvard Yard\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190418T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190418T200000
DTSTAMP:20190328T210623Z
CREATED:20190115T011828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190328T210623Z
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Amar Kanwar
DESCRIPTION:Amar Kanwar has distinguished himself through films and multi-media works\, which explore the politics of power\, violence and justice. His multi-layered installations originate in narratives often drawn from zones of conflict and are characterized by a unique poetic approach to the personal\, social and political. \n  \nRecent solo exhibitions of Kanwar’s work have been held at the Tate Modern\, London (2018)\, Bildmuseet\, Umea\, Sweden (2017)\, Marian Goodman Gallery\, London\, England (2017)\, Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan\, Mumbai (2016) and at the Assam State Museum in collaboration with Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and North East Network\, India (2015). In 2013 and 2014 at the Art Institute of Chicago\, USA; the Yorkshire Sculpture Park\, U.K.; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA 21)\, Vienna\, Austria and at the Fotomuseum Winterthur\, Switzerland (2012). \n  \nRecent group exhibitions have been presented at the Documenta 14\, Athens & Kassel (2017)\, The Garden Sees\, Megaron\, Athens (2017)\, #Resist\, Goethe-Gallery & Black Box Studio\, Hong Kong (2017)\, Devi Art Foundation with Salima Hashmi (2016)\, Kemper Art Museum\, St. Louis\, USA (2014); Kiran Nadar Museum of Art\, New Delhi\, India (2014); 56th Carnegie International\, USA (2013); Guggenheim Museum\, New York\, USA (2013 and 2012); 13th Istanbul Biennial\, Turkey (2013); 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art\, Russia (2013); 11th Sharjah Biennale\, UAE (2013); 1st Kochi Biennale\, India (2013); Tarra Warra Museum of Art\, Victoria\, Australia (2013) and the Bristol Museum\, U.K. (2013). \n  \nKanwar has also participated in Documenta 11\, 12\, 13 and 14 in Kassel\, Germany (2002\, 2007\, 2012\, 2017). Other solo exhibitions have been at the Stedelijk Museum\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands (2008); the Whitechapel Art Gallery\, London\, U.K. (2007); the National Museum of Art\, Architecture and Design\, Oslo\, Norway (2006) and the Renaissance Society\, Chicago\, USA (2004). \n  \nAmar Kanwar has been the recipient of awards such as the Prince Claus Award (2017); Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change (2014); an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts\, Maine College of Art\, USA (2006); the Edvard Munch Award for Contemporary Art\, Norway (2005); the MacArthur Fellowship in India (2000); the Golden Gate Award\, San Francisco International Film Festival\, USA (1999)\, as well as the Golden Conch\, Mumbai International Film Festival\, India (1998). \n  \nRetrospectives of his films have been held at film festivals including the 5th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala\, Kerala State (2012)\, the 13th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival (2011)\, the Documentary Dream Show\, Tokyo (2010)\, the Parallel Perspectives Film Festival\, Hyderabad (2008)\, and the 9th International Short Film Festival\, Bangladesh (2005). \nThis event is in collaboration with the Harvard Film Archive\, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts\, and The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute\, Harvard University.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/artist-talk-amar-kanwar/
LOCATION:Carpenter Center Theater\, CCVA\, level 0\, 24 Quincy Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190402T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190402T160000
DTSTAMP:20210108T000423Z
CREATED:20190114T234925Z
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SUMMARY:FSC-Radcliffe Fellows’ Presentation: Fern Silva
DESCRIPTION:Fern Silva’s films juxtapose the structures and industries of globalism. He is drawn to subjects that defy national identity through mythology\, mysticism\, and historical accounts\, and his films consider uncanny and animistic approaches to narrative\, ethnographic\, and documentary filmmaking as the starting point for structural experimentation. \n  \nAt Radcliffe\, Silva is editing his first feature film\, Sacred Sights. As lava continues to flow from Kilauea on the island of Hawaii—posing an imminent danger—an existential crisis mounts for native Hawaiians: astronomers plan to build the world’s largest telescope on the burial grounds of their most sacred and revered ancestors. Based on ancient Hawaiian mythology and the observatory’s ability to teach us about the origins of our own galaxy\, Sacred Sights serves as a sonic and visual representation of this complex dichotomy. \n  \nSilva’s body of film\, video\, and projection work has been exhibited at various venues\, including the Berlin\, Hong Kong\, Locarno\, London\, New York\, Rotterdam\, and Toronto film festivals; Anthology Film Archives; Centre Pompidou; Cinemateca Boliviana; MoMA PS1; Museo de Arte de Lima; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; and the New Museum. His work has been featured in publications including Cinema Scope\, Film Comment\, Filmmaker magazine\, and Senses of Cinema. He has received support from the Jerome Foundation\, the MacDowell Colony\, the New York State Council on the Arts\, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. A faculty member at Bennington College\, he received his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and his MFA from Bard College.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/fsc-radcliffe-fellows-presentation-fern-silva/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts\, level 0\, 24 Quincy Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190213T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190213T170000
DTSTAMP:20210108T001039Z
CREATED:20190114T233745Z
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SUMMARY:FSC-Radcliffe Fellows’ Presentation: Ja'Tovia Gary
DESCRIPTION:Ja’Tovia Gary is currently at work on her debut feature-length documentary film\, tentatively titled “The Evidence of Things Not Seen\,” which explores notions of family\, memory\, and ancestral inheritance. \n  \nGary is an artist and filmmaker living and working in Brooklyn\, New York. Her work seeks to liberate the distorted histories through which black life is often viewed while fleshing out a nuanced and multivalent black interiority. Through documentary film\, experimental video\, and installation\, Gary charts the ways structures of power shape our perceptions around representation\, race\, gender\, sexuality\, and violence. \n  \nGary earned her MFA in social documentary filmmaking from the School of Visual Arts\, in New York City. Her work has screened at such festivals as the Ann Arbor Film Festival\, the Edinburgh International Film Festival\, Frameline\, Inside Out\, and the New Orleans Film Festival. Gary’s work is part of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s permanent collection and has been exhibited at cultural institutions worldwide\, including the Brooklyn Museum; Goldsmiths\, University of London; the Hammer Museum; the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston; MoMA PS1; the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art; NYU Florence; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Her work has received support from DOC Society\, the Jerome Foundation\, and Sundance Institute. In 2016\, Gary participated in the Terra Summer Residency program\, in Giverny\, France. Filmmaker magazine recently named her among its 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2017.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/fsc-radcliffe-fellows-presentation-jatovia-gary/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts\, level 0\, 24 Quincy Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180928T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180928T150000
DTSTAMP:20210108T001404Z
CREATED:20180927T224020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210108T001404Z
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SUMMARY:Master Class: Ali Cherri
DESCRIPTION:Ali Cherri\, a Beirut-and-Paris based visual and video artist whose work traces correspondences between political and geological disasters in Lebanon and neighboring territories will give a Master Class on selected installation projects\, walking participants through his detailed process for making them. Ali Cherri was the 2016-17 Robert E. Fulton III Fellow at the Film Study Center. \n  \nCherri’s recent solo exhibitions include Somniculus at Jeu de Paume\, Paris and CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (2017); Tretyakov Gallery Moscow (Sep. 2017); Galerie Imane Farès (Oct. 2017); Jönköpings läns museum\, Sweden (2017); Sursock Museum\, Beirut (2016) and his films have been shown in International Film Festivals including New Directors/New Films MoMA NY; Cinéma du Réel\, Centre Pompidou; CPH:DOX (winner of NewVision Award); Dubai International Film Festival (winner Best Director); VideoBrasil (Southern Panorama Award); Berlinale; Toronto International Film Festival & San Francisco International Film Festival amongst others. \n  \nEnrollment limited to 35 with priority given to current Film Study Center fellows and Critical Media Practice students. RSVP required.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/ali-cherri-master-class/
LOCATION:Sever Hall 416\, 25 Harvard Yard\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180927T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180927T200000
DTSTAMP:20210108T001427Z
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Ali Cherri
DESCRIPTION:Working across a wide range of different media\, Lebanese artist Ali Cherri (b. 1976) has steadily explored his native land as a political\, geographical\, climatic and religious territory. Whether investigating archaeological and sacred sites\, borders or seismic fault lines\, Cherri has searched for new ways to map and imagine Lebanon and its place within the Middle East. His recent solo exhibitions include Somniculus at Jeu de Paume\, Paris and CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (2017); Galerie Imane Farès (Oct. 2017); and Sursock Museum\, Beirut (2016). His films have been shown in International Film Festivals including New Directors/New Films MoMA NY; Cinéma du Réel\, Centre Pompidou; CPH:DOX (winner of NewVision Award) amongst others. Ali Cherri lives and works in Paris and Beirut. \n  \nIn collaboration with Harvard Film Archive and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. \n 
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/artist-talk-ali-cherri/
LOCATION:Level 3\, Bookshop\, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts\, 24 Quincy Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171018T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171018T193000
DTSTAMP:20210108T003246Z
CREATED:20171104T234838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210108T003246Z
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SUMMARY:Screening & Artist Talk: LINEFORK a film by Jeff Silva & Vic Rawlings
DESCRIPTION:LINEFORK (2017)\nRecorded by: Jeff Silva and Vic Rawlings\nSound Design & Mix: Ernst Karel\nFeaturing: Lee & Opal Sexton\nFilmmakers present \nAn immersive meditation on the passage of time and the persistent resonance of place\, LINEFORK follows the daily rituals of an elderly couple living in Kentucky’s Appalachian Mountains. Now well into his eighties\, Lee Sexton is the last living link to the distant past of a regional American music. A retired coal miner with black lung\, Lee and his wife\, Opal\, continue to farm the land where he was born. Together they face encroaching health concerns and stark economic realities. Recorded over three years\, LINEFORK is an observational film documenting their marriage\, their community\, their resilience\, and the raw yet delicate music of an unheralded banjo legend\, linked to the past yet immediately present.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/screening-artist-talk-linefork-a-film-by-jeff-silva-vic-rawlings/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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