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SUMMARY:Workshop: Basic Color Grading with DaVinci Resolve 16
DESCRIPTION:In this hands-on workshop\, Joana Pimenta will go over the basic principles of color correcting on DaVinci Resolve 16 and how to operate the DaVinci Resolve Micro Panel available at FSC/CMP (which can be used with DaVinci Resolve 16 for color correction). Please bring footage you would like to work on. \nThis workshop is for CMP students and FSC fellows\, kindly RSVP.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/basic-color-grading-with-davinci-resolve-16/
LOCATION:Vanserg 114\, 29 Francis Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200210T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200210T133000
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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:20191118T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191118T213000
DTSTAMP:20210107T234949Z
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SUMMARY:Screening: Atlantique by Mati Diop
DESCRIPTION:Atlantique\nDirected by Mati Diop.\nWith Mame Sane\, Amadou Mbow\, Traoré.\nBelgium/France/Senegal \, 2019\, DCP\, color\, 105 min.\nFrench and Wolof with English subtitles. \nThe stunning debut feature by actress-turned-filmmaker Mati Diop is a bewitching tale of longing focused on a young Senegalese woman gripped by her forbidden love for an exploited construction worker who abruptly emigrates to Europe but seems to be lingering mysteriously behind. Melding supernatural fiction with a clear-eyed vision of the migrant crisis\, Atlantique—which began\, in fact\, as a documentary short—gives unique resonance to an urgent issue reshaping communities across Europe and Africa today. A surprise but well-deserved winner of the coveted Grand Prix at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival\, Atlantique establishes Diop as a central figure in a new wave of politically charged yet lyrically shaped art cinema that is reorienting contemporary filmmaking towards bold new directions. – HG \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard Film Archive \nMati Diop is no longer able to appear in person.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/screening-atlantique-by-mati-diop/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, 24 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191104T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191104T170000
DTSTAMP:20191017T191945Z
CREATED:20190910T224020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191017T191945Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Microphone Selection and Technique
DESCRIPTION:High-quality sound is one of the most frequently overlooked factors in film and video production. It’s half of the equation in audiovisual terms\, yet image often plays a dominant role. The Film Study Center possesses a wide array of microphones and sonic transducers – available for loan to current FSC fellows and students of Critical Media Practice – to aid in the production of immersive and nuanced soundtracks or audio-only works. \nLike any tool\, one must understand how a microphone functions and which applications it is best suited to fully reap its benefits. In this workshop\, led by FSC Film and Video Technician Stefan Grabowski\, we will discuss a variety of microphone designs and their ideal uses\, whether you’re wanting to conduct interviews in controlled spaces\, capture location sound in noisy outdoor environments\, or create complex aural textures by means of less conventional tools such as hydrophones\, contact microphones\, or parabolic reflectors. We will discuss different pickup patterns\, stereo configurations and microphone arrays\, and the characteristics of each of these. We will also cover basic recording techniques\, dealing with placement as well as ways to avoid handling and wind noise. \nThis workshop aims to inform participants about the microphone resources available to them through the Film Study Center and to inspire thoughtful\, creative audio projects and film sound design. For more comprehensive instruction on sound recording\, editing\, and mixing\, please consider taking a course such as Sonic Ethnography; For training on specific microphones\, individual appointments can be made with Stefan. \nNote: This workshop is limited to current FSC fellows and CMP students. Please RSVP.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/microphone-selection-and-technique/
LOCATION:Vanserg 111\, 29 Francis Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191021T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191021T200000
DTSTAMP:20191018T011256Z
CREATED:20190910T224020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191018T011256Z
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SUMMARY:Screening: Voices of the Rainforest with Steven Feld
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Documentary Educational Resources (DER)\, a center for documentary anthropology and ethnographic film based in nearby Watertown\, the Harvard Art Museums present the new documentary film “Voices of the Rainforest\,” in 7.1 surround sound. \nDirected and produced by acclaimed ethnomusicologist Steven Feld\, “Voices of the Rainforest” is an experiential documentary about the ecological and aesthetic coevolution of Papua New Guinea’s Bosavi rainforest region and its inhabitants. Through sound and image\, the film immerses viewers in the rainforest\, making myriad connections between the everyday sounds of the rainforest biosphere and the creative practices of the Bosavi people who sing to\, with\, and about it. \nThe film is based on Feld’s 1991 acousmatic composition of the same name\, which condensed 24 hours of sounds of the rainforest and the Bosavi people into an hour. Produced by Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart\, the piece was digitized and recomposed into a surround-sound experience and performed at the Harvard Art Museums in 2017. The success of the soundtrack prompted the digitization of Feld’s archive of Bosavi images and a two-month trip to Bosavi by Feld and filmmaker Jeremiah Richards\, who brought high-resolution cameras and drones to renew the project. \nFollowing the screening\, Steven Feld will discuss the film with Amahl Bishara\, associate professor of anthropology at Tufts University. \nCo-sponsored by Documentary Educational Resources\, the Peabody Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology\, the Film Study Center at Harvard University\, the Critical Media Practice secondary field\, and the Harvard Art Museums.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/film-voices-of-the-rainforest-with-steven-feld/
LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums\, Menschel Hall\, Lower Level\, 32 Quincy Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening & Artist Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191005T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191005T210000
DTSTAMP:20210119T210110Z
CREATED:20190909T002251Z
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SUMMARY:Mama Colonel by Dieudo Hamadi at the HFA
DESCRIPTION:Mama Colonel\nDirector in Person\n$12 Special Event Tickets/Free Admission for students with Harvard ID\nDirected by Dieudo Hamadi.\nDRC/France\, 2017\, DCP\, color\, 72 min.\nLingala\, Swahili and French with English subtitles. \nDieudo Hamadi is the 2019-20 McMillan-Stewart Fellow in Distinguished Filmmaking at the Film Study Center at Harvard University. \nFirst seen in Tolérance zero\, where she combatted violence against women in the context of a special police brigade\, Honorine Munyole\, now a colonel\, selflessly leads a vigorous campaign against rape and the mistreatment of children in the provincial capital of Bukavu. She has instated a number of mechanisms for their protection and solidarity\, including refuges for the most vulnerable. But she is transferred to a larger city\, Kisangani\, also Hamadi’s birthplace. Supported by a small group of police officers\, she has to convince residents to report the numerous crimes that take place in the city’s disadvantaged neighborhoods and find safe havens for those who need them. Two wounds are particularly active. One is the “six-day war” that ravaged the city in 2000\, during which many women were raped\, their husbands and sons killed\, and all their possessions destroyed or stolen. Some of them now find themselves with children born out of that atrocity. Another is that of a family structure in which men frequently disappear for multiple reasons\, which correlates with innumerable abuses inflicted on children who are then accused of sorcery to legitimate the mistreatment. With an impressive level of determination and skill\, and well aware of the limitations of her efforts\, Maman Colonelle tirelessly struggles against this tight web of poverty\, violence\, obscurantism and egotism. From the precinct to the slums\, from the markets where Colonel Honorine berates shopkeepers to negotiations with public figures looking to appropriate the benefits of her work\, and even into the privacy of her home\, Hamadi stays close by his heroine. She becomes a mirror for a diseased society\, but one that nonetheless pulsates with admirable forces of life.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/mcmillan-stewart-screening-mama-colonel-with-dieudo-hamadi/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, 24 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening & Artist Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191004T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191004T210000
DTSTAMP:20210119T210021Z
CREATED:20190909T002251Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210119T210021Z
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SUMMARY:Kinshasa Makambo by Dieudo Hamadi at the HFA
DESCRIPTION:Kinshasa Makambo\nDirector in Person\nReception following screening\n$12 Special Event Tickets/Free Admission to students with  Harvard ID\nDirected by Dieudo Hamadi.\nDRC/France/Switzerland/Germany/Qatar/Norway\, 2018\, DCP\, color\, 75 min.\nLingala and French with English subtitles. \nDieudo Hamadi is the 2019-20 McMillan-Stewart Fellow in Distinguished Filmmaking at the Film Study Center at Harvard University. \n“My country is an open-air prison\,” says Dieudo Hamadi. In 2015\, the constitution had provided for a least a change of prison warden\, but Joseph Kabila\, president dictator of the Democratic Republic of Congo\, decided to change the constitution. Young people from major cities flood the streets in a protest of unprecedented scale. The film follows three activists in particular: Christian\, Ben and Jean-Marie. In an impressive demonstration of physical courage\, on par with that of his subjects\, Dieudo Hamadi experiences at close range the deadly clashes with police and army\, who shoot with real bullets. But he is also embedded in the daily lives of these young people who receive regular threats and criticism from their families and must face the doubts and fears of a situation of extreme violence that seems unlikely to end. Kinshasa Makambo also reveals the internal debates of these protestors as they seek to extend their movement without succumbing to repression and coercion. Closely inscribed within a particular historical and geographical reality\, this film—whose director makes the unconditional choice throughout to remain next to his protagonists—also reflects more broadly on the forms of political engagement. \nAlthough they share in the same struggle\, the three protagonists do not have the same analysis on how to continue to their fight: one chooses to join an opposition political party\, which\, in spite of its limitations\, represents a possibility of acceding to power; another sticks to his uncompromising opposition to a corrupt system; the third looks to alternative forms of organization for possible answers. Through Hamadi’s lens\, these ideas take shape through words\, looks and gestures in an intensely vital and moving way. \nWe hope you will join us for a reception after the screening of “Kinshasa Makambo” on Friday\, Oct. 4th.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/mcmillan-stewart-screening-kinshasa-makambo/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, 24 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening & Artist Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190930T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190930T210000
DTSTAMP:20210119T205937Z
CREATED:20190709T002251Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210119T205937Z
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SUMMARY:Atalaku by Dieudo Hamadi at the HFA
DESCRIPTION:Atalaku\nDirected by Dieudo Hamadi.\nDRC/France\, 2013\, DCP\, color\, 60 min.\nLingala and French with English subtitles.\nDCP source: Swank \nDieudo Hamadi is the 2019-20 McMillan-Stewart Fellow in Distinguished Filmmaking at the Film Study Center at Harvard University. \nFilmed during the 2012 elections\, supposedly the first democratic elections since the nation’s independence in 1960\, Atalaku (“Town Criers”) describes with equal vigor the poor functioning of democracy within the country as well as a multiplicity of facets of daily life and human relationships that this circumstance helps reveal. The film follows three central protagonists. The first\, Gaylor\, is an ordinary pastor\, affiliate of a church where he exhorts his parishioners\, endlessly invoking the name of the Lord to convince women in the audience to donate money. He becomes a tout for candidates in the elections\, a “crier” who incites local residents to attend meetings for the political hopefuls who employ him; as he goes through the markets distributing small sums of money\, little electoral arguments entrusted to him by incumbents to the national assembly\, he keeps as much as he can for himself. The second protagonist is an orchestra of some twenty members\, young musicians who rehearse\, argue and get drunk in a vast cemetery. The third is a group of young women who belong to a citizens’ association; they canvas the streets explaining to people why and how to vote and supervise ballot procedure in polling stations. Through these encounters\, Atalaku captures the shameless use of bribes\, as well as the political passion of many citizens\, the misogyny still in force including among “democrats\,” and the force of a clergy imbued with mysticism. The film ends with the riots that stem from an electoral process so clearly marred by numerous irregularities\, and the repression that ensues. But it is the whole of relations to the electoral process that appears as biased\, ineffective and immoral\, even before the fraud that would bring dictator Joseph Kabila back to power. \nPRECEDED BY \nLadies in Waiting\nDirected by Dieudo Hamadi and Divita Wa Lusala.\nDRC/South Africa\, 2009\, 35mm\, color\, 24 min.\nFrench with English subtitles.\nPrint source: Swank \nThe first short in the omnibus Congo en 4 actes\, this film takes place in a maternity ward in Kinshasa—an environment familiar to Hamadi\, who studied medicine before turning his hand to filmmaking. Through the exemplary situation of women who have just given birth\, the film presents in detail the unbearable tension within a dysfunctional society\, marked at once by tremendous poverty and violence (which translates in particular to numerous rapes and children born of these rapes); the unrestrained commoditization of relationships; widespread corruption; and a litigious bureaucracy. Dames en attente focuses on the hospital accountant—whose job it is to collect birthing fees from women who cannot afford to pay—as she pleads a particularly dire case to the administration\, or even attempts to convince the children’s fathers (if they have not disappeared) to foot the bill. As witness to situations—occasionally extreme—that ordinarily remain hidden\, the film develops a rich portrait that refuses to pass judgment; instead\, it makes manifest the endless obstacles and dead-ends within a collective mechanism\, one not limited\, of course\, to maternity wards.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/mcmillan-screening-atalaku/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, 24 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190929T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190929T210000
DTSTAMP:20210119T205846Z
CREATED:20190709T002251Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210119T205846Z
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SUMMARY:Examen d'état (National Diploma) by Dieudo Hamadi at the HFA
DESCRIPTION:Examen d’état\n(National Diploma)\nDirected by Dieudo Hamadi.\nDRC/France\, 2014\, DCP\, color\, 92 min.\nDCP source: Icarus Films \nDieudo Hamadi is the 2019-20 McMillan-Stewart Fellow in Distinguished Filmmaking at the Film Study Center at Harvard University. \nThe high school exit examination\, which grants diplomas and allows entrance to university\, is perceived as a passport to a better life. A poor teenage orphan who works in the markets before and after school to survive\, Joël serves as a guide and conduit into the violent\, cynical and unjust world that is the final year of high school. Although they absolutely need\, or think they need\, to attend the last year of high school in order to have a chance on the exam\, the students who cannot afford to pay for the third trimester are ruthlessly excluded. The feeling of injustice is even more acute as many classes from the preceding terms\, for which the students did pay\, never took place: often working without pay\, teachers frequently go on strike. Alongside this administrative confrontation\, multiple magic practices participate in the effort to ensure good results on the exam: Christian priests hawk supposedly salvific benedictions while shamans offer various magic recipes. Students excluded from the school for financial reasons band together to study in an atmosphere also marked by corruption and power struggles. Ultimately\, all are counting on cheating during the exam in order to obtain their diplomas. This organized cheating on a national scale reflects an environment where corruption is the rule\, a rule known and accepted by all even if officials make a big show of their respect for procedure. As it brings these processes to light\, Examen d’état also offers\, through Joël and his classmates\, a series of portraits of some extraordinarily keen young people\, who are capable of mobilizing a wide range of strategic skills in the attempt to reach their goal.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/mcmillan-screening-examen-detat-national-diploma/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, 24 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190926T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190926T160000
DTSTAMP:20190917T202659Z
CREATED:20190910T224020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190917T202659Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Accessing Unique Film and Video Resources at Harvard Libraries and Harvard Film Archive
DESCRIPTION:Harvard has incredible audiovisual resources in multiple media spread across several entities on campus. In this workshop\, you will learn how to locate\, request\, and view items from Harvard’s various film collections – and about the procedures to pursue inclusion of media in your research or art projects. Amy Sloper\, Collections Archivist at the Harvard Film Archive\, will describe the collections and access instructions for Harvard Film Archive and other special collections on campus. Please note that if there is interest\, we will hold a separate workshop for professors and teaching fellows on how to integrate film clips into courses through the Canvas teaching platform. \nThis workshop is limited to 30. Priority is given to CMP students and FSC fellows. Kindly RSVP.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/workshop-accessing-unique-film-and-video-resources-at-harvard-libraries-and-harvard-film-archive/
LOCATION:B04 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190920T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190920T160000
DTSTAMP:20190912T030958Z
CREATED:20190910T224020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190912T030958Z
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SUMMARY:Carpenter Center Woodshop Orientation
DESCRIPTION:Need to build something for a sculpture\, video installation\, or performance? In this orientation\, you will learn about the tools and equipment available at the woodshop in the Department of Art\, Film\, and Visual Studies. Woodshop coordinator Oliver Strand will explain safe working practices\, introduce the shop’s equipment\, and give you training and hands-on experience with some specific tools. All participants sign a training record and safety contract and upon completion of this orientation will have access to the shop for the semester whenever a shop monitor is present. \nThis workshop is limited to 18. Priority is given to CMP students and FSC fellows. Kindly RSVP.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/carpenter-center-woodshop-orientation/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, 24 Quincy Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190918T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190918T183000
DTSTAMP:20190917T202438Z
CREATED:20190911T193505Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190419T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190419T213000
DTSTAMP:20190115T012740Z
CREATED:20190115T012251Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190115T012740Z
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SUMMARY:Screening with Amar Kanwar
DESCRIPTION:Check back for more information on this screening coming soon. \n  \nAmar 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. \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/screening-with-amar-kanwar/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, 24 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening & Artist Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190418T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190418T200000
DTSTAMP:20190328T210623Z
CREATED:20190115T011828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190328T210623Z
UID:15277-1555610400-1555617600@filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu
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:20190411T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190411T210000
DTSTAMP:20190328T210001Z
CREATED:20190328T205716Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190328T210001Z
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SUMMARY:Between the Human Animal and the Animate Earth
DESCRIPTION:A screening of the new documentary\, Becoming Animal (directed by Peter Mettler and Emma Davie) about the work of cultural ecologist David Abram (author of The Spell of the Sensuous)\, followed by an open conversation with David Abram and Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Director of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab). \n 
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/between-the-human-animal-and-the-animate-earth/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts\, level 0\, 24 Quincy Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening & Artist Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190402T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190402T160000
DTSTAMP:20210108T000423Z
CREATED:20190114T234925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210108T000423Z
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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
LAST-MODIFIED:20210108T001039Z
UID:15269-1550073600-1550077200@filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190207T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190207T220000
DTSTAMP:20210108T001207Z
CREATED:20190114T232751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210108T001207Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Anocha Suwichakornpong
DESCRIPTION:By the Time It Gets Dark (Dao khanong) \nDirected by Anocha Suwichakornpong. With Arak Amornsupasiri\, Apinya Sakuljaroensuk\, Achtara Suwan\nThailand 2016\, DCP\, color\, 105 min. Thai with English subtitles. Free Admission. \n  \nPlease join us for an evening with Film Study Center fellow and VES visiting faculty member Anocha Suwichakornpong. Anocha will be present for a post screening Q&A and reception following the film. Co-sponsored by The Film Study Center\, The Visual and Environmental Studies Department\, and the Thai Studies Program. \n  \n“Suwichakornpong’s new film bravely tackles a subject long taboo for Thai artists and writers: the Thammasat University Massacre of 1976\, in which a still-unconfirmed number of protesting students were brutally murdered by the military. Rather than a head-on confrontation with the horrific incident\, however\, By the Time It Gets Dark takes a more nuanced and digressive path\, interweaving the seemingly disconnected stories of a filmmaker researching the massacre together with those of a young pop star and a melancholy maid who drifts enigmatically throughout the film. What unites these different characters\, Suwichakornpong seems to suggest\, is the still-pulsing trauma of history that has been denied yet not forgotten. In its lyrical interweaving of character narrative and documentary interludes\, and in its pixel-imploding ending\, By the Time It Gets Dark goes further still by suggesting the limits of the dizzying image world that we increasingly inhabit and the ways in which cinema might give a safe place for local histories and personal memories to be kept alive.” – Haden Guest\, Harvard Film Archive \n  \n“A head-spinning tour de force … elliptically political\, frequently perplexing\, yet fluid enough in its possibilities to allow each viewer to divine their own meanings from its quicksilver forms” – Mark Kermode\, The Guardian
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/an-evening-with-anocha-suwichakornpong/
LOCATION:Carpenter Center Theater\, CCVA\, level 0\, 24 Quincy Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening & Artist Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181127T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181127T170000
DTSTAMP:20181001T150335Z
CREATED:20180927T230116Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181001T150335Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Creative Documentary Approaches with Shevaun Mizrahi
DESCRIPTION:See Shevaun’s beautiful film Distant Constellation at the DocYard on November 26 and then join her the next day for a hands-on workshop for director/cinematographers. \n  \nShevaun Mizrahi is a Turkish-American documentary filmmaker. She received a Jury Special Mention Award at the Locarno Film Festival 2017 for her documentary film Distant Constellation among many other awards including the Best Picture Prize at the Jeonju International Film Festival 2018 and the FIPRESCI Critics Prize at the Viennale (Vienna International Film Festival) 2018. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Film in 2015 and is the recipient of a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship. \n  \nThis workshop is limited to 15. Priority give to current Film Study Center fellows and Critical Media Practice students. Kindly RSVP.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/workshop-creative-documentary-approaches-with-shevaun-mizrahi/
LOCATION:FSC\, Harvard Yard\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181108T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181108T160000
DTSTAMP:20181001T150327Z
CREATED:20180927T225801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181001T150327Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Creating a Digital Cinema Package with Stefan Grabowski
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop you will learn how to create a DCP (Digital Cinema Package) of your film for festivals and digital distribution. \n  \nEnrollment limited to 20 with priority given to current Film Study Center fellows and Critical Media Practice students. RSVP required.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/workshop-creating-a-digital-cinema-package-with-stefan-grabowski/
LOCATION:Vanserg\, 29 Francis Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181016T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181016T160000
DTSTAMP:20181010T213010Z
CREATED:20180927T225303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T213010Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Interview Techniques with Julie Mallozzi
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop students will learn the basics of recording video and/or audio interviews including how to prepare questions\, how to set up the camera\, lights\, and microphone\, and how to conduct the interview to get the most powerful and editable answers. \n  \nIn addition to her role as the Film Study Center’s Administrative Director Julie Mallozzi is a documentary filmmaker. Her work explores the ways cultural traditions from around the globe intersect\, hybridize\, and are turned to new social purposes far from their original context. Her films have won awards at festivals around the world and have screened in museums\, universities\, and on public television. Mallozzi has also created over 100 videos and transmedia projects for community organizations. She received her BA from Harvard University and her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. Mallozzi has taught at Harvard University\, Massachusetts College of Art and Design\, Boston University\, and Rhode Island School of Design. \n  \nKindly RSVP as there is a limit of 20 participants.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/workshop-interview-techniques-with-julie-mallozzi/
LOCATION:Vanserg 111\, 29 Francis Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180928T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180928T210000
DTSTAMP:20210108T001328Z
CREATED:20180921T194652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210108T001328Z
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SUMMARY:Screening & Conversation: Ali Cherri
DESCRIPTION:Moving-Image Work + Ali Cherri in Conversation with Lucien Castaing-Taylor  \nWorking 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  \nUn Cercle autour du Soleil\nDirected by Ali Cherri\nNetherlands 2005\, digital video\, color\, 15 min. In English \nIn a cyclical structure from dark to light\, “Un Cercle autour du Soleil” is a reflection on growing up in Beirut during the civil war years\, and adapting to the “post war” life: accepting the body that is in ruin\, and learning to live in the city that is always already in ruin. – Ali Cherri \n  \nPipe Dreams\nDirected by Ali Cherri\nFrance/Lebanon 2011\, digital video\, color\, 7 min. Arabic with English subtitles \nBetween dreamscapes and reality this video is a journey in three chapters\, on the backdrop of the uprising in the Arab world. A Rise\, a Decline\, and a Fall that would create a tabula rasa and a new start. “Sometimes dreams have to hurt before they become reality” – AC \n  \nThe Disquiet\nDirected by Ali Cherri\nFrance/Lebanon 2013\, digital video\, color\, 20 min. Arabic with English subtitles \nEarth-shattering events are relatively par for the course in Lebanon\, with war\, political upheaval and a number of social revolts. While the Lebanese focus on surface-level events that could rock the nation\, few realize that below the ground we walk on\, an actual shattering of the earth is mounting. Lebanon stands on several major fault lines\, which are cracks in the earth’s crust. This film investigates the geological situation in Lebanon\, trying to look for the traces of the imminent disaster. – AC \n  \nThe Digger\nDirected by Ali Cherri\nLebanon/France/UAE 2015\, digital video\, color\, 24 min. Arabic and Pashto with English subtitles \nFor twenty years\, Sultan Zeib Khan has kept watch over a ruined Neolithic necropolis in the Sharjah desert in the United Arab Emirates. Although majestic\, the wide-angle shots have no monumentalising intent: the beauty and extent of the site speak for themselves. What is playing out here is the possibility for one man to become part of a landscape that overwhelms him yet seems to need his help. Seen under the silhouette of a rock about to devour him or as a dwarfed figure spade in hand walking from the back of the frame\, Sultan curiously busies himself from day to day to prevent the ruins… from falling into ruin. Hamlet’s words in the famous gravedigger scene come to mind: “Has this fellow no feeling of his business? He sings at grave-making.” But here the human remains have long since become archaeological artefacts: the highly luminous outside sequences alternate with shots inside a museum where the bones are sorted and laid out for the visitor’s eye. The switching between day and night but also the soundscape of the man’s singing and the sound of his transistor radio suggest that even the greatest solitude can allow itself be inhabited. Above all\, it underlines the paradox of these empty tombs\, where death is compounded by the absence of the relics. – Charlotte Garson \n 
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/screening-conversation-ali-cherri/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, 24 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening & 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
CREATED:20180921T193505Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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:20180419T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180419T190000
DTSTAMP:20180316T171704Z
CREATED:20180313T033955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180316T171704Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Spell Reel with Filmmaker Filipa César in Person
DESCRIPTION:Spell Reel\, 2017\, Germany/Portugal/France/Guinea-Bissau\, Directed by Filipa César. \nIn Portuguese\, Fula\, Guinea-Bissau Creole\, English\, French; English subtitles. 96 min. \nA ghostly moving image of a young man’s face\, shot some fifty years earlier\, floats on the foliage of night-darkened trees in contemporary Guinea-Bissau. This image appears early in Filipa César’s 2017 film Spell Reel. By turns a political documentary\, an archival history\, and a lyrical exploration of the relation between past and present\, the film organizes itself around a trove of film footage taken during Guinea-Bissau’s war of independence from Portugal (1963-1974). Shot by four young students at the request of revolutionary leader Amílcar Cabral\, himself assassinated in 1973\, these deteriorating film reels were nearly lost when sixty percent of them were destroyed during the country’s 1998 civil war. In 2012\, César began working with the two surviving filmmakers\, Flora Gomes and Sana Na N’Hada\, as well as Berlin’s Arsenal-Institute for Film and Video Art\, to digitize the remaining footage. \nThese “spell reels\,” with their images of rural education\, guerilla warfare\, and the construction and celebration of a new country\, hover over Spell Reel\, often literally. Throughout\, black and white fragments play over the film’s current-day scenes\, capturing rhymes between the present and this irretrievable past. In the film’s contemporary scenes\, César and her collaborators create a transnational itinerant cinema\, projecting and narrating the footage for crowds across Europe and Guinea-Bissau. As audiences participate\, speaking back to the film and their fellow spectators\, the “revolutionary films” provide a space for political response—whether in the form of hopeful expressions for Guinea-Bissau’s future\, critical assessments of the state of things\, or lingering colonial attitudes. In other words these film fragments become\, as César calls them\, a “visionary prism”—offering a new lens on a world in crisis. \nCo-Sponsored with the Harvard Art Museums
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/film-screening-spell-reel-with-filmmaker-filipa-cesar-in-person/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, 24 Quincy Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180411T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180411T180000
DTSTAMP:20180410T043932Z
CREATED:20180402T190417Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180410T043932Z
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SUMMARY:The Tale by Jennifer Fox - Filmmaker in Person
DESCRIPTION:Free admission\, but limited seating is available.\nTickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at the Broadway entrance.\nOne ticket per person.\nPlease enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 5:30pm. \n  \nThe Tale (2017\, USA\, DCP\, 114 min)\nJennifer\, a globetrotting journalist and professor\, lives an enviable life with her boyfriend in New York City. That is\, until her mother finds a story Jennifer wrote at age 13 depicting a “special” relationship with two adult coaches. Reading the yellowed pages of “The Tale\,” Jennifer discovers the coded details she composed 40 years earlier are quite unlike her recollection. Deeply shaken yet determined to square her version of events with the truth\, Jennifer sets out to find her two coaches. Returning to the Carolina horse farm where so much transpired\, Jennifer’s gangly yet tenacious seventh-grade self reawakens\, and the loving stories she told herself for decades begin to unravel. \n  \n“Seamlessly toggling between past and present\, writer/director Jennifer Fox forges a fresh and uncompromising cinematic language to penetrate the heightened internal worlds of her character at two pivotal stages. Shocking\, emotionally raw\, and destabilizing\, this investigative thriller punctures the insidious workings of unchecked power and lays bare the mechanisms of memory—refashioned over time by a growing girl in order to not only ​survive\, but to prevail.”\n– Caroline Libresco\, Senior Programmer\, Sundance Film Festival 2018 \n  \n“A landmark advance in the field of cinematic memoir…\n the #MeToo movie could hardly have arrived at a better time”\n– Peter Debruge\, Variety \n  \n“Laura Dern stuns in this unforgettable personal exploration of living with trauma.”\n– Tim Grierson\, Screen International \n  \n“An immense\, brave\, and genuinely earth-shaking self-portrait”\n– David Ehrlich\, IndieWire \n  \n“Thought-provoking and thoroughly compelling…an audacious work that blurs boundaries between fiction and nonfiction”\n– Leslie Felperin\, The Hollywood Reporter \n  \n“An invigorating and bogglingly successful experiment in cinematic form”\n– Richard Lawson\, Vanity Fair
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/the-tale-by-jennifer-fox/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, 24 Quincy Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180411T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180411T160000
DTSTAMP:20210108T001714Z
CREATED:20180223T160623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210108T001714Z
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SUMMARY:FSC-Radcliffe Fellows’ Presentation: Benjamin Naishtat
DESCRIPTION:The Core \nBenjamín Naishtat is a filmmaker from Buenos Aires\, Argentina. His work includes experimental and fictional works\, such as the shorts El Juego (2010) and Historia del Mal (2011) and the features Historia del Miedo (2014) and El Movimiento (2015). His third feature film\, Rojo\, will have its release in early 2018. \nDuring his Radcliffe fellowship\, he is developing a fictional-experimental feature film project adapted from The Seven Madmen\, a 1929 Argentine novel by Roberto Arlt\, in combination with a Jules Verne novel and a violin concerto by the contemporary Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera. The main goal of the research process for this film\, and of the film itself\, is to establish connections between the spiritual mood of the late 1920s that resulted in the rise of fascism in large parts of the western world and the current ongoing streams of borderline politics and religious frenzy. \nNaishtat completed his studies at the Universidad del Cine\, in Buenos Aires\, later holding a two-year residency at Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains\, a French institution that favors transdiciplinary interaction for artists. He has shown his work internationally\, including at the Berlinale\, Festival de Cannes\, Locarno Festival\, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam\, and at such institutions as Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art. He has won awards at the festivals of Jeonju\, Mar del Plata\, San Francisco\, Valdivia\, and Wroclaw\, among others. The Cinema South International Film Festival organized the first retrospective of his work in 2016.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/fsc-radcliffe-fellows-presentation-benjamin-naishtat/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, 24 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180321T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180321T160000
DTSTAMP:20180317T003600Z
CREATED:20180223T160035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180317T003600Z
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SUMMARY:FSC-Radcliffe Fellows’ Presentation: Bouchra Khalili
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public \nTwenty-Two Hours \nDuring her fellowship\, Bouchra Khalili is dedicating herself to Twenty-Two Hours\, a video installation focusing on the politics of the relationship between author and character\, as epitomized in Prisoner of Love (Un Captif Amoreux)\, Jean Genet’s last book\, which linked the Black Panther Party and the Palestinian revolution. \nBouchra Khalili is a Moroccan-French artist. She lives and works in Berlin and Oslo. Working with film\, video\, installation\, photography\, and prints\, Khaliliʼs practice articulates language\, subjectivity\, orality\, and geographical explorations to investigate strategies and discourses of resistance as elaborated\, developed\, and narrated by individuals—often members of political minorities. \nBorn in Casablanca\, Khalili studied film at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and visual arts at the École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy. She is a professor of contemporary art at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and a founding member of La Cinémathèque de Tanger\, an artist-run nonprofit organization based in Tangiers\, Morocco. Khaliliʼs work has been internationally exhibited\, most recently at documenta 14. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art\, in New York (The Mapping Journey Project\, 2016); Palais de Tokyo\, in Paris (Foreign Office\, 2015); and MACBA\, in Barcelona (Garden Conversation\, 2015). Her work has also been shown at the New Museum and at the 55th Venice Biennale. She has been the recipient of an Abraaj Group Art Prize\, a grant from the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm\, the Sam Prize for Contemporary Art\, and a Vera List Center Fellowship at the New School\, among other awards.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/fsc-radcliffe-fellows-presentation-bouchra-khalili/
LOCATION:Knafel Center\, 10 Garden St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Roger Beebe: Films for One to Eight Projectors
DESCRIPTION:Ohio-based filmmaker Roger Beebe will be presenting a program entitled Films for One to Eight Projectors\, featuring multi-projector performances on 16mm\, along with premieres of several new single channel works on video. These works take on a range of strategies from formalist investigations of the materiality of film to essayistic explorations of popular culture and topics ranging from the forbidden pleasures of men crying (“Historia Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes)”) and the secret logic of the book of Genesis (“Beginnings”) to Las Vegas suicides (“Money Changes Everything”) and the real spaces of the virtual economy (“Amazonia”). \nThis program is co-presented with the AgX Film Collective.
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/roger-beebe-films-for-one-to-eight-projectors-filmmaker-in-person/
LOCATION:B04 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
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SUMMARY:Screening: MARIANA with director Chris Gude and programmer Cecilia Barrionuevo
DESCRIPTION:MARIANA\nChris Gude\n2017\, 64 minutes\nColombia\, Spanish with English subtitles\nPresented by Cecilia Barrionuevo and Chris Gude \nIn this experimental road movie\, director Chris Gude (Mambo Cool) follows two smugglers attempting to cross into Colombia from Venezuela. As the men drive across the sun-soaked terrain of the Guajira peninsula\, occasionally stopping off to wander or play pool in the lonely ruins of abandoned buildings\, their journey comes to symbolize a search for an idealized land. Gesturing toward Colombia’s colonial legacy (such as when the pair listen to a Hugo Chávez radio broadcast about Simón Bolívar)\, this beautifully photographed film gives the viewer ample room to ponder questions of space and identity. (Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema\, Film Society of the Lincoln Center: https://www.filmlinc.org/films/mariana/) \nScreening with: \nThe Mouth / La Bouche\nCamilo Restrepo\n2017\, 19 minutes\nFrance\, Susu with English subtitles \nFollowing his 2016 film Cilaos\, Restrepo again experiments with the musical genre in a film that uses radical aesthetics as a means of standing up to social injustice. (Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema\, Film Society of the Lincoln Center) \nCecilia Barrionuevo has a masters in documentary film from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a programmer at the International Film Festival of Mar del Plata (Argentina) since 2010\, programming advisor at Antofadocs international Film Festival (Chile)\, guest programmer Neighboring Scenes 2018 (Lincoln Center)\, and co-editor of the series Las Naves Cine. She collaborated with cultural publications\, took part in round tables and festival juries\, taught and curated film programmes in museums. In 2013\, she was awarded the Leo Dratfield Professional Development Fellowship at the Flaherty Film Seminar. \nCecilia is a co-curator with Carlos Gutiérrez of “Neighnoring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema\,” now being presented at the Film Society of the Lincoln Center. \nChris Gude (1985\, New York) studied geography and anthropology at Middlebury College. His first film\, MAMBO COOL (2013)\, exhibited at FIDMarseille\, Viennale\, Punto de Vista\, Mar del Plata\, Cartagena\, among others. His second film\, MARIANA (2017)\, also premiered at FIDMarseille\, and has premiered at the Lincoln Center in New York as part of “Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema.”
URL:https://filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/screening-mariana-with-director-chris-gude-and-programmer-cecilia-barrionuevo/
LOCATION:Sever Hall 416\, Harvard Yard\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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