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Visiting cinematographer and workshop

9/8/2016

 
Visiting cinematographer and filmmaker, professor Matt Herbertz, came to Connecticut College to do an evening-long cinematography workshop with students. Quite the crowd showed up to learn everything from the basics of gels and diffusion to three-dimensional choreography of actors and camera. 
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Spring 2016 Student Film Exhibition

5/13/2016

 
It's the Spring 2016 Student Film Exhibition! Another incredible lineup of films and standing-room-only turnout. Congrats, students!
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Hands on the Freedom Plow talk and book signing

4/12/2016

 
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Please join us as we kick off the Fran and Ray Stark Foundation Distinguished Artist Residency with Judy Richardson's first event today.

She'll be bringing in a former SNCC leader, producers of Eyes on the Prize and co-editor of Hands on the Freedom Plow, today at 4:30 pm in Blaustein 210.

Judy and three of the other contributors to Hands - which tells the stories of more than fifty female civil rights activists - Dottie Zellner, Betty Robinson and Muriel Tillinghast, will be speaking about their experiences in the Movement and will take questions afterwards.

Books will be available for purchase and refreshments will be served.

Distinguished Guest Residency Welcome Reception

4/5/2016

 
This year's Fran and Ray Stark Foundation Distinguished Artist is filmmaker, producer, writer, and activist, Judy Richardson. She will be screening films, giving talks, mentoring students, guest lecturing, and holding open office hours for anyone to meet her and talk about film, race, gender, and the film and tv industry. Her month-long residency is going to be amazing. Please join us in welcoming her at the reception this Tuesday. See you there!
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The Spook Who Sat By The Door

2/3/2016

 
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The Film Studies Department invites you to come to a two-part film event on a revolutionary 1973 film, supressed by the U.S. government for over thirty years: The Spook Who Sat by the Door (dir. Ivan Dixon, based on the book by Sam Greenlee).

On Wednesday, Feb 3 at 4:30-7:00pm, Assistant Professor Liz Reich (Film Studies) will screen The Spook Who Sat by the Door and give a talk on revolutionary black performance drawn from her forthcoming book.

The following week on Feb 10, also at 4:30-7pm, Associate Professor Christine Acham (University of Southern California) will screen her documentary investigating the story of Spook, entitled Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of the Spook Who Sat by the Door. She will run a Q&A following the screening.


Refreshments will be served and both events are being co-sponsored by Africana Studies.


Fall 2015 Student Film Exhibition

12/17/2015

 






It's that time of the semester --- the Student Film Exhibition is here and it is happening NOW! Advanced fiction productions will be integrated with documentary and experimental films. Your mind will be blown.
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Film Studies is now a Department!

11/19/2015

 
It's time to party - the Film Studies PROGRAM is now... THE DEPARTMENT OF FILM STUDIES! Come on out and party. Gourmet food, drinks (for those of age), dancing, laughing, and full-on celebration tonight!
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Tournees Contemporary French Film Festival

10/5/2015

 
The week-long Tournees Contemporary French Film Festival returns this year with an incredible lineup. This year, Film Studies' own Dr. Martin will be introducing and discussing the feminist drama, Girlhood (Bande De Filles) and Professor Morin will be talking about the darkly humorous thriller, In The House (Dans La Maison).
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A pizza party, a lecture, and a gay Freudian thriller

9/25/2015

 


This Friday, we will welcome back Professor Morin from his sabbatical and hear about his success as an independent filmmaker.

He will also be giving a talk on the amazing French gay thriller film Stranger by the Lake (available on Netflix streaming). The talk is called "Looking for Strangers: Grindr Culture, AIDS Anxiety, and the Male Gaze in Stranger by the Lake."

Oh and yes - there will be FREE PIZZA

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Spring 2015 Student Film Exhibition

5/8/2015

 
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The Film Studies program invites you to the Spring 2015 Student Film Exhibition on Friday, May 8 in Olin 014. The reception begins at 5:30pm and the screening begins at 6pm. Please come join us for an evening to watch five diverse, short narrative films created by our student filmmakers! 

Welcome our newest member of our faculty - Professor Liz Reich

4/2/2015

 
Please join Film Studies in welcoming our new  colleague, Professor Elizabeth Reich on Thursday, April 2nd, 2014 for a talk on Afrofuturism in Film.  Professor Reich will start teaching for us in the fall, and she specializes in courses examining representations of race and ethnicity.  She will be teaching a first year seminar on Afrofuturism this fall, but she plans to teach an upper level class on the same topic.  She will screen Wanuri Kahiu's short film Pumzi, with a discussion and then small reception to follow.  
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Fall 2014 Student Film Exhibition

12/11/2014

 
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​The Film Studies program proudly invites you to the Fall 2014 Student Film 
Exhibition.  Come on out this Thursday night to see the powerful, entertaining and thought-provoking cinematic work of students across our campus. 

This Thursday, December 11 at 7:00pm in Olin 014 we will screen the best fiction, documentary and experimental films made this semester.  There will be a reception at 6:30. The event is free and open to the public.

We look forward to seeing you there!
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​Films by:
Hallie Cohen
Samantha Derderian
Katy Fitzsimmons
Stephanie Gorman
Ben Halvorsen
Ellen Heuer
Josefin Karjel
Sean Lee
Katherine Lipman
Andrew Marsh
Edward Paulino
Amanda Pratt
Claraliz Rodriguez
Nico Schultz
Caeli Smith
Will Stoddard
Lauren Young

100 Years Later: The Eyes of WWI

11/15/2014

 
The Departments of German Studies and Film Studies present an Interactive Multi-media Event organized by the students of Film/German 255
 
100 Years Later: The Eyes of WWI
 
With an introduction by Marc Forster, Department of History
 
Monday, November 17, 4:30 pm (Crozier Williams 1941; refreshments will be served)
 
Come experience the effects of World War I on the German self-image and discover why Weimar films still speak to us today.
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Contemporary French Film Festival

11/6/2014

 
On Thursday of this year's week-long Contemporary French Film Festival, Professor Ross Morin will be giving a talk on the queer French thriller film, Stranger By The Lake, followed by q&a discussion. Disclaimer: the film features graphic sexual imagery. It also features beautiful shots of trees and sunsets -- so it kinda balances itself out.
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A pizza party, a lecture, and a horror film

10/9/2014

 
This Thursday, Oct. 9th - Dr. Nina Martin will be giving a talk on the terrifying feature film, "Silent House." 
Come out for pizza, camaraderie, an awesome talk, and a movie that will leave you breathless.
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Spring 2014 Student Film Exhibition

5/9/2014

 



Film Studies proudly invites you to the Spring 2014 Student Film Exhibition. Come out to see some powerful movies and celebrate the collaborative work of our students from disciplines across the campus. 
 
This Friday, May 9th at 7:00pm in Olin 014, we will screen the best comedy, horror, drama and action films made in Film Studies this semester.  There will be a reception at 6:30.
 
We look forward to seeing you there!
 


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Films by:
Trey Chapman
Christopher Chen
Ryanne Davis
Cole Delbyck
Elaine Frost
Madeline Harris
Ellen Heuer
Tom Janick
Amanda Jordan
Bae Yung Kim
James Lafortezza
Katherine Lipman
Marialyse Martiney
Cooper Nefsky
Lily Plotkin 
Amanda Pratt
Emma Radest 
Will Stoddard
Cali Zimmerman
Ben Zonon

Academy Award winners as Distinguished Artists in Residence

2/24/2014

 
​Film Studies welcomes Academy Award-winning filmmakers Sean Fine ('96) and Andrea Nix to campus as the Fran and Ray Stark Foundation's Distinguished Artists. They will kick off their three-week visit with a screening of their most recent films, Life According to Sam and Inocente. 

During their residency they will be offering hands-on workshops, guest lectures, office hours and countless opportunities for you to meet with them and workshop your own creative film projects. 

Tomorrow, Monday February 24, there will be an opening reception in the first floor lobby of the Olin Science Center at 6:00pm, followed by a screening of the two films in Olin 014 at 7:00.  Sean and Andrea will then discuss their work and answer questions from the audience.  


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Sean Fine, Connecticut College class of 1996, and Andrea Nix Fine are Academy Award and Emmy award winning filmmakers who specialize in creating visually powerful and authentic portraits of characters who tell their own story.  Working as a collaborative team, (they direct together and Sean is the cinematographer), their films have been hailed by critics as “unflinching”, “spirit-raising” and “visually ravishing”. One of their latest films, Inocente, a coming-of-age story about a homeless 15-year-old Latina artist, won the 2013 Oscar for Best Short Documentary.

The Fines current documentary, Life According to Sam, debuted at Sundance and aired on HBO in 2013 and was shortlisted for the 2014 Academy Awards for Best Documentary. Embraced on the festival circuit, the film’s honors include the Heartland Film Festival Award, Nantucket Film Festival’s Audience Award and Best Storytelling Award, the Best of the Fest at the AFI film festival, and the Mountainfilm Festival’s Indomitable Spirit Award. The Fines’ film War/Dance won Emmys for Best Documentary and Best Cinematography in 2009, was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and won the Best Director award at Sundance in 2007. 

Fall 2013 Student Film Exhibition - two nights!

12/11/2013

 
This week it's two nights of movies at the Fall 2013 Student Film Exhibition. Come out and see some powerful movies and support the collaborative work from a wide range of disciplines. This semester, the two night exhibition features films spanning many forms and genres - from comedy, to drama, to horror; in fiction, documentary and experimental.  Each night is an entirely different program. 

Wednesday Dec 11 at 7:00pm in Olin 014 will feature the fiction, documentary and experimental films of the Advanced Production Seminar. There will be an opening reception at 6:30.

Thursday Dec 12 will feature the nonfiction films of the Documentary Theory and Production class. 

We look forward to seeing you there!


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Films by:
Hafez Alsaidi 
Bailey Bennett 
Trey Chapman
Christopher Chen
Kyle Clark
Jesse Edwards 
Kelly Franklin
Elaine Frost 
TJ Janick
Amanda Kloth
James Lafortezza 
Linnea Langkammer 


Alvin Li
Kyle Manzione
Marialyse Martiney 
Matteo Mobilio
Juan Pablo Pacheco 
Lily Plotkin
Kurt Reinmund 
Nico Schultz
Benjamin Todd 
Daniel White 
Ben Zonon ​​

An Evening with Greg Sestero

12/5/2013

 
YES, THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING!

This Thursday, December 5 at 7:00pm in Olin 014, Greg Sestero, star of cult film THE ROOM, will be on campus to discuss his hilarious and touching new book, The Disaster Artist:  My Life Inside The Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made.  He will be doing a reading from the book, an interview with Ross Morin, Assistant Professor of Film Studies, and a screening of a brand new behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of The Room. 
 
The event will be held in Olin 014 with a reception that begins at 6:30.  Attendance is free and open to the public, but seating is limited, so arrive early. 
 
http://www.thedisasterartistbook.com
http://www.theroommovie.com


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Escape from Tomorrow Screening

10/18/2013

 
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​Film Studies is bringing the controversial thriller, ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW, to the College on Friday, October 18th at 6:30 in Olin 014. The film will be followed by a q&a with alum Jesse Kahn ('12) who works for the distributor of the film. Come on out and see this freaky Disney parody mind trip!

Spring 2013 Student Film Exhibition

5/9/2013

 


​This semester Student Film Exhibition is extending over TWO NIGHTS! Tonight in Blaustein 210 there's a 6:30 reception followed by the screening at 7:00 of fiction films made in the intermediate production course. Tomorrow night at 7:00pm in Olin 014 is a selection of mind-blowing experimental films and one excellent documentary.

Come on out to support Film Studies and to see what Connecticut College filmmaking is all about.
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The Films of Andy Warhol

4/11/2013

 
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A one-time only event! As part of the Lyman Allyn Museum's Pop Art​ Exhibit...

Professor Ross Morin will be delivering a lecture on the history, philosophy, artistry, and culture revolving around the FILMS of Andy Warhol. 

Professor Morin will offer commentary as he tours the audience through some of Warhol's most fascinating and entrancing film work like Eat, Kiss, Empire, Vinyl, Chelsea Girls and many more.

The event will take place at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum on south campus.
Free and open to the public (viewer discretion is advised)


2013 Contemporary French Film Festival

4/1/2013

 
This week - the Contemporary French Film Festival returns! See flyer below for details:
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An Afternoon with Barbara Hammer

3/4/2013

 
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We are honored to have experimental filmmaker and visual artist, Barbara Hammer visiting us this week as part of the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology New Media Colloquia Series. On Monday, March 4, she'll be screening some of her experimental work and discussing the politics of queer experimental cinema. She'll also be visiting our Documentary course for one-on-one interaction with our students.

Hammer was honored with major retrospectives at The Tate Modern, London and Jeu de Paume, Paris. MOMA presented a retrospective of 44 different films in 2011. Hammer's work reveals and celebrates marginalized peoples whose stories have not been told. Her cinema is multi-leveled and engages an audience viscerally and intellectually with the goal of activating them to make social change. Her trilogy of documentary film essays on lesbian and gay history has received numerous awards: Nitrate Kisses (1992), Tender Fictions (1995), History Lessons, (2000).  Recent films, A Horse Is Not A Metaphor (2009), Generations (2010) and Maya Deren’s Sink (2011) were awarded Teddy Awards for Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festivals. For more information: www.barbarahammer.com

Fall 2012 Student Film Exhibition

12/13/2012

 
The film studies program is proud to present the Fall 2012 end of
semester student film exhibition, highlighting the best filmmaking
work of the semester by:  Daniel White, Kyle Manzione, Jesse Edwards,
Kurt Reinmund, Linnea Langkammer, Elaine Frost, Gautam Sinha, Ashton
Evans, Kyle Clark, Patrick Myers, Jerell Mays, Quinton Weston, Lauren
Vunderink, George Scarles, Olivia Wilcox, Amanda Kloth, Lucy Wallace,
Nico Schultz, Rudy Wilson, Stephanie Gorman, Cody Stephenson, Shannon Keating, and Kyle Ford.

The program includes works of fiction, experimental, and documentary
produced in our filmmaking courses.

The event on this Thursday, Dec 13 kicks off with a reception outside
of Olin 014 at 6:30 and the screening will begin at 7:00pm.
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