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Please join the FMMC department for the fall student screening: Thursday, December 4, 7:30 pm, in Dana Auditorium. We’ll be featuring work from Sight & Sound II and Animation Production. We’ll post titles, descriptions, and links to online videos soon.
In the latest issue of Middlebury’s career services newsletter, there’s a profile of Ed Bogart ‘02, who has worked in television production since graduation. Some good advice for climbed the post-production ladder!
Any students interested in doing an intership this summer should check out the International Radio & Television Society fellowship program. It offers funded internships in a range of radio & TV companies in New York City. The application deadline is December 1, so you need to move quickly. Good luck!
Two presentation on campus this Monday may be of interest for FMMC students:
The Long Memory: An (Incomplete) History of Grassroots Media in Quebec
by Anna Leventhal, Independent Scholar and Writer
4:30 p.m., Monday, November 24, 2008
Robert A. Jones ‘59 House conference room
and a screening/director Q&A:
An East German Director in Latin America : The Ascent of the Chimborazo (1989)
by Rainer Simon, Filmmaker
7:00 p.m., Monday, November 24, 2008
Twilight Hall auditorium
Ascent of the Chimborazo (96 mins., German with English subtitles):
In 1802, the young Alexander von Humboldt led a scientific expedition to the Chimborazo in Ecuador, thought to be the highest mountain in the world and never before climbed. At great risk to his own life, as well as those of his companions - the French doctor and botanist, Aimé Bonpland, and the local créole aristocrat, Carlos Montúfar - Humboldt carefully measures and documents flora, fauna, soil, rocks, water, and the air itself. They survive snow, cold, and the thin mountain air and explore regions that no European had seen before. But it is his encounters with the indigenous people of Ecuador that deeply fascinate him. He explores their culture and language and comes to see German society in a new light. Partly filmed on location in Ecuador.
Director, documentarian and writer Rainer Simon worked for the East German DEFA Film Studio from 1965 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. He made his directing debut in 1968 with a children’s film How to Marry a King. His film The Woman and the Stranger won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1984. Much of his recent work focuses on the life and culture of the indigenous people of Ecuador. Simon will discuss his film after the screening.
Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, the Department of German, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Department of Film and Media Culture.
Any budding filmmakers with 24-hours to spare should check out Apple’s Insomnia Film Festival - teams of 5 students have 24 hours (starting on November 15) to create a 3-minute video meeting particular specs, with the winners getting some nice prizes. This seems like a perfect challenge for Midd students!
I hope you can join us in welcoming Amy Bucher ‘87 to campus on Monday & Tuesday. On Monday, November 10 at 7:30 pm in Dana Auditorium, she’ll be presenting her film, A Walk to Beautiful, an award-winning look at women in Ethiopia who struggle with the social and physical impacts of childbirth injuries. On Tuesday, November 11 at 12:15 in Robert A. Jones House, she will be leading a “career conversation” on her path from Middlebury to a career as a documentary filmmaker.
You can learn more about Amy and her films on her company’s website, Engel Entertainment.
Rescuers During the Holocaust: Their Challenge to Citizens Today
by Pierre Sauvage, Documentary Filmmaker
7:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Dana Auditorium
Pierre Sauvage is a child survivor of the Holocaust and an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. He is the president of the Chambon Foundation, which he founded in 1982. His 1989 documentary Weapons of the Spirit, explored the French Village of Le Chambon during the Nazi occupation, where 5,000 Jews were sheltered by 5,000 Christians. Sauvage and his parents were among the rescued. The Chambon Foundation was the first nonprofit educational foundation committed to communicating the necessary and challenging lessons of hope intertwined with the Holocaust’s unavoidable lessons of despair.
He is currently working on a film about Varian Fry, an American teacher and journalist who traveled to France in August 1940 on behalf of the Emergency Rescue Committee with the assignment of bringing some 200 well-known intellectuals in imminent danger of arrest (including Marc Chagall, Hannah Arendt, and Max Ernst) to safety in the United States.
Sponsored by the Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life, the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, the Holocaust Remembrance Film Fund of the Film and Media Culture Department, Middlebury College Hillel, the Religious Life Council, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, and the Department of Religion
Assistive listening devices will be available.
Check out this video, made by some FMMC alums in NYC:
Over the next few days, FMMC will be joining in the dedication of our new home and attending events with a number of scholars highlighting the various disciplines housed in Axinn. The full schedule is online, but here are a few specific events that might interest FMMC students:
7:30 p.m.
Faculty Panel: “Sites of Memory”
Moderator: Jason Mittell; panelists: Rebecca Bennette, Dan Brayton, Rachael Joo, and Chris Keathley
Location: Axinn 229
A discussion about the relationship between memory and place in literature, art, and culture. This topic is inspired by the transformation of our old library—which was the College’s centennial building in 1900—into a center for literary and cultural studies.
7:30 p.m.
Lecture by Marsha Kinder, of USC’s Labyrinth Project
“Dramatizing the Archive: Contested Sites of Memory and Erasure”
Location: Axinn 232
The Labyrinth Project is an art collective and research initiative on interactive cinema and database narrative at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center for Communication. Under the direction of cultural theorist Marsha Kinder, this initiative works at the pressure point between theory and practice. Kinder produces interactive narratives and installations in collaboration with visual artists and writers known for their experimentation with nonlinear forms.
9:30 a.m.
Faculty Panel: “Looking Backwards: Milestones in the Field”
Moderator: Jay Parini; panelists: Leger Grindon, Brett Millier, Paul Monod, and Michael Newbury
Location: Axinn 229
The “greatest hits” in their respective scholarly fields.
11 a.m.
Poetry reading by Donald E. Axinn ‘51, Litt.D. ‘89
Location: Axinn Abernethy RoomNoon
Reception and Dedication
Location: Axinn Winter Garden
1:30 & 3 p.m.
Tour of building with discussion of building history by Professor Glenn Andres
2 p.m.
Screening of student films begins on continuous loop, until evening
Location: Axinn 232
8 p.m.
Reception for “Frostiana” and “Sound Investment”
Location: Axinn Winter Garden
8 p.m.
College Choir performs selections from “Frostiana”
Location: Abernethy Room
8:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Performance by Sound Investment
Location: Reading Room
10 p.m. - 1 a.m.
Black and White Ball
Bands: Project DCQ and campus band, Yuzimi
Axinn Lawn
Just a reminder to current students that proposals for independent projects are due Friday, 10/10. Be sure to talk with advisors early this week to get everything set to go!
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