This presentation reflects on questions of representability, narrative, and documentary ethics with regards to the history of the Holocaust film. Specifically, it proposes a number of videographic methods with which we might approach historical atrocities in and through audiovisual images and archives.
Axinn Center 232
VALENTINA is a hybrid film — part narrative-comedy and part documentary – pressed against the backdrop of the busiest border crossing in the United States. Valentina is a young woman caught between small debts and daily pressures in life in a border town.
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
I have been intimate with transportation my entire life; stepping into spaces where every sound, every person, every piece of metal becomes a part of my experience. The purpose of this project is to take inspiration from films I studied during the fall and create a multimedia installation about transportation, intimacy, film, and connection.
Axinn Center
Four middle school boys in a Texas border town have developed an unusual obsession: Joseph Stalin. When their teacher tells them about the Texas State History Fair, they write a play about the Soviet dictator - and his efforts to destroy all who opposed him. As the boys write and rehearse their play about Stalin, they are forced to confront their own relationship with power and control.
Axinn Center 232
A public screening of a film as part of the monthly Hirschfield International Film Series.
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
A public screening of a film as part of the monthly Hirschfield International Film Series.
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
In this 2025 Tunisian film directed by Kaouther Ben Hania, Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under IDF fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her.
Arrive early at 6:30pm for free pizza, popcorn, and snacks!
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
In this 2025 Ukrainian documentary directed by Kateryna Gornostai, it has been three years since Russia’s invasion. Despite the war, school life continues in Ukraine, with students and teachers striving to continue learning even under constant threat.
Arrive early at 6:30pm for free pizza, popcorn, and snacks!
“A profound meditation on the resilience of the human spirit within a fractured reality…A haunting, luminous record of a generation being forged in the dark.” - Gazettely
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
7 films about love, fear and growing up
A screening of senior projects produced by Film and Media Culture majors. Expect a variety of media modes and styles. A Film and Media Culture Department event. Free.
This event is expected to reach capacity. Arrive early for seating.
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Come at 6:30pm for free pizza, popcorn, and snacks!
“No Other Choice”
directed by Park Chan-wook, 2025
After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.
“A masterful work of cinema which might well be Chan-wook’s masterpiece.” - Time Out
“A stunningly energetic and endlessly creative film that delights the mind and the eyes.” - Next Best Picture
“Bleak, brilliant, and mordantly hilarious.” - Indiewire
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
