Film & Media Culture

In his lecture “Understanding Arab Comics: A View from Cairo” Jonathan Guyer will discuss the power of political cartoons in the current Arab world. Jonathan Guyer is a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs and contributing editor of the Cairo Review of Global Affairs. From 2012 to 2013, he was a Fulbright fellow researching political cartoons in Egypt. He previously served as a program associate for the New America Foundation in Washington, DC, and as assistant editor of Foreign Policy’s Middle East Channel.

In 2012 at the age of 15, against all odds, Claressa Shields from Flint, Michigan, won the first Olympic gold medal in women’s boxing. Come watch “T-Rex,” the award-winning film about Shields and talk with the filmmaker, Sue Jaye Johnson about the making of the film, about Flint, and about the young woman who has proved herself, in and out of the ring, to be the world’s fiercest teenager.

Two teenage friends (Ange Dargent, Théophile Baquet) embark on a road trip across France after building a small house on wheels. “An admittedly small but wonderfully sincere portrait of two adolescent outsiders determined to pave their own way in the world.”––Peter Debruge, Variety.

In French with English subtitles. Sponsored by the Hirschfield International Film Series in association with the Vermont International Film Festival. (Michel Gondry, France, 2015, 105 minutes). Free.

Join us for this Fall’s Sight and Sound 2 student film presentation.

Join us for this year’s student senior tutorial film presentation.

Film and Media Culture Senior Tutorial Screening. A student showcase of capstone creative work.

SCREENAGERS probes into the vulnerable corners of family life, including the director’s own, and depicts messy struggles, over social media, video games, academics and internet addiction. Through surprising insights from authors and brain scientists solutions emerge on how we can empower kids to best navigate the digital world.

Presented by Marisol Rodríguez Rosabel, former director of the Office of Artistic Creation and Director of the Muestra Joven (Young Directors Film Festival) and the development program for emerging filmmakers at ICAIC. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center, and the departments of Spanish and Portuguese, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Film and Media Culture, and Latin American Studies. Spanish with English subtitles Q and A after screening

Gather and listen to the latest creepy episode of Love + Radio. Hosted by alum, producer and creator of Podcast Therapy, Maya Goldberg-Safir.

The Hirschfield International Film Series presents El Club. - Pablo Larraín.  Four priests live together in a secluded house in a small seaside town under the watchful eye of a female caretaker. The fragile stability of their strict routine is disrupted by the arrival of a fifth man, a newly-disgraced companion, who brings with him the secrets they thought were deeply buried. In Spanish with English subtitles. Sponsored by the Hirschfield International Film Series in association with The Vermont International Film Foundation. (Chile, 98 minutes, 2015) Free