Film & Media Culture

Zhang Mengqi graduated from the Dance Academy of China Minorities University in 2008. “Self-Portrait: Dreaming at 47 KM” (2013, 77 min, Chinese with English subtitles) was her second film for the Memory Project. 47 KM is the name of the village where Zhang’s grandfather lives. Zhang has said, “In the summer and winter of 2010 …

Wu Wenguang (b. 1956) is a leading figure in the Chinese New Documentary Film Movement. He has made ten films, including the seminal “Bumming in Beijing” (1991). In 2005 Wu co-founded the Caochangdi Workstation Art Center in Beijing, where he curated the Village Documentary Project (2005) and the on-going Memory Project (2010), which organizes amateur filmmakers to record memories of China’s Great Famine (1958-1961) and family and local histories. From 7:00 to 8:00 PM Wu will talk in English about the Memory Project and take questions.

Graduate reception for Film and Media Culture’s 2014 majors. Near entrance on Route 30.

Graduate reception for Film and Media Culture’s 2014 majors. Near entrance on Route 30.

The Film and Media Culture Department presents a screening of the J-term Collaborative Video Projects.

Join us and your classmates screening films created in FMMC’s 2017 Collaborative Video Production class.

FMMC Assistant Professor David Miranda Hardy presents episode one of his recently released TV series, Bala Loca (Stray Bullet). The show finished airing in September in CHV, a Turner-owned Chilean network, to critical aclaim. Bala Loca centers on Mauro Murillo, a 50-year ¬old journalist with a past as an investigative reporter during the Chilean dictatorship. In the transition to democracy Murillo grew attracted to the glamour of entertainment television and found substantial fame and economic success.

Year one for Lucy, Jiovanni and director Alexander at the Teddy McArdle Free School in Little Falls, New Jersey, where classes are voluntary and rules created by democratic vote. Wilder is there from the beginning, observing an indelible cast of outspoken young personalities as they form relationships, explore their surroundings and intensely debate rule violations, until it all comes to a head.

Paul Julian Smith, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, will continue a line of inquiry developed in his recent book Mexican Screen Fiction by discussing the intersection of popular cinema and “quality” television in contemporary Mexico.

Roman Kent, Chairman of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and President of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, will give a public lecture on his life and work in the week leading up to Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.