Film & Media Culture

In the urban environment of Kinshasa, amid social and political chaos, an eclectic and bubbling street art scene is emerging. (1 hour 34 minutes.)

Sponsored by the Hirschfield Film Endowment.

A screening of student work from the Winter Term class FMMC 1033 Adventure Filmmaking.

Making video essays can often feel as much of a mysterious process as a scholarly or critical one. Weird things can often happen in the process of editing together sequences from films, television and audiovisual media; curious coincidences, felicitous discoveries, and striking disclosures can often happen because of the technical affordances of the editing platforms we use, or because of the the formal or aesthetic devices, dispositifs or audiovisual interfaces we construct.

Filmmaker Marilyn Solaya will travel all the way from Havana, Cuba to present her documentary In the Wrong Body (2010, 55 mins, Spanish with English subtitles). The film tells the story of Mavi Susel, who underwent the first gender reassignment operation in Cuba in 1988. In the Wrong Body explores such timely issues as the meaning of femininity in the macho and patriarchal society in Cuba where many stereotypes and prejudices still exist. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow screening.

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.

A new sketch comedy series created by Middlebury College students and funded by the Innovation Hub.

Co-sponsored by the Innovation Hub.

A new sketch comedy series created by Middlebury College students and funded by the Innovation Hub.

Co-sponsored by the Innovation Hub.

Jennifer Alpert (Lecturer, Committee on Degrees in History & Literature at Harvard University)  is a film scholar interested in portrayals of marginalized groups in the popular cinemas of the Americas as it pertains to race, gender identity, sexuality, class, and political ideology among others, and with a focus on human rights in Latin America.

Prepare yourself for the Dia de los Muertos celebration with an immersion into a classic b/w film of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, “Macario” (1960) a supernatural drama set on the eve of el Día de los Muertos.

Virginia Thomas’s talk, “Envisioning Reproductive Justice: The World-Building Power of Queer Feminist Aesthetics”
1:30-2:45 pm
Tuesday, Sept. 27, Axinn Center, Room 229