Past Events
September 2008 - August 2009
September 11, 2008, 7pm, 212 York
Launch of Avant-Garde Film Colloquium with special screening of Jonas Mekas' As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Caught Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
September 16, 2008, 4pm, Romance Languages Lounge, 82-90 Wall Street, 3rd floor
Christian Delange, Ecole des Hautes, Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Presenting his film, Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes (2007)
September 18-19, 2008
Nelson Pereira dos Santos: screening and panel
September 18, Screening of dos Santos work
7pm: Vidas Secas (1963, 35mm, 104 minutes)
9pm: A Missa do Galo (1982, DVD, 24 minutes) and Azyllo (1970, DVD, 100 minutes)
September 19, 4pm
Panel with Nelson Pereira dos Santos and Randal Johnson (UCLA)
Sponsored by the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, Film Studies Program, and The Cinema at the Whitney.
September 19, 2008, 7pm, Whitney Humanities Center
Beginning of semester-long Ozu retrospective with screening of Yasujiro Ozu's Early Summer (1951) and A Straightforward Boy (1929). Click on link to poster for full schedule for the rest of the retrospective. Poster
Monday, Sept. 22, 2008, 5pm, Whitney Humanities Center, Rm. 208
Yale Lecture Series in Media and Television
Television as Provocation: Rethinking Media History, William Uricchio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, Sept. 26th, 2008, 4:30pm, 212 York
Peruvian filmmaker Felipe Degregori and a screening of his film "Rosas de acero: Para ser travesti hay que tener cojones"
October 13, 2008, 7pm, 212 York
Filmmaker Barbara Hammer
Screening and Q&A
Internationally recognized filmmaker Barbara Hammer has made over eighty films and videos. In the 1970s she pioneered the new lesbian-feminist experimental cinema, and she continues to make films documenting lesbian and gay history and life. She has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Frameline Award for making a significant contribution to lesbian and gay cinema. Tonight she will screen and discuss her influential early work. Co-sponsored by LGBT Studies.
October 16-18, 2008, Whitney Humanities Center
1936: Film Fronts
Program of European films and panel discussions focused on the year 1936. Screenings on Thursday night, all day Friday, all day Saturday. Films and newsreels from USSR, Spain, France, Germany, Italy and the UK. Interdisciplinary panels of Yale faculty and visiting scholars. Web site: http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/europeanstudies
October 21, 2008, 5:30pm, Whitney Humanities Center, Rm. 208
Yale Lecture Series in Media and Television
Production Culture: Critical and Ethnographic Dimensions of Film/TV Labor, John Caldwell, Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles. Caldwell book chapter
October 27, 5pm, Whitney Humanities Center, Rm. 208
Francesco Casetti, Visiting Professor of Humanities at Yale
with a lecture entitled "Where Is Cinema? Media and the Logic of Relocation"
October 30, 2008, 7pm, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Rm. 101
Screening of Election Day (2007) followed by Q&A with filmmaker Katy Chevigny
November 2-3, 2008, Whitney Humanities Center
Visit by Director Claire Denis
November 2, 7pm: Screening of Beau Travai (1999)
November 3
2:30pm: Screening of Pola X (Leos Carax, 1999)
4:30pm: Talk by Claire Denis
6:30pm: Screening of 35 rhums (2008) tentative
November 5, 2008, 8pm, 212 York
Screening of Dalai Lama Renaissance (2007) followed by Q&A with musicians featured on the sound track, Michel Tyabji, Techung, and Roop Verma. A concert is scheduled for Friday, November 7.
November 10, 2008, Monday, 7pm 212 York
Jim Hubbard, Filmmaker and Co-founder of MIX film festival
Screening of early queer experimental work and Q&A
Filmmaker and curator Jim Hubbard’s numerous films have been screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, the London Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, and LGBT film festivals in Tokyo, Hamburg, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and elsewhere. He is the co-founder and president of MIX: The New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival and co-coordinator of the Act Up Oral History Project. Tonight he will curate a program of queer experimental film from the 1980s and 1990s, including his own work. Co-sponsored by LGBT Studies.
November 12, 208, 7pm, Whitney Humanities Center
Screening of Jihad for Love (2007) followed by Q&A with filmmaker Parvez Sharma
November 14, 2008, 6pm, British Art Center Auditorium
Magic Lantern Show with David Francis
November 14 &15, 2008, 2pm, 212 York Street
35mm screening of First Films on the British Fairground followed by comments from Vanessa Toulmin, Director, National Fairground Archive, UK and Charles Musser
November 19, 2008, 7pm, Whitney Humanities Center
Screening of Milk followed by Q&A with Producer Bruce Cohen
Dec. 2, 5:30pm, 2008, Whitney Humanities Center, Rm. 208
Yale Lecture Series in Media and Television
Any platform. Any media. Anywhere: Targeting Contemporary Television's Dispersed Audience, William Boddy, Baruch College poster
December 3, 7pm, 2008 Whitney Humanities Center auditorium
Filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles with a 35mm screening of Story of a Three Day Pass
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December 4-7, 2008, Conference, Whitney Humanities Center
"Ouvrir Bazin/Opening Bazin"
This conference will honor André Bazin, indisputably the cinema’s most influential philosopher-critic, who died November 11, 1958, fifty years ago. This anniversary moment has fueled what has already been a massive resurgence of interest in his ideas over the past decade.
The conference is in two parts; the first half in Paris from November 27-29 and the second half at Yale from December 4-7. The Yale portion will focus on the consequences of his writings in films, theory, and the arts, including the current situation of digital media. Around twenty speakers will deliver 30 minute talks. A few key films, and at least one filmmaker in Bazin’s tradition, will enliven the proceedings. Poster
January 29-February 3, 2009
My Hand Outstretched: Films by Robert Beavers
schedule
Thursday, January 29, Whitney Humanities Center
7-9pm: First evening film screening in the Whitney Humanities Center with post-screening discussion. Films will include Early Monthly Segments (1968-70/2002), The Stoas (1991-97), and The Ground (1993/2001).
Friday, January 30
4pm: Master’s Tea at Saybrook College
7pm: Second evening film screening in the Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium with discussion. Films will include Ruskin (1975/1997) and Pitcher of Colored Light (2007).
4pm: Presentation by Richard Suchenski on Robert Beavers’ work at the Yale University Art Gallery beginning with a screening of Amor (1980).
January 30-31, 2009, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
"The Politics of Super-Heroes--International style:
Renegotiating the Super-Hero in Post 9/11 Cinema."
A Film Studies Graduate Symposium at Yale University
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Keynote address by Scott Bukatman (Stanford University)
Yale's Film Studies Program launches its first Graduate Student conference with a timely topic: the spectacular resurgence of 'super-heroic'
narratives in recent big budget films. These films seem to resonate and be in dialogue with a variety of sociopolitical issues, both in Hollywood, China, and other parts of East Asia and the world. In doing this, they honor traditions from their local cinematic, comic-book, literary, and media cultures, as well as regional and global exchanges of technological and cultural ideas.
February 5, 7pm, Whitney Humanities Center
DAKAR TO PORT LOKO: PERSPECTIVES FROM WEST AFRICA (2009)
WORLD PREMIERE!!! Follwed by Q & A with filmmaker Nathaniel Cogley
www.dakartoportloko.com
February 9, 7pm, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Rm. 101, 63 High Street
Filmmaker Alexis Krasilovsky with a screening of her documentary film, Women Behind the Camera
February 11, 2009
Documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker
4pm: Master's Tea, Branford College Master's House, 80 High Street
7 & 9:30pm: 35mm screening of Dont Look Back (1967) Q&A with filmmaker at 8:45pm (in between the two screenings)
February 12 & 13, 2009, Whitney Humanities Center
February 12
4:30pm: Nathan Dunne talks Tarkovsky
Film scholar and author of a major collection on Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky will speak on "Andrei Tarkovsky and International Terrorism."
7pm: 35mm screening of Tarkovsky's Solaris (1972)
February 13, Rm. 116
10am to noon: Workshop on the cinema of Tarkovsky
February 18, 2009
Dominique Bluher (Harvard University)
4pm: Romance Language Lounge, 82-90 Wall Street
"Joseph Morder's Memoirs of a Tropical Jew (1986): memoirs, journal, autobiography, or autofiction?"
7 & 9:30pm: 212 York Street, Rm. 106
Screening of Memoirs of a Tropical Jew
8:30pm: Q&A with Dominique Bluher
February 19-20, 2009, Whitney Humanities Center
“Postwar Queer Underground Cinema, 1950-1968”
For detailed conference schedule, visit http://www.yale.edu/yrihs/quconf.html
Events are free, but pre-registration is required for this conference and reception.
Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising (1963), Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures (1963), and Andy Warhol’s Chelsea Girls (1966) are widely regarded as some of the most important and influential films of postwar underground cinema. But cinema studies has only recently begun to take seriously the fact that Anger, Smith, and Warhol were gay filmmakers whose films developed a queer aesthetic to explore questions of queer subjectivity and world-making. Moreover, the field has still barely registered the fact that they were not just brilliant auteurs working in isolation but were enmeshed in and influenced by a larger circle of mostly New York-based queer filmmakers, performers, writers, and artists. This conference seeks to map the contours and assess the significance of this wider cultural formation, which we call postwar queer underground cinema, which largely developed in the 1950s and 60s in the ferment of downtown New York, the scene of complex interactions, collaborations, and conflicts between mostly gay or bisexual male filmmakers and critics and mostly heterosexual but resolutely anti-heteronormative female (and some male) filmmakers as well as between white, Puerto Rican, African American, bohemian, and gay cultures, communities, and artists.
Saturday, February 21, 2009, Whitney Humanities Center
Yale Lecture Series in Media and Television
Friday, February 27, Whitney Humanities Center, Rm. 116
Workshop in film, television and media studies with William Boddy
Screening of Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008), Golden Globe winner for best foreign film, followed by discussion with art director, David Polonsky
Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 5:30pm, Whitney Humanities Center, Rm. 208
Yale Lecture Series in Media and Television
What's Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest
Heather Hendershot, City University of New York Graduate Center
Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 5:30pm, Whitney Humanities Center, Rm. 208
Yale Lecture Series in Media and Television
Obamamia! Viral Gone global, and the Where U@? Generation
Anna Everett, University of California, Santa Barbara
Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 4:00 PM, Whitney Humanities Center
“Towards the Temenos: Gregory Markopoulos’ Eniaios.” Film screening and presentation by Richard Suchenski
April 16, 5:30pm, location TBA
Juliane Lorenz, head of the Fassbinder Fundation of Berlln and NYC
title of talk TBA
Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 5:30pm, Whitney Humanities Center, Rm. 208
Yale Lecture Series in Media and Television
Governing by Television: Race and the Liberal Subject in the "Brown Era"
Anna McCarthy, New York University
September 2007 - August 2008
September 20, 2007, Thursday
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 7pm
Sneak Preview of The Kite Runner (Marc Forster)
September 21 and 22, 2007
Visiting Film/videomaker Takahiko Iimura
Sponsored by the Council for East Asian Studies
September 26, 2007, Wednesday
Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street, 7pm
Screening of Unborn in the USA: Inside the War on Abortion (2007) with filmmakers Stephen Fell, Will Thompson, and Suzanne O'Malley.
Pre-screening reception at 6pm
film web site
October 3, 2007, Wednesday
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 7pm
Visiting Filmmaker Ela Troyano: Screening of La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul with post-screening discussion. Sponsored by the Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration and the Film Studies Program
October 11, 2007, Thursday
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 7pm
Special Screening of Women in Love (Ken Russell, 1969) with introduction by and post-screening conversation with writer and producer Larry Kramer.
October 12, 2007, Friday
212 York Street, Rm. 106
French Cinema event
10:30am-noon:
Jean-Michel Frodon, Editor-in-Chief of Cahiers du Cinema.
The heritage and global mission of the world's most influential film journal.
2-3:30pm: Special 35mm screening
3:30-5pm:
Celebrated Director Arnaud Desplechin
French film through the eyes of a filmmaker.
Associated 35mm screening of a Desplechin film
Wed., October 10, 7pm, Whitney Humanities Center
October 19-20, 2007
Whitney Humanities Center
The films of Charles Burnett - with Charles Burnett
Cinema at the Whitney event
For more information, go to www.yale.edu/cinema
October 25, 2007, 4-7pm
212 York Street, Rm. 106
American Film Institute Conservatory Presentation and Screening of student films
October 28, 2007, Sunday
212 York, Room 106, 7pm
Visiting Filmmaker Jose Rodriguez-Soltero and rare screening of his film Lupe (1966, 16mm), along with screening of Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1962, 16mm) and Jerovi (Jose Rodriguez-Soltero, 1965, 16mm). Sponsored by Lesbian and Gay Studies, Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities, and the Film Studies Program
November 4, 2007, Sunday
212 York, Room 106, 7pm
Special screening of experimental films by Danny Williams, along with screening of Screen Test #2 (Warhol, 1965, 16mm) and other Warhol Work. Sponsored by Film Studies Program, the Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities, and Lesbian and Gay Studies
November 5, 2007, Monday
212 York, Room 106, 7pm
Pre-release Special Screening: A Walk into the Sea, a documentary on Andy Warhol’s lover, the filmmaker Danny Williams, and the Factory years. Introduced by director Esther Robinson with Q&A following the screening. Sponsored by the Film Studies Program and Lesbian and Gay Studies
November 7, 2007, Wednesday
Whitney Humanities Center, 7pm
SNEAK PREVIEW in 35mm
Lions for Lambs (Robert Redford, 2007)
www.lionsforlambsmovie.com
November 8, 2007, Thursday
212 York Street, Rm. 106, 7pm
CINEMA/MOVEMENT at Yale
The Interaction between Artistic and Social Praxis in
Japanese Filmmaking
In cooperation with York University and Anthology Film Archives, the Council on East Asian Studies and the Film Studies Program will present a portion of the "Cinema/Movement" film series focusing on the vibrant and controversial interactions between political action and experimental filmmaking in the 1960s and 1970s in Japan. This series of rare films, many of which are hard to see in Japan, let alone North America, was organized by Sharon Hayashi at York University and curated by Hirasawa Go of Meiji Gakuin University. Hirasawa will be in attendance at the Yale screenings and discuss the films shown. Look to later notices for the list of films to be screened.
November 11, 2007, Sunday
Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 7pm
Visiting Filmmaker Ken Jacobs: Screening of Past and Present Work. Sponsored by the Film Studies Program, Theater Studies, the Department of the History of Art, and the Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities.
November 29 - December 1, 2007
"The Human Figure in Painting, Film, and Photograph
A conference at the Whitney Humanities Center
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How and to what ends is the human figure figured in painting, in film, and in the photograph? With the boundary separating Film Studies and Art History becoming increasingly permeable, indeed with filmmaking and art-making so often entangling one another, this symposium will test what may remain the chief stabilizing gyroscope in the theory and practice of representation: the human figure. While some artists have crossed deftly from medium to medium (Warhol), others have remained faithful to their materials (John Ford) letting an adjacent art inspire or complicate the way they work with, around, or through the human figure. Certain films dare to insert an indigestible artwork in their center, while an entire genre of films about art has pictured painters painting figures (from Clouzot's classic Le Mystère Picasso to Marion Cajori's just completed Chuck Close), indirectly theorizing cinema’s properties. Might a vocabulary taken from art history penetrate the aura surrounding master directors like Dreyer, Bresson, and Fassbinder by clarifying their deployment of, or response to, the body and the face? We hold out the photograph as an intermedial space between the flux of films and the eternity of paintings. Caught by photography, the poses of human figures pose questions about time and identity. These questions, at once theoretical and historical, trouble each art and provoke each artist to deal with or make use of the human figure in ingenious ways. Our speakers will address nine specific interarts cases, ranging from oblique influence to outright goading. Five films projected during the symposium will display such issues directly, stirring up further questions.
December 2, 2007, Sunday
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 7pm
Rare Screening of Gregory Markopoulos’ The Illiac Passion (1967, 16mm) Sponsored by the Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities and the Film Studies Program
Thursday, January 17, 2008
7pm: Whitney Humanities Center
Screening of two works by filmmaker Ashish Avikunthak
End Note (2005, 16mm)
Shadows Formless (2007, 35mm)
followed by Q&A with filmmaker
www.avikunthak.com
Monday, January 28, 2008
6:30pm, Linsly Chittenden Hall, Rm. 101, 63 High Street
Nilita Vachani screening her award-winning film
When Mother Comes Home for Christmas (1996)
When Mother Comes Home for Christmas is the product of extraordinary persistence, empathy and intelligence. It opens up the emotional lives of an entire family and reveals in heartbreakingly direct fashion, the true meaning of the phrase, global economy…
Stuart Klawans, The Nation
Sponsors: Film Studies Program, South Asian Studies Council
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
7pm: Whitney Humanities Center
Special screening of Canvas (2006)
Followed by Q&A with director, Joseph Greco and actor, Joe Pantoliano
www.canvasthefilm.com
February 8-9, 2008
1989: Film Culture and the Fall of the Wall
A film festival and conference at the Whitney Humanities Center
Sponsored by the Council on European Studies and the Film Studies Program. More information to follow.
Schedule
February 28, 2008
Cecilia Dougherty, video artist presents and discusses her work
212 York Street, Rm. 106, 4:30pm
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February 28-29, 2008
Whitney Humanities Center
Primo Levi in the Present Tense: New Reflections on His Life and Work before and after Auschwitz
To commemorate the life and the work of Primo Levi, best known for his searing memoir Survival in Auschwitz, Yale is hosting an international conference on February 28-29, 2008. Entitled “Primo Levi in the Present Tense: New Reflections on His Life and Work before and after Auschwitz,” the conference will present the latest research and reflections on an author whose life and writings inspire admiration, meditation and study. Levi is increasingly invoked wherever the need to bear witness arises and the Yale conference seeks to examine his career “in the present tense” in terms of his relevance to contemporary discussions of the Holocaust, of literature, of our recent past and our approaching future. A chemist by trade, Levi became an author only after Auschwitz, and though much of his literary production pivots around his Holocaust experience, he produced a large body of works, including novels, lyric poems, short stories, science fiction, translations, and critical essays.
Featuring scholars from all over the United States, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Australia, the two-day event will also include a screening of the film Primo Levi’s Journey, by Davide Ferrario, at 8 p.m. on Thursday, February 28. The conference itself will begin at 2 p.m. on the 28th with a keynote address by Yale Sterling Professor Giuseppe Mazzotta, and will adjourn on the 29th at 4:30 p.m. after a concluding address by noted scholar of Holocaust testimony and literature, Lawrence Langer. A reception and concert of Jewish music by soprano Lauren Libaw (Yale ’09) and pianist Daniel Schlosberg
(Yale ’10) will bring the conference to a close. Free and open to the public. For further information, contact Ann DeLauro at 203-432-0595.
schedule
April 3, 2008
Whitney Humanities Center, 7pm
Screening of No End in Sight (2007) followed by Q&A with filmmaker Charles Ferguson
Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 7pm, Whitney Humanities Center
Writer Richard Price
Selected episodes of the HBO series "The Wire" followed by Q&A
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 10am, 212 York Street, Rm. 106
Special screening of Spike Lee's "Clockers" (1995) followed by luncheon/discussion with its screenwriter/novelist Richard Price
Video of discussion at http://streaming.yale.edu:8080/ramgen/cmibroadcast/film/price_061108.rm
Thursday, June 12, 2008, 4pm, Whitney Humanities Center
Sneak preview screening of "Choke," a Fox Searchlight September 2008 release. Followed by Q&A with Producer Johnathan Dorfman.
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Saturday, June 14 & Sunday, June 15, 1-6pm, Whitney Humanities Center
Sci-Fi Film Festival and discussion with the experts
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Events Prior to September 2007
Friday, June 22, 2007
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
Tom Perrotta
6pm: Screening of Little Children (Todd Field, 2006)
8pm: Q&A with writer Tom Perrotta
Monday, June 18, 2007
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
3:30pm: Screening of Amistad (Steven Spielberg, 1997)
6pm: Q&A with representative of Amistad America
7pm: Second screening of Amistad
Monday, June 11, 2007
212 York Street, Rm. 106
Lila Downs
3:30pm: Screening of Frida (Julie Taymor, 2002)
5:30pm: Q&A with Lila Downs (tango singer in film)
6:30pm: Second screening of Frida
Saturday, June 9, 2007
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
Spike Lee
1pm: Screening of his documentary When the Levees Broke (2006, 240 min.)
5:30pm: Q&A with Spike Lee
Sunday, April 22, 2007
6pm, Whitney Humanities Center
Visit by filmmaker Kasi Lemmons and screening of her film Talk to Me (2007) Q&A with the filmmaker.
Sunday, April 8, 2007
4pm: Whitney Humanities Center
Cinerama Adventure: Introduced by Director, Producer, Writer David Strohmaier
March 30 to April 1, 2007
“The Panorama: Now”
New Perspectives on the Panorama
Friday, March 30, 2:30–7:30 pm
Saturday, March 31, 9 am–6:30 pm
Keynote Lecture: Friday, March 30, 5:30 pm
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
3pm, 212 York Street, Rm. 106
Visit by writer/director Todd Solondz. Screening of Palindromes (2004) followed by Q&A with the filmmaker at 5pm. Todd is the recipient of the 2007 Film Studies Program Award. Palindromes will also be screened on Monday, March 26, 7 and 9:15pm, also at 212 York Street.
Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007
5pm, Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium,
53 Wall street, New Haven.
Borderline (Kenneth MacPherson, 1930)
Film screening and roundtable discussion of this classic silent film. Featuring Prof. Ron Gregg, Prof Tirza Latimer and Sarah Pettit Fellow Emma Heaney. Reception following the event. Presented by Lesbian and Gay Studies and Film Studies.
Monday, Feb. 26, 2007
4pm: Silliman College Master's Tea: A Conversation with Michaela Davis (fashion, beauty, media expert), Silliman College, 1st floor common room, 100 Tower Parkway. Sponsored by Film Studies, African American Studies, Silliman College, The Poynter Fellowship in Journalism.
Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2007
6:30pm, 212 York Street, Rm. 106
Screening of Forest of Bliss (Robert Gardner, 1986), Introduction of film and Q&A after screening by filmmaker. Sponsored by Film Studies, Anthropology Dept., Harvard Lectureship Fund.
January, 16, 2007, 7pm
Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall St.
Elisabeth Subrin (filmmaker and video artist)
Screening of "The Fancy" (2000, awards at the 2001 VIPER International Festival and the 2001 Black Maria Film and Video Festival); "Shulie" (1997, awarded the 1998 Los Angeles Film Critics Assoc. Award for Best Independent/Experimental Film/Video).
Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2006, 7pm
School of Art , 1156 Chapel Street
Graphic Design Atrium, Rm. 104
A Conversation with Filmmaker and Installation Artist Noam Toran
With a screening of the short films Object for Lonely Men (2001) and Desire Management (2005)
Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006
WU TIANMING and Producer LUO XUEYING
Special Film Workshop with Wu Tianming and Luo Xueying
4:00 PM - Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208, 53 Wall Street
Sponsors: The Council on East Asian Studies and the Film Studies Program
Thursday, Nov. 2, 2006, 4pm
Whitney Humanities Centerter
53 Wall St., Rm. 208
LORNA JOHNSON
Assistant Professor, Communication Studies, The College of New Jersey
With a screening of her films
Strands(1996), a personal documentary that asks questions about identity.
My Wolverine (1998), which was awarded Jury Recognition at the Mill Valley Film Festival and the National Black Program Consortium.
Freedom Road (2004), which profiles women who are participants in a memoir-writing workshop in prison.
LeRon’s War, a work in progress.
Monday, Oct. 23, 2006, 5-6:30pm
Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 61 High St., Rm. 317
Screening of documentary,
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
Introduction and Q&A with the flm's co-writer and co-director Susan Stryker (Ph.D., History, UC Berkeley, and co-editor of the Transgender Studies Reader).
Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2006, 7pm
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
Screening of documentary,
Al Franken: God Spoke
Followed by Q&A with filmmakers and Yale Lecturers, Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker as well as filmmaker and Yale graduate Nick Doob
October 17 to 19, 2006
Japanese Cinema Expert and Film Director, Donald Richie
Tuesday-Thursday, OCTOBER 17-19, 2006
While at Yale, Mr. Richie will give a lecture, conduct two workshops, and present and discuss films.
Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006, 7pm
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
53 Wall Street
Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette
with a 35mm screening of Tarnation (2003), introduced by filmmaker
8:30pm: Q&A and "talking workshop" with filmmaker in Rm. 208
Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006, 7pm
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
53 Wall Street
Screening of documentary, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, followed by Q&A with filmmaker Alex Gibney
Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006, 7pm
Linsly Chittenden Hall, 61 High Street, Rm. 101
Screening of documentary, In Debt We Trust followed by Q&A with filmmaker Danny Schechter.
Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2006, 8:30pm
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
53 Wall Street
Patrick Loughney, Curator, Motion Picture Dept. of George Eastman House with a presentation on digital restoration techniques. Presentation will be followed by a 35mm screening of Why Change Your Wife (Cecil B. DeMille, 1920)
Monday, Sept. 18, 2006, 4pm
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
53 Wall Street
The Annual Reni Celeste Memorial Lecture
Vivian Sobchack with a talk entitled,
"Cutting to the Quick: Techne, Physics, Poesis, and the Attractions of Slow Motion"
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Charles Randolph, Screenwriter
Wrote the screenplays for "The Life of David Gale"
and "The Interpreter."
Thursday, February 2, 2006, 5:30pm
The Reni Celeste Memorial Film Studies Lecture
David Bordwell, author of Film Art, Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin, with a talk entitled,
"Aesthetics of Early CinemaScope"
Linsly Chittenden Hall, 61 High Street, Rm. 101
http://www.davidbordwell.net/
Monday, November 13, 2005
On Set with filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin and French Cinema
Screening: Kings and Queen (2004) 35mm
Workshop: Directing Actors for Film
Forum: A Director's Take on Films and the Cinema
Friday, September 30, 2005
Visit by filmmaker David Lynch
Screening of "Lost Highway"
Whitney Humanties Center, 53 Wall Street
Talk: "Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain"
Battell Chapel, Elm and College Streets.
Sunday and Monday, Sept. 25-26, 2005
Portuguese film scholar, Paulo Filipe Monteiro
All events at Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
Sunday: Sept. 25
7pm: Rm. 208, Talk entitled “Writers on the Screen”
9pm: Auditorium, Screening of Noite Escura (João Canijo, 2004)
Monday: Sept. 26
3:30pm, Auditorium, Screening of Belarmino (Fernando Lopes, 964) DVD
4:45pm: Rm. 208, Talk entitled “Portuguese New Wave Cinema”
Friday, September 23, 2005
Filmmaker, Avi Mograbi
2pm: Screening of How I Learned to Overcome my Fear and Love Arik Sharon followed by Q&A, Linsly Chittenden Hall, 61 High Street, Rm. 101
Friday, April 29, 2005
Filmmaker Ousmane Sembene, founder of African Cinema visits Yale
4pm: Screening of his new film Moolaadé
6pm: Reception, Rm. 208
7pm: Screening of Moolaadé. Filmmaker will introduce film and hold Q&A after the film.
Click to view photographs
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Master's Tea with 2005 Film Studies Program Award recipients, Ondi and David Timoner, Pierson College Master's House, 261 Park
Screening of their film DIG!; Criterion Cinemas, 86 Temple Street (free to members of Yale community)
Monday, April 11, 2005, 7pm
African filmmaker Flora Gomes from Guinea Bissau presents Tree of Blood (Po Di Sangui, 1996) followed by discussion with historian Olivier Barlet. Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall Street. There will also be a 9:30pm screening of the film.
Thursday, March 31, 2005, 7pm
Screening of "Los Angeles Plays Itself" (Thom Anderson, 2003), Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street, Rm. 102
Informal session with filmmaker Friday, April 1, 10:30-noon, Film Study Center, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
Wednesday, March 30, 2005, 7pm
"Tricks of the Trade; or How to Get Into the Film and Television Industry"; Panel discussion followed by Q&A with Filmmakers, Writers and Producer; Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
Saturday, March 26, 2005, 7pm
Screening of films by NYU graduate film students followed by Q&A with filmmakers; Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall Street
November 16, 2004, 7pm
Screening of documentary, Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed. Followed by Q & A with Director, Shola Lynch
Afro-American Cultural Center, 211 Park
Nov. 17, 2004, 7pm
Dan Streible, Assoc. Prof. of Film, University of South Carolina, Director of the Orphaned Film Conference
Dan will present a variety of little known orphaned films from Newsfilm Library in South Carolina, inlcuding scenes of Bagdad in the 1920s, Martin Luther King on Voting, Round the World Trip by Two Girls, and the Hollywood Sign. Whitney Humanties Center, 53 Wall Street
October 19, 2004
Film Director George Butler
4:30pm Master's Tea, Calhoun Master's House
7:00pm Screening of his new documentary,
Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
followed by Q & A
York Square Cinemas, Broadway
April 19, 2004, 6:30pm
Milcho Manchevski, Director. Screening of his film "Dust" (2001) followed by Q & A with the director.
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
January 22, 2004
Tom Gunning, Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, Department of Art History and the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago with a talk entitled Phantasmagoria: The manufacturing of Illusions and Wonder: Towards a Cultural Optics of the Cinematic Apparatus
November 17, 2003
David Rodowick: King's College, London and Harvard
with a lecture entitled "Lessons from Cavell, or what film called thinking".
October 28, 4:30pm,
Henry R. Luce Hall auditorium
34 Hillhouse Avenue
Screening and discussion with Cui Zi'en, Director, Artist, Film Critic, Beijing Film Academy.
October 2, 2003
Tsai Ming-Liang, noted Taiwanese filmmaker
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
3:30pm - Tea and discussion, Rm. 108
4:15pm - Screening of The Hole
7:00pm - Screening of What Time is it There?
9:00pm - Q &A with Tsai Ming Liang
9:30pm - Screening of The Skywalk is Gone
June 24, 2003
Talk by Paul Thomas Anderson, Director of Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and Punch Drunk Love
June 24, 2003
Q & A with Jim Jermanok, Screenwriter, following screening of of Passionada, a romantic comedy directed by Dan Ireland.
April 5-6, 2003
Contemporary Chinese film series
April 3, 2003
Talk by Roger L. Mayer, President and COO of Turner Entertainment Company; screening of the Mayer film, The John Garfield Story, followed by Q & A with Mr. Mayer
February 27, 2003
Talk by Raoul Coutard, Legendary New Wave Cinematographer followed by screening of Hoa Binh (1970), directed by Coutard
February 21-March 1, 2003
Film series: After the War, Before the Wall, German Cinema
1945-60
January 15, 2003
Q & A with Paul Robeson, Jr., Author of The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939, following screenings of Emperor Jones, and My Song Goes Forth, featuring Paul Robeson.
October 8, 2002
From the Magic Lantern to Cinema: A Lantern Show. Presented by David Francis, former head of the National Film Archive (London), and the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division at the Library of Congress (Washington)
April 30, 2002
Talk by Giuliana Bruno, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, on her book, Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film.
April 3, 2002
Screening of Black at Yale (1974), a one-hour documentary about black student life at Yale followed by Q & A with Warrington Hudlin, Director. Mr. Hudlin was the producer of House Party (1990) and Boomerang (1992).
February 5, 2002
Talk by Vanessa Toulmin, Research Director of the National Fairground Archive, University of Sheffield entitled, The Impact of American Showmen on British Popular Culture in the 19th Century
