Where does documentary end and fiction begin? For the fall 2014 film series, three documentarians – Joshua Oppenheimer, Lynne Sachs, and Terence Nance – presented work that blurred the boundaries between documentation and enactment in an emerging form of documentary practice known as “hybrid documentary.” “The notion of cinema ‘blurring the boundaries’,” British cineaste Luke Find out more »
TFMS London Study Tour 2015
Take in the sights and sounds of the TFMS London Study Tour! In March 2015, film/media studies student and tour participant Dylan Cope (’15) shot this short film of his London experiences on his iPhone 6. Enjoy the tour! Visit the London Study Tour site
2014 – 2015 Main Stage Season
Much Ado About Nothing
October-November 2014
Exquisite Corpse
February-March 2015
Slasher, a horrifying comedy
April 2015
“I am the Wind”
Stellar notices for alum Paul Takacs ’04 for his direction of Jon Fosse’s “I Am the Wind” at 59E59 Theaters, NYC Read the New York Times Review
Tom Vander Well – “10 Ways Being a Theatre Major Prepared Me for Success”
Tom Vander Well, partner and Vice-President of c wenger group, a consulting firm specializing in customer satisfaction research and call quality assessment, tells about the benefits of being theatre major. Read Article
Spring 2015 Department Awards
TFMS Department Awards Spring 2014 Award Recipients
2013-2014 Main Stage Season
The Container
October-November 2013
Encounters: A Performance of Spoken Word, Dance, and Music
February-March 2014
Shakespeare in Hollywood
April 2014
Seventh Annual TFMS Film Series: Toil and Trouble: The Reel History of Working Women
Where do we find the history of women’s work? Canadian documentary filmmakers Caroline Martel (“The Phantom of the Operator,” 2004) and Maya Gallus (”Dish: Women, Waitressing, & the Art of Service,” 2010) and Academy Award-nominated U.S. filmmaker Connie Field (“The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter,” 1981) presented work that addressed the elusiveness of Find out more »
Sixth Annual TFMS Film Series: Ethnography & Alterity
eth·nog·ra·phy \eth-nog-ruh-fee, ɛθˈnɒgrəfi \ noun: a branch of anthropology dealing with the scientific description of individual cultures. al·ter·i·ty \ȯl-ˈter-ə-tē, -ˈte-rə-\ noun: otherness; specifically: the quality or state of being radically alien to the conscious self or a particular cultural orientation. TFMS’s Sixth Annual Film Series, fall 2012, focused the work of ethnographic filmmakers whose subjects Find out more »
2012-2013 Main Stage Season
Laughing at Life: A Performance of Kyogen Plays
November 2012
On the Move! Dance for the 21st Century
February-March 2013
Working (A Musical)
April 2013