As You Like It
October 2011
St. Mary’s Hear and Now
December 2011
The Big Picture App?
March-April 2012
Performing Arts - Theater and Dance
Life is short. Art is long.
Each filmmaker in the fifth annual series (fall 2011) — Yun Suh (“City of Borders”), Jenny Cool (“Home Economics”), and Michèle Stephenson (“Faces of Change”) — distributed the film she screened and discussed through the seminal feminist film collective, New Day Films, which marked its 40th anniversary in 2011. Formed in 1971 by a small Find out more »
TFMS’s Fourth Annual Film Series, February 2011, offered a range in forms of alternative animation and collage. Participating filmmakers included cutout animator and collagist Lewis Klahr (California Institute of the Arts), computer animator and video installation artist James Duesing (Carnegie Mellon University), and animator Karen Aqua, whose short films have screened in Croatia, Japan, and Find out more »
TFMS’s Third Annual Film Series, April 2010, focused on environmental film. Internationally acclaimed, award-winning filmmakers Scott Hamilton Kennedy (United States), Yung Chang (China/Canada), and Wolfgang Widerhofer (Austria) screened and discussed a variety of work that explored a range of environmental issues. Topics included environmental displacement, environmental racism, built environments and social activism, and dependence and Find out more »
Bread and Puppet Theater: The Sourdough Philosophy Circus
September 2008
Looking for Tarô Kaja: An Evening of Kyôgen Comedies: Kagyû (The Snail), Chidori (Catching Plovers), Iroha (Learning the Alphabet), and the Healing Drink (an original Kyôgen-style comedy in English, written by student Ian Prince)
October/November 2008
Suburbia
December 2008
Polaroid Stories
April 2009
TFMS’s Second Annual Film Series, February 2009, explored how home movies inflect issues of gender in narrative, experimental, and documentary film. Internationally acclaimed, award-winning filmmakers Michelle Citron, Daniel Reeves, and Jennifer Hardacker were joined by film scholars and archivists Patricia Zimmermann and Pamela Wintle to screen and discuss a variety of work that incorporated home movie Find out more »
TFMS’s First Annual Film Series, February/March 2008, featured films and filmmakers from the exciting vanguard of experimental documentary. Five guest artists–the internationally acclaimed and award-winning Alan Berliner, Laura Kissel, David Ellsworth, Christopher Harris, and Su Friedrich–visited the campus to screen and discuss their films, which explored subjects in ethnography, autobiography, and landscape. Alan Berliner “Nobody’s Find out more »