Explore the drama of social activism in New York City from the 17th century right up to the present. In a town renowned for its in-your-face persona, citizens have banded together on issues as diverse as civil rights, wages, sexual orientation, and religious freedom. Using artifacts,
RESURRECTION A film by Eugenio Polgovsky (Resurrección, Mexico, 2016, 94 min. In Spanish with English subtitles) U.S. Premiere! Co-presented with the Flaherty Seminar and Proyector NYC The final film by the late Mexican director Eugenio Polgovsky—one of the finest documentary filmmakers of his generation—is a poignant portrait of a family’s
Come Play with our VHS Archive Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 6:30 PM | Rooms 9206 & 9207 Join the VHS Archives working group, who will be presenting select VHS video clips that depict the group’s interests in video, queer (of color) feminist bodies and sexuality,
On May 3 at 6.30pm, we will be screening Disaster Capitalism, a powerful documentary on a six-year investigation by a best-selling journalist and author, Antony Lowenstein, into how aid dollars are spent. The film tracks the ramifications of disaster capitalism in Afghanistan, Haiti, and Papua New Guinea.
Please join us for a screening of the film TURUP (checkmate), a collectively directed feature-length fiction film that deals with gender, caste and religious fundamentalism in India. The film has shown at many festivals in India and abroad and been critically acclaimed. One of the directors,
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On May 8th at Symphony Space, producers, writers, directors and actors Mark and Jay Duplass will be appearing in support of their new memoir, Like Brothers, It should be a great evening that speaks directly to the anyone in the creative world, especially young filmmakers. Michael Ian Black will moderate. You can read
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The 4th Annual CURATORIAL SLAM! April 6, 2018, 4-7pm Dorothy Hirshon Suite 55 W 13th Street, Rm I-205 New York NY 10011 What Is Curatorial Work Today? Parsons’ Curatorial Design Research Lab (CDRL) is a community of practice comprised of faculty, staff and students from across The
Due to building closure, the time and location of today’s DocTalk have changed. TIME CHANGE: 1:30PM LOCATION CHANGE: 66 West 12th St., Room A 407 ARGUING THE WORLD Directed by Joseph Dorman 1997, 110 min. Screening and Q & A with film editor JONATHAN OPPENHEIM The life
Designing for mixed reality is a completely new experience for everyone involved, and takes some experimentation to get right. You won’t nail your first mixed reality project by relying solely on your previous mobile or web design expertise as a guide. Mixed reality requires a
Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs May 3–October 2018 The exhibition will feature more than 120 photographs by Stanley Kubrick from the Museum’s Look magazine archive, an unparalleled collection from his five years as a staff photographer. For any fan of Kubrick’s films, these images prefigure the cinematic
February 26 – March 2, 2018: The New School will disrupt regular curriculum across the University in order to learn about climate change and its implications, particularly the unequal and devastating impacts on the most vulnerable and least responsible communities around the globe. This disruption is
Doc Studies presents Friday, February 16 at 3 PM 80 Fifth Avenue, room 529 IN THE INTENSE NOW Directed by João Moreira Salles 2017, 127 min. Screening and Q&A with filmmaker JOÃO MOREIRA SALLES This “spontaneous” Doc Talk comes from a coincidental encounter of
Doc Fortnight 2018: MoMA’sInternational Festival ofNonfiction Film and Media February 15–26, 2018 The Museum of Modern Art Doc Fortnight, MoMA’s annual international festival of nonfiction film, returns for its 17th year with 12 days of innovative approaches to documentary filmmaking. Featuring a diverse assortment of features
Filmmakers: Find below the deadline waiver code to enter the prestigious International Movie Awards in FilmFreeway. This is your last chance. International Movie Awards vision is to support and create platforms for filmmakers, movie stars, and talents to compete in their respective field. It also
This week Students of Color Weekly is hosting a meet-up discussing the themes and issues brought up in Beyonce’s “Formation” as this Tuesday marks its second anniversary! Come through for light refreshments, good company and great conversation about the ways Black art and artists create
THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL: WRITING ABOUT MUSLIM WOMEN with Humera Afridi, Roja Heydarpour, Raad Rahman, Sarah Khan, Sumaya Awad & Noel Pangilinan Join the Asian American Writers’ Workshop for a special reading with the Open City fellows. Open City documents the pulse of metropolitan Asian America as it’s
Samaritans Suicide Prevention Center in association with The NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute invite you to join noted local and national media, communications and mental health experts for: Helping or Hurting? The Media’s Impact in Reporting Mental Health. Friday, February 23, 2018 2:30 –
Monday, January 29, 7:15pm Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street), New York City (212) 505-5181 / www.anthologyfilmarchives.org Presented as part of If You Can Screen It There: Premiering Contemporary Latin American Cinema co-presented by Anthology Film Archives and Cinema Tropical. Programmed by Matías Piñeiro and Carlos A. Gutiérrez.
Get your tickets and support your peers at The Pit. Get your tickets for the Thursday Jan 25th show here
Katra Film Series proudly returns to the iconic Alamo Drafthouse Theater in Downtown Brooklyn for its 6th Annual Grand Finale on Tuesday, February 6, 2018. Featuring works fresh from a festival run at Sundance, Tribeca, Palm Springs and Cannes Film Festival and dealing with such wide-ranging
Derrick Adams: Sanctuary opens January 25! Don’t miss this much-anticipated solo exhibition, which consists of a new body of work by Adams inspired by The Negro Motorist Green Book (1936-66), an annual guidebook that helped black road-trippers avoid the dangers, injustices, and racial violence of segregation. The exhibition
In response to the untimely suspension of all Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature programs at Stony Brook University, the final graduate conference from Stony Brook University will be an interdisciplinary event in partnership with Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) at The New School for Social Research with the aim to confront
Don’t miss AMPL!FY in the Project Space before it closes on January 7! This exhibition—a partnership between MAD, Make Art with Purpose (MAP), Worldstudio, the New York City Department of Transportation’s Art Program, and Harlem Stage—presents thought-provoking posters about current social justice issues is the product of collaboration between nonprofits and
Art, Media and Conflict: Embodied Borders Students will present short excerpts from their projects, followed by a Q&A and conversation. This is an opportunity to provide feedback on student work tackling embodied borders in the city through art, media and design. You can come to