This new film tracks the fate of an iconic tobacco auction house in Durham and explores the tension between the drive for progress and the character of the city. A Q&A with director Carol Thomson and editor Jim Haverkamp will follow the screening.
Join the FHI Social Practice Lab for a presentation by choreographer and curator Rashida Bumbray.
The first in a series of four programs curated by Kim Knowles (who will be in attendance) that explores artists' material desire for photochemical film in a digitally-dominated world. Manifestations of material desire in the working methods of contemporary filmmakers will be considered on their own and contextualized by their historical parallels.
In Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard fuses a hardboiled detective story with science fiction. “Both derivative and prophetic, this New Wave dystopian fable both looks back at the history of cinema and forward to its future" (James Verniere, Boston Globe). Introduced by AMI faculty Alex Cunningham & Hank Okazaki.
A free screening of six experimental short films from the 55th Ann Arbor Film Festival—a premiere forum for independent filmmakers and artists—followed by a panel discussion featuring AMI faculty and students.
Join a discussion with the creators of the Museum of Modern Art’s first Massive Open Online Course, Seeing Through Photographs, which has enrolled nearly 200,000 people from 185 countries since it launched Feb 2016.
Four evenings of film by Nathaniel Dorsky concludes with the world premiere of "Garden of Light," photographed at the San Francisco Arboretum in 2017.
Four evenings of film by Nathaniel Dorsky, whose silent works "blend a beauteous celebration of the sensual world with a deep sense of introspection and solitude."—San Francisco Cinematheque.
Four evenings of film by Nathaniel Dorsky, whose silent works "blend a beauteous celebration of the sensual world with a deep sense of introspection and solitude."—San Francisco Cinematheque.
Four evenings of film by Nathaniel Dorsky, whose silent works "blend a beauteous celebration of the sensual world with a deep sense of introspection and solitude."—San Francisco Cinematheque.