Cinema on the Edge Film Series
Continues with Spring Offerings
The Department of
Cinema and Photography will continue its Cinema on the Edge series this
spring. The presentations, lectures, and film and video screenings will
be held in Park Hall Auditorium and are free and open to the public.
Hollywood and Alternative
Distribution — Monday, February 12, 1:00 p.m.
Wendy Lidell of
Winstar Cinema, a New York City film and video distributor, describes
strategies and challenges for contemporary distribution of commercial
narratives and independent works.
19th Annual Black
Maria Film Festival — Monday, February 12, 7:00 p.m.
Festival director
John Columbus presents vibrant film and video entries from around the
world as the festival makes its annual national tour.
 
Cinema on the Edge spring
screenings will include entries from the Asian American International Film
Festival (right) and the Black Maria Film Festival (center), as well as
Michelle Parkerson’s documentary Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey
in the Rock.
Artist in residence
Art Jones
Music
and Political Activism: The Not Channel Zero Retrospective — Monday, February
26, 7:00 p.m.
Digital
Imaginations of the African Diaspora — Tuesday, February 27, 7:00 p.m.
Art Jones is an
image/sound manipulator whose documentaries, experimental music videos,
CD-ROMs, live video mixes, and installations probe the relationships
among music, visual culture, history, and power. His visit to Ithaca
College is a component of the "Reverberations: Music of the African
Diaspora" series and is cosponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs;
the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity; and the School
of Music in observance of Black History Month.
African American
Women, Music, and Activism — Wednesday, March 7, 7:00 p.m.
This screening,
a component of the "Reverberations: Music of the African Diaspora" series,
features two critically acclaimed documentaries by Michelle Parkerson:
Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey in the Rock (1983) and Stormé:
The Lady of the Jewel Box (1987). A panel discussion will follow
with faculty from politics, music, and cinema and photography. The event
is cosponsored by the School of Music and the Center for the Study of
Culture, Race, and Ethnicity.
Asian American
International Film Festival — Monday, March 26, 1:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m.;
Tuesday, March 27, 7:00 p.m.
The nation’s first
festival dedicated to screening works written, produced, and directed
by filmmakers of Asian descent is in its 23rd year. The Village Voice
calls this the festival’s "quirkiest year ever." The event is cosponsored
by the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
Martin Arnold’s
Hollywood Attack — Monday, April 30, 7:00 p.m.
Vienna-born experimental
filmmaker Martin Arnold is known for radically manipulating classic
Hollywood film to lay bare what he calls its subtle yet intricate perversions.
His optical effects transform American dreams into surrealist nightmares.
Cinema on the Edge
is supported by the James B. Pendleton Endowment of the Roy H. Park School
of Communications, with additional support from the Office of Multicultural
Affairs; the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity; the
Central New York Programmers Group; and the New York State Council on
the Arts. The series is curated by Patricia Zimmermann and Gina Marchetti
of the cinema and photography department. For more information call Zimmermann
at 274-3431.
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