Alex
Rivera, visiting artist
Electronic
and digital art retrospective
Monday,
September 24, 7:00 p.m.
Office of Multicultural Affairs Artist in Residence --- in collaboration with the "Race and Its Meanings" series of the IC Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity
Master classes --- Tuesday, September 25., Park 220
- 9:30–11:30 a.m --- "A History of Latino Political Satire"
- 2:30–4:30 p.m. --- "Digital Storytelling: Secrets of the Software Arsenal"
Master classes require advance sign-up at the Office of Multicultural Affairs, 324 Egbert Hall.
Lewis
Klahr, animator extraordinaire
Screening
and master class
Evans Chan, Hong
Kong feature filmmaker
Master
class, Park 281
"Fiction and Asian American Cinema," with a screening of selections from films by Evans Chan
Spirituality
and the Cinema Series
Afterlife, dir. Kore-Ada Hirokazu, Japan, 1998,
118 min.
The recently departed arrive at a spiritual processing office where they must choose a single memory to take into the afterlife. Panel discussion follows with Lee Bailey, philosophy; Harvey Young, Cornell University; John Hochheimer, television-radio. In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Muller Chapel.
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Panel discussion with Ann Curran, David Gatten, Jennifer Tarr, and Simon Tarr, moderated by Harvey Young
Spirituality
and the Cinema Series
Black
Narcissus, Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, Great Britain, 1947,
100 min.
with visiting
film scholar Priya Jaikumar, Syracuse University
Set in the Himalayas, this haunting film explores isolation, spiritual failure, and sexual frustration in a convent. In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Muller Chapel; cosponsored by the "Race and Its Meanings" series of the IC Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity.
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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Screenings cosponsored by the Ithaca College Environmental Studies program.
This challenging, ambitious digital video shows how the landscape of architecture expresses spiritual and intellectual aspirations. Introduction by Tom Shevory, environmental studies. 7:00 p.m. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Slamdance Film Festival. Poetic cinema- tography and animation blend in a film about a 100-year-old Iowa farmer and his lifelong obsession with hybrid seed corn. 9:00 –10:00
p.m.
An eight-year-old boy remembers his father’s fight against the menace of a giant factory in their village, the state’s dubious politics of development, and a carnival mermaid. Panel follows with Naeem Inayatullah and Tom Shevory, politics, and Harvey Young, Cornell University. |
Cinema on the Edge curatorial team: Patricia R. Zimmermann, Gina Marchetti, David Gatten, and Simon Tarr
Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodation should contact the Office of Affirmative Action at 607-274-3909 (voice), 607-274-1767 (TDD), or bleblanc@ithaca.edu, as much in advance of the event as possible.
Funding for the fall 2001 Cinema on the Edge is provided by the Ithaca College Office of Multicultural Affairs; Center for the Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity; Environmental Studies program; Department of Cinema and Photography; Department of Television-Radio; Muller Chapel 25th anniversary committee; the Central New York Programmers Group; the New York State Council on the Arts; and the James B. Pendleton Endowment of the Roy H. Park School of Communications.