Tenth Annual TFMS Film Series: Black Films Matter: The L.A. Rebellion
The fall 2016 series featured work of three L.A. Rebellion filmmakers: Zeinabu irene Davis (Spirits of Rebellion), Haile Gerima (Bush Mama), and Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep). The last two pictures are seminal, celebrated films of the movement, both about the Black urban experience in the Watts neighborhood of south Los Angeles. Davis’s Spirits of Rebellion is Find out more »
Ninth Annual TFMS Film Series: Baltimore Reel: A Celebration of Films and Filmmakers
The fall 2015 series focused on the work of three Baltimore, MD filmmakers: Lotfy Nathan (“12 O’Clock Boys,” 2013), Matt Porterfield (“Putty Hill,” 2011), and Martha Colburn (stop-motion animation, 1995-2013). Our previous eight film series had been variously organized around themes or genres and had targeted experimental, independent, and (only sometimes) mainstream practices. For the Find out more »
Eighth Annual TFMS Film Series: Hybrid Documentary: Enacting Actuality
Where does documentary end and fiction begin? For the fall 2014 film series, three documentarians – Joshua Oppenheimer, Lynne Sachs, and Terence Nance – presented work that blurred the boundaries between documentation and enactment in an emerging form of documentary practice known as “hybrid documentary.” “The notion of cinema ‘blurring the boundaries’,” British cineaste Luke Find out more »
Seventh Annual TFMS Film Series: Toil and Trouble: The Reel History of Working Women
Where do we find the history of women’s work? Canadian documentary filmmakers Caroline Martel (“The Phantom of the Operator,” 2004) and Maya Gallus (”Dish: Women, Waitressing, & the Art of Service,” 2010) and Academy Award-nominated U.S. filmmaker Connie Field (“The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter,” 1981) presented work that addressed the elusiveness of Find out more »
Sixth Annual TFMS Film Series: Ethnography & Alterity
eth·nog·ra·phy \eth-nog-ruh-fee, ɛθˈnɒgrəfi \ noun: a branch of anthropology dealing with the scientific description of individual cultures. al·ter·i·ty \ȯl-ˈter-ə-tē, -ˈte-rə-\ noun: otherness; specifically: the quality or state of being radically alien to the conscious self or a particular cultural orientation. TFMS’s Sixth Annual Film Series, fall 2012, focused the work of ethnographic filmmakers whose subjects Find out more »
Fifth Annual TFMS Film Series: Out of Bounds: Feminist Films and Filmmakers
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 »
Fourth Annual TFMS Film Series: Alternative Animation and Collage
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 »
Third Annual TFMS Film Series: Environmental Film
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 »
Second Annual TFMS Film Series: Outing the Home Movie: From the Backyard to the Big Screen
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 »
First Annual TFMS Film Series: Experimental Documentary
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 »