Events

See Film Studies Bulletin Board, 2nd Floor Art Building for more events.

2009-2010 Events

H. P. Lovecraft Film Shoot at MHC

September 23, 2009
Filmmakers from the California-based H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society turned the MHC campus into the fictional Miskatonic University for their upcoming film version of Lovecraft's classic tale, "The Whisperer in Darkness."

Screening of Ulrike Ottinger's Joanna D'Arc of Mongolia

Oct. 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm
101 Dwight, Mount Holyoke College
Part of the filmmaker's visit to the Valley on October 17, with a screening and discussion at Amherst Cinema.

Five College Film Studies Major Celebration

October 29, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Faculty Club Room, Willits-Hallowell,  Mount Holyoke College
Come meet faculty and students from all Five Colleges; refreshments will be served.

MHC sponsored event at Anthology Film Archives in New York

Nov. 6-7, 2009; see flyer for times | Event Flyer...
Robin Blaetz will moderate screenings of film programs curated by Peggy Ahwesh, Ericka Beckman, Abigail Child, and Su Friedrich at 6:30 and 8:30. 

Origins, Influences, and Interests: Four Women Filmakers. In her recent anthology, Women's Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks (Duke University Press, 2007), Robin Blaetz gathered together essays that contextualized the work of fifteen women filmmakers who worked from the 1950s to the present, in relation to the social, political, and artistic trends of their time. In this series of screenings, she has asked four filmmakers who came of age in the late 1970s and 80s to speak more personally about the films that influenced their work and that intrigue them, through a series of screenings and discussions. Peggy Ahwesh, Ericka Beckman, Abigail Child, and Su Friedrich have each curated a program for which (with the exception of Child) they will be present to discuss their selections. In addition, film scholars Melissa Ragona and Vera Dika will be present to discuss Child’s and Beckman’s selections, respectively. Very special thanks to Mount Holyoke College for sponsorship of this program.

2008-2009 Events

Screening: German director Rainer Simon's Jadup and Boel (1981)

Nov. 19, 2008 | Event flyer...
Rainer Simon will be available for questions immediatelyfollowing the presentation of Jadup and Boel.

Three German Filmmakers, Three Decades of Filmmaking

October 7, 2008 | Event flyer...
This double program of films share qualities of intimacy and tenderness, personal vision and form, intense seriousness, and, at times, an irresistible humor. Conversation with filmmakers will follow screening. Free and open to the public.

Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor

Professor Elizabeth Young
October 29, 2008
For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley~Rs English novel, Frankenstein, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonance in the United States. In Black Frankenstein, Elizabeth Young identifies and interprets the figure of a black American Frankenstein monster as it appears with surprising frequency throughout nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture, in fiction, film, essays, oratory, painting, and other media, and in works by both whites and African Americans.

This excellent and provocative book offers a compelling lesson in the political and cultural uses of a metaphor organized by design, as well as unconsciously, into a racial paradigm." ~ Eric J. Sundquist, author of trangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America.