UPCOMING EVENTS:

Reading and Book-Signing with Robin Blaetz, editor of Women's Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks

February 20, 7:00 PM

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Underworld with Alloy Orchestra

Admission: $1 night, at door only
Location: Academy of Music Theatre (wheelchair accessible)
February 16, 7:00 PM

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The 15th Annual Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival

AFRICANICITIES: Conflict and Community presents a "Landscapes of Violence" series film:

PROMISED PARADISE

Time/ Date: Wednesday 5 March, 7:30pm
Location: 101 Dwight Hall, Mount Holyoke College
All events are free and open to the public.

Description:

(dir. Leonard Retel Helmrich, Netherlands/Indonesia, 52 min, in Bahasan Indonesian w/ English subtitles)

Banned at the Jakarta International Film Festival, award-winning director Helmrich's humorous yet provocative film follows Agus, a Muslim puppeteer and troubadour in his efforts to understand terrorism after the 2002 Bali bombings. Looking for answers, Agus seeks out a clairvoyant to speak with the dead bombers and visits a notorious terrorist ringleader in jail to challenge his intolerance.

Co-sponsored by Film Studies, Mount Holyoke College.

Introduced by Doreen Lee, Political Science, Amherst College.

RECENT EVENTS:

A reading and book-signing with Thomas E. Wartenberg, author of Thinking on Screen: Film as Philosophy

Monday, December 3, 7:00 PM
Odyssey Bookshop, Village Commons (accross Rt 116 from Mount Holyoke College)

“This book is a powerful defense of the view that films can philosophize. Characterized by its clear and lively presentation, and by its intertwining of philosophical argument with detailed discussion of several important films, it will be of interest not just to those studying philosophy and film but to everyone who believes in the importance of film to our cognitive life.” - Berys Gaut, University of St. Andrews, UK

Su Friedrich

Thursday, November 8th
Dwight 101, 7:30 PM

Filmmaker Su Friedrich will present a screening of her film, Hide and Seek and discuss her work. Please Join Us! Sponsored by Mount Holyoke College Film Studies Program, Gender Studies Department, Amherst College English Department and Hampshire College Film & Video.

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"Blind Shots: Reviewing Pedro
Almodóvar's Matador"
Friday, September 28, 2007 -- 4:00 p.m. Kendade 305

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Melinda Barlow

Wednesday, September 19th, Dwight 101, 7:30 PM

Melinda Barlow, Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Colorado, presented a screening of her work, Lost and Found: Gestures of Rescue and Reincarnation in Contemporary Experimental Works by Women.

PAST EVENTS:

Film Festival:

MadCat Women's International Film Festival

~ Private Eyes ~

Thursday April 5th, at 7 pm
101 Dwight Hall
Mount Holyoke College

-- “Private Eyes,” the first program in curator Ariella Ben-Dov’s series, features an eclectic selection of experimental documentaries and animated works from the UK, Czech Republic, Norway and the US. The Intimacy of Strangers, follows a clandestine film crew that prowls the streets, capturing phone conversations. The filmmaker “steals” these intimate moments and explores the ever-shrinking gap between private and public spheres. Deep Woods is a performative video that lures male participants through evocative advertisements. These innovative works reveal the power of modern technologies to upend of notions of privacy.

Works include: Dear Bill Gates by Sarah Christman, Deep Woods by Alison O'Daniel, Winter Return by Chelsea Walton, The Intimacy of Strangers by Eva Weber, Human Nature by Stine Gonsholt, The Carnival of Animals by Micheala Pavlatova, and more.

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Film Screening:

Peggy Ahwesh
Monday, April 16 at 7:30
101 Dwight Hall
Mount Holyoke College

Screening and discussion.

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Film Screening:

"Perserverence & How to Develop It"
Jenny Perlin
Thursday, February 22nd, 7pm
Dwight 101
Mount Holyoke College

Filmmaker Jenny Perlin, Mount Holyoke College/Five College Visiting Artist in Film Studies, presents her new book and short film. Perlin offers a journey through obssession and self-help - the historical and cultural cycle of hard work driven by the desire to succees, subsequent emotional collapse, and the use of self-help or medication, enabling the return to work. Her book and film are inspired by a 1915 best-seller, but the cycle continues today.

Sponsored by The Odyssey Bookshop,
The Village Commons, South Hadley MA 01075

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Film Screening:

Jennifer Reeves
October 23rd, 7pm
at Gamble Auditorium
Mount Holyoke College

Jennifer Reeves will be showing her films at 7:00 in Gamble Auditorium as part of a Hampshire College event.

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Guest Lecturer:

Christian Keathley
November 9th, 4:15pm
at 220 Art Bldg.
Mount Holyoke College

Christian Keathley, Asst. Professor of Film Studies at Middlebury College will be lecturing in 220 Art Bldg. at 4:15. He will be discussing his new book, Cinephilia and History.

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Film Screening:

Robert Beaver
October 12th
at Gamble Auditorium
Mount Holyoke College

Robert Beaver will be showing and sicussing several of his rarely screened films at 7:00 in Gamble Auditorium.

Take a look at www.the-temenos.org for information about Beaver's work with the Temenos project in Greece, which he will discuss at the screening.

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Five College Faculty Film Festival:

POINTS OF CONTACT
October 2nd - 5th, 2006
at Mount Holyoke College

October 2, 3 and 4
5:30-7:00 pm
Art Building, Room 220
Mount Holyoke College

Screening of films and videos

October 2: Bill Brand and Baba Hillman
October 3: Patricia Galvis Assmus, Joan Braderman & Penny Lane
October 4: Simin Farkhondeh & Abraham Ravett

October 5
5:30-6:30 pm
Willits Conference Center
Mount Holyoke College

Celebration of the Five College Film Studies Major and Reception
7:00-9:00 pm
Dwight 101
Mount Holyoke College

Screening of short films and videos by
Susan Jahoda, Lucretia Knapp, Kara Lynch, Jenny Perlin, Chris Peryy Abraham Ravett & Weddy Woodson

Followed by Q&A with filmmakers from the entire series

Screenings programmed by Jenny Perlin, Mount Holyoke/Five College Visiting Artist in Film Studies, Sponsored by Mount Holyoke College Film Studies Program and Five Colleges. Inc.

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

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