Events
Film and Digital Media
“Mendelsohn’s Incessant Visions” Screening and Q&A with Director Duki Dror
Media Theater, M110Free and Open to the Public General Admission Seating, first come, first served Parking available in Performing Arts Lot ($4) Synopsis: This film is a cinematic mediation about the untold story of Erich Mendelsohn, whose life and career were as enigmatic and tragic as the path of the century. He drew sketches on tiny pieces […]
"Unfixed Itineraries: Film and Visual Culture from Arab Worlds"
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab, Room 306Peter Limbrick, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media, UCSC Omnia El Shakry, Associate Professor, History, UC Davis Shelby Graham, Director/Curator, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, UCSC Soraya Murray, Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media, UCSC Irene Lusztig, Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media, UCSC Neda Atanasoski, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, UCSC Jennifer Derr, Assistant Professor, […]
Public Screening of One Summer
Communications 150, Studio CYou're cordially invited to a free public screening of One Summer (2014, 93min.), with Director Yang Yishu (Nanjing University, China) in person. ABOUT THE FILM: One Summer is Director Yang Yishu’s first fiction feature. In tracing a woman’s efforts to find her husband and to understand why the police took him away without explanation, the […]
VIRTUAL – Special Session: Thinking Through Television in a Pandemic
In this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, more and more people are tuning into television (across streaming platforms, web series, and of course also pay, cable, and network TV) for news and information, comfort and company, narrative pleasure and imaginative stimulation—though also often getting misinformation, alienation, or discouragement. How is TV working, producing ways of […]