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Changing Faces of Audio-Visual Documents: Moana and Fokus

Presented by Wellesley College at Collins Cinema, Wellesley College

April 4, 2013

Sami van Ingen is a filmmaker and visual artist, and is the great-grandson of Robert Flaherty, considered to be “the father of documentary." Van Ingen works primarily in video, film, installation and performance art. This exceptional event combines a screening of Van Ingen’s tantalizing short film Fokus, with the virtually...

Surrealism and Feminism: Affinity or Antagonism?

Presented by Wellesley College at Collins Cinema, Wellesley College

March 13, 2013

 Laura Mulvey is the author of the groundbreaking 1975 manifesto of feminist film criticism, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. She returns to Wellesley in March to offer reflections on feminist film theory now and in relation to one of her specialties, cinema of the 1920s. Mulvey is Professor, Department of History of Art and Screen...

Global Science Fiction Conference

Presented by Wellesley College at Collins Cinema, Wellesley College

March 8-March 9, 2013

The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College will host a Global Science Fiction Conference on March 8 and 9 designed to bring the community and scholars together to explore the genre of science fiction as it is presented in various national and cultural traditions. Discussions will look at what it means to write...

Anand Patwardhan: Pioneer of Activist Documentary Film

Presented by Wellesley College at Collins Cinema, Wellesley College

February 27-March 1, 2013

 World-renowned filmmaker Anand Patwardhan joins us for a festival of screenings and discussions. Working from Mumbai, India since the late 1970's, Patwardhan has fashioned a mode of committed filmmaking that interrogates and disrupts social injustice on local and international levels. He has created some of the most important films in the...

Wandering Lost Souls: Cinéphile Sundays at Wellesley

Presented by Wellesley College at Collins Cinema, Wellesley College

February 10-May 5, 2013

 All Cinéphile Sunday films screen at 3:00 PM in Collins Cinema, Wellesley College.

Since its earliest days, cinema has cut the human subject free of its moorings; Siegfried Kracauer saw in certain films an “unhappy homeless soul [moving] like a stranger through the world of normal reality.” The image of...