Zoom-In is a thesis showcase presented by the MA Film and Media Studies Class of 2024. The seventh annual Zoom-In takes place at the Lenfest Center for the Arts. This year, the event will include individual presentations, discussion panels, Q+As, and supplemental screenings. The program continues to investigate classical problems of our field (documentary, theory, exhibition), as well as issues arising from today’s emerging new media.
Keynote Speaker J. Hoberman
Schedule
Friday, February 9
5 PM Welcome and Introduction
Ron Gregg, Film and Media Studies
Module: Space and Ideology: the Kowloon, the Main Melody, and Sensorial China
5:05 PM Presentation
Majorca Bateman-Coe, “Kowloon Walled City (九龍寨城): Cinematic and Emergent Media Representations of Hong Kong's ‘City of Darkness’”
5:35 PM Panel
Agnes Yiting Sun, “Chinese Contemporary Myth Being Made (2010-)”
Jinlu Li, “(Documentary, Chinese Film, Cross-Cultural Creation) A Study of J.P. Sniadecki's Sensory Ethnography Films”
6:20 PM Break
7:30 PM Film Screening: Strange Days (dir. Kathryn Bigelow ‘81, 1995)
Introduced by Majorca Bateman-Coe
Run Time: 2 hours, 25 minutes
Shown in 35mm
Saturday, February 10
Module: Rethinking the Virtual: New and Transmedia Realities
12:30 PM Introduction by Hwi-Eun Ban
12:35 PM Panel
Renfei Guo, “The Rhizome of Technology and Culture: The Great Transmedia Storytelling World”
Eileen Lu, “Converging Realities, Divergent Selves: The Study of Individuals in the Two Worlds Structure”
1:20 PM Presentation
Hwi-Eun Ban, “‘Chat, Is This Real?’: The Digital Affect and Future Path of A. I-Human Communication”
Module: Intermedial Apparatus: A Disjunctive-synthesis
1:50PM Presentation
Daniyar Sundetbay, “Qazaq Music Media Industry (1990s-2020s)”
2:20 PM Panel
Yingda Wang, “The Weights of Camera: The Poetics of the Flesh and Politics of ‘Carrying/Shoulder-Mounting the Camera’”
Yanqiu Lin, “‘What about the Droplets on the Screen?’: The Discontinuity and the Illusion of Illusion in the Perception of Contemporary Fiction Film”
Meiyi Liu, “Embodying ‘the other’: Acting and Re-temporalizing Trauma in Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Cinema”
Christopher Wang, “Disjunctive Syntheses in Visual Images: Metamorphosis of Painting, Photography and Theater in Film”
3:50 PM Closing Remarks by Meiyi Liu
3:55 PM Break
4:40 PM Film Screenings: MFA Short Films and Panel Discussion/Q&A*
*Open to Columbia University affiliates ONLY. CU ID required.
Screening
Invasive Species, (dir. Annie Ning)
Shiner (dir. Nora Marris)
hearth (dir. Cameron Clay)
Sunday, February 11
Module: Alternative Visualities: The Avant-Garde, Witches, and Queer Disney
11:30 PM Introduction by Emily Ko
11:35 PM Presentation
Emily Ko, “Part as Synecdoche, Image as Idea, Form as Feeling: ‘Obscene’ Films, Taken as a Whole, 1957-1964”
12:05 PM Presentation
Payton McCarty-Simas, “‘Unpleasant Dreams’: Feminism, Satanic Panic, and the Witch Films of the 1980s”
12:35 PM Presentation
Isabelle Brown, “‘Try the Gay Stuff, It’s Delicious’: Queer Representation, Visibility, and Legibility in Films from the Disney Renaissance and Their Live Action Adaptations”
1:05 PM Break/Lunch
2:30 PM Keynote Address, J. Hoberman
Introduced by Payton McCarty-Simas
4:15 PM Break
Module: Doubling: Mother-Daughter, Dance-Film
4:45 PM Presentation
Paige Wills, “The Maternal Melodrama: How Petite Maman, The Lost Daughter, and Saint Omer Reimagine the Mother/Daughter Double”
5:15 PM Presentation
Mia (Chuyang) Jin, “Capturing Movements: the intersection of Modern dance and experimental film in 20 century America”
Module: Politics of the Documentary: Representing Past, Present, and the Future
5:45 PM Presentation
Natalia Espinoza, “Road to the In-Between: Climate Storytelling, Ethics, and the Case for Blurring the Lines of Documentary and Fiction”
6:15 PM Presentation
Max Gaan, “Popular Documentary and Major Entertainment: Report on Contemporary Non-fiction Entertainment”
6:45 PM Closing Remarks by Rob King, Film and Media Studies