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Professor Annette Insdorf recently interviewed writer-producer-director Aaron Sorkin as part of the 92nd Street Y’s signature film series, Reel Pieces.
An alumnus directed film had its Latin American premiere at the La Plata International Independent Film Festival FestiFreak, October 17-19. The film, The Sky is Clear and Blue Today, written and directed by Ricky D'Ambrose '12, had its World premiere last Fall at the New York Film Festival.
Professor Annette Insdorf is among the recipients of 92nd Street Y’s 2020 Extraordinary Women Awards, which honor “game-changing and trailblazing women who bring equity, leadership and contributions to their communities and who work to rebuild a world in which we all belong.”
Former Visiting Professor Thomas Elsaesser has a new book, which will be released posthumously in March from Routledge, called The Mind-Game Film. Developed from the course Elsaesser taught at Columbia, The Mind-Game Film was completed by his colleagues and former students, among whom is Adjunct Assistant Professor Seung-hoon Jeong. Jeong came from Korea to teach the course in Spring 2020 after Elsaesser’s passing. This book represents the culmination of Thomas Elsaesser’s intense and passionate thinking about the Hollywood mind-game film from…
Film and Media Studies alumna Kate Saccone '13 programmed and co-hosted an outdoor, paddle-in screening of Filibus: The Mysterious Air Pirate (1915) for The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club earlier this month.
Four Columbia films have been selected to show at the 58th New York Film Festival from September 17 to October 11.
Adjunct Assistant Professor Vito Adriaensens's found-footage ciné roman, Entre Les Images, was shown at the Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2020 where it won in its category, 'Poetry by Video Artists'.
Antonio and Piti screened at Lenfest Center for the Arts earlier this month as part of the Year of Water initiative at Columbia. Antonio and Piti is co-directed by Vincent Carelli and Wewito Piyãko and is produced by Vídeo nas Aldeias collective.
Searching for Mr. Rugoff, a documentary directed by professor Ira Deutchman, will have its world premiere at the DOC NYC Festival this November.
Adjunct Professor J. Hoberman published his new book, 'Make My Day: American Movies in the Age of Reagan', through The New Press in July.
Visiting Professor Thomas Elsaesser recently published a new book titled European Cinema and Continental Philosophy: Film As Thought Experiment, through Bloomsbury Media.
Pink Slipped, by Professor Jane M. Gaines was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2018.