April 7, 2022
Silver's work in film, video, and photography spans an eclectic range of subject matter and genres, exploring the personal and societal relations that identify and restrict us; the indirect routes of pleasure and desire; the stories that we dream or fabricate about others, and the stories that we construct about ourselves.
read moreMarch 23, 2022
The playwriting professor and the composer discuss their collaboration at an online School of the Arts event.
read moreMarch 8, 2022
Film Professor Tom Kalin directed a Pride episode centered on the struggle for LGBTQ+ rights in the U.
read moreFebruary 23, 2022
Readers asked questions about the symbolism of dead branches, about the “ominous upstate locals,” and why the pandemic isn’t named in the book—there were even comments about the country house decor: Cynthia, a participant and reader, sent in the question: "I love the decor for each of the five cottages and who was selected to sleep there, how did you land on those descriptions?” “I wanted Senderovsky to kind of play matchmaker between his guests and the decor.
read moreFebruary 10, 2022
That aesthetic sensibility is why Winderen does not provide a list of the recorded species in the installation.
read moreFebruary 3, 2022
Columbia’s Digital Storytelling Lab, headed by Associate Professor of Professional Practice Lance Weiler, premieres its project Blockchain Fairy Tales at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival.
read moreJanuary 29, 2022
Columbia's School of the Arts will present Jana Winderen’s “The Art of Listening: Under Water” February 3-13, 2022.
read moreJanuary 11, 2022
You might not expect blood to be a recurring leitmotif in a show about a modern dance team of 13-year-olds, but Clare Barron’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-finalist Dance Nation is unflinchingly visceral in its themes and imagery.
read moreDecember 10, 2021
At the time, the only kinds of Indian stories which received interest were “the vulnerable diaspora story, or the slum story,” Basu said, “Why would anyone want to read what I think generations of white American writers have been allowed to do, which is just a regular middle class Indian family? No trauma, no tragedy, not great poverty, not great wealth—simply the world I knew.
read moreNovember 30, 2021
“For me this book was the first time I really wanted to look at friendship,” he added later, as the conversation circled around to relationships, “and how love exists within friendship between people.
read more