From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Wed May 4 11:54:42 2022 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List) Date: Mon Mar 18 15:03:35 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] Northwest Media Commons flyer for 2022 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: What an exciting slate of talks. Thanks so much Ben for your creative programming and organizing. I am thrilled to circulate these among colleagues and look forward to attending talks. Have a great rest of the week, Sangita ________________________________ From: Schultz-Figueroa, Benjamin Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2022 11:03 AM To: Mal Ahern ; Jennifer Bean ; UW Cinema Studies List ; Schultz-Figueroa, Benjamin ; Lauren Berliner ; psufilm@pdx.edu ; Sangita Gopal ; Sergio Rigoletto ; Johnston, Alexander ; Film Studies Faculty ; Eric Ames ; jgosse@uidaho.edu ; Zoe Druick ; Clark, Joseph Subject: Northwest Media Commons flyer for 2022 Dear colleagues in the Northwest Media Commons, My name is Benjam?n Schultz-Figueroa and I have taken over organizing the NWMC. The attached flyer is for our upcoming events for the rest of the year. I am very excited to have such a great lineup of film scholars and makers, and look forward having robust discussions about their work. Please help spread the word about these events by distributing them to your respective networks. All events will be held online again this year and individual flyers for each will be distributed closer to their dates. If you have any questions or want to participate in the NWMC going forward (either as a presenter or an organizer) don't hesitate to reach out. sincerely, Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa (he, him, his) Assistant Professor of Film Studies Seattle University 901 12th Ave Seattle, WA 98122 schultzfigub@seattleu.edu https://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/undergraduate-degrees/film/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Tue May 10 15:47:19 2022 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List) Date: Mon Mar 18 15:03:35 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] [Northwest Media Commons] Flyer for "World Making and Extraction: Eco-Materialist Histories of Forestry and Film in Canada." In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Attached is the flyer (both PDF and image) for our upcoming talk next Friday titled "World Making and Extraction: Eco-Materialist Histories of Forestry and Film in Canada." Please circulate it with people who might be interested and consider attending yourself! sincerely, -Ben Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa (he, him, his) Assistant Professor of Film Studies Seattle University 901 12th Ave Seattle, WA 98122 schultzfigub@seattleu.edu https://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/undergraduate-degrees/film/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: World Making and Extraction.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 4682527 bytes Desc: World Making and Extraction.pdf URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: World Making and Extraction.png Type: image/png Size: 1799426 bytes Desc: World Making and Extraction.png URL: From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Tue May 10 12:43:49 2022 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List) Date: Mon Mar 18 15:03:35 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] Kiwi Smith Screenwriter-in-Conversation Friday May 13, 3:00-5:00 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Washington cordially invites you to a screenwriters-in-conversation event this Friday. The conversation will take place in GWN 301 on the Seattle Campus and is free to all. Details below. Please circulate widely! Speaking Directly ? A Conversation with Kirsten ?Kiwi? Smith Date: Friday, May 13 Time: 3:00-5:00pm Room: GWN 301 In this quarterly series, acclaimed moviemakers join Warren Etheredge in candid conversation about the craft (and commerce) of their profession. In three truthful talks, you?ll come to know a favorite of the festival circuit, an indie stalwart, and a box office champ ? how they made their marks, how they navigate their process, and how they advise you to pursue your own cinematic ambitions. Kirsten ?Kiwi? Smith is a screenwriter whose credits include Ella Enchanted, The House Bunny, The Ugly Truth (shot in Seattle!), 10 Things I Hate About You, and the Legally Blonde movies, all of which she penned with her writing partner, Karen McCullough. Most recently, she adapted her own book, Trinkets, as a Netflix series starring Brianna Hildebrand, Kiana Madeira, and Quintessa Swindell. She has directed short films and is still recovering from her beginnings as an aspiring poet. Kiwi attended NYU and Occidental College. Warren Etheredge has conducted over 3,500 interviews. He teaches screenwriting and filmmaking at the University of Washington and Cornish College for the Arts. He is also the Artistic Director and Co-founder of the Walla Walla Movie Crush (themoviecrush.com). Proof of vaccination and face covering required for admission. [cid:E798E79C-2F5D-42CC-9491-F3906DC0D100]_______________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Kiwi Smith photo.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 167034 bytes Desc: Kiwi Smith photo.jpg URL: From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Sun May 15 21:09:52 2022 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List) Date: Mon Mar 18 15:03:35 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] LUX and CMS competition -- Please view and vote! Message-ID: [P40 Voting Promo.png] LUX: Film Production Club and UW Cinema & Media Studies are competing in the 2022 Musicbed Film Challenge, and you can help us win! LUX: Film Production Club and the Cinema & Media Studies department are teaming up to represent UW at the 2022 Musicbed Challenge! In the last month, we assembled a crew of LUX members and CMS students to create a short film called "POINT FOUR-ZERO", which has been accepted into the running for the challenge. Now, we're competing for the People's Choice Award, which is awarded to the film that receives the most votes; and you can help us win! If we win this category, we?ll get some pretty nice prizes, including a $5k grant, film gear, and more! We hope to get these prizes to support future film productions in the UW filmmaking community, which includes you! We want you to be able to have the tools to tell the stories you want to tell on the screen (or if you're more of a film consumer rather than a creator, we want to make better local films for you to enjoy)! Here?s how voting works: * Voting opened on Friday, May 13th at 10am * Voting closes on Friday, May 27th at 10am (about two weeks from now) * Anyone can vote, including you! (and your friends, and your family, and your colleagues, coworkers?) * You can vote once every 24 hours (if you vote every day, you can cast a total of 14 votes within the voting period) * You can view our film and vote here: https://challenge.musicbed.com/submissions/7W0Qfx * Share this link with everyone you can! * You?ll need to provide and verify an email address to be able to vote. This can be your UW email. The "POINT FOUR-ZERO" crew would really appreciate it if you all helped us to push our short film to the finish line for this category. Winning this award can help expose and support the UW filmmaking community. Thank you so much for your support, and happy voting! If you have any questions, please email LUX: Film Production club at luxvideo@uw.edu. Thanks once again! -- LUX: Film Production Club University of Washington Registered Student Organization _________________________________________________________ [https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1t0gyxQaM_6_f5WAFAo-v_5SsOXwPSQ2q&revid=0B5O8rS4zDPT2ekZtSXlab0t6MUo3eFB2ZzBoZjJFNmFwTTZ3PQ] luxvideo@uw.edu https://www.luxfilmproductions.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 634250 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Fri May 20 14:29:21 2022 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List) Date: Mon Mar 18 15:03:36 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] Northwest Media Commons starts today--in an hour! Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, A reminder that Northwest Media Commons seminar series resumes today at 3.30 with a great talk "Extraction Eco-Materialist Histories of Forestry and Film in Canada" from Joseph Clark of Simon Fraser University. Zoom info and abstract of talk as well as series are attached. Please share widely to your PhD students. Hope to see you all soon! Dr. Kirsten Moana Thompson Professor and Director of Film and Media & Vice President for Policies, Academic Assembly Seattle University 901 12th Ave Casey 430-02, Seattle WA 98122 thompski@seattleu.edu www.kirstenmoanathompson.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: World Making and Extraction.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 866351 bytes Desc: World Making and Extraction.pdf URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 4. Northwest Media Commons 2022 Schedule.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 3272642 bytes Desc: 4. Northwest Media Commons 2022 Schedule.pdf URL: From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Fri May 20 14:16:51 2022 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List) Date: Mon Mar 18 15:03:36 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] [Northwest Media Commons] Flyer for "World Making and Extraction: Eco-Materialist Histories of Forestry and Film in Canada." In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Just a reminder that this event is at 3:30pm PST today. You can join us on zoom here: https://seattleu.zoom.us/j/6498489179 sincerely, -Ben Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa (he, him, his) Assistant Professor of Film Studies Seattle University 901 12th Ave Seattle, WA 98122 schultzfigub@seattleu.edu https://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/undergraduate-degrees/film/ ________________________________ From: Schultz-Figueroa, Benjamin Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2022 3:47 PM To: Mal Ahern ; Jennifer Bean ; UW Cinema Studies List ; Lauren Berliner ; psufilm@pdx.edu ; Cc: Sangita Gopal ; srigolet@uoregon.edu ; Johnston, Alexander ; Film Studies Faculty ; Eric Ames ; jgosse@uidaho.edu ; Zoe Druick ; Clark, Joseph ; Wilkinson, Clare M Subject: [Northwest Media Commons] Flyer for "World Making and Extraction: Eco-Materialist Histories of Forestry and Film in Canada." Dear Colleagues, Attached is the flyer (both PDF and image) for our upcoming talk next Friday titled "World Making and Extraction: Eco-Materialist Histories of Forestry and Film in Canada." Please circulate it with people who might be interested and consider attending yourself! sincerely, -Ben Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa (he, him, his) Assistant Professor of Film Studies Seattle University 901 12th Ave Seattle, WA 98122 schultzfigub@seattleu.edu https://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/undergraduate-degrees/film/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: World Making and Extraction.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 4682527 bytes Desc: World Making and Extraction.pdf URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: World Making and Extraction.png Type: image/png Size: 1799426 bytes Desc: World Making and Extraction.png URL: From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Mon May 23 12:08:15 2022 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List) Date: Mon Mar 18 15:03:36 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] Fwd: Feminist Media Histories - New Issue SPRING 2022 : Speculative Approaches to Media Histories I In-Reply-To: <1138853619750.1133768160073.2120622210.0.571229JL.2002@scheduler.constantcontact.com> References: <1138853619750.1133768160073.2120622210.0.571229JL.2002@scheduler.constantcontact.com> Message-ID: Dear UW film/media community ? the spring issue of FMH is live and we?re delighted to share the news. Please note the inclusion of work in this issue by our ?very own? Lauren Berliner! Please also note the CFP (bottom left panel of newsletter) for this year?s graduate student writing competition, with submissions due Sept. 1, 2022. Share at will?and take good care, Jennifer ? [https://r20.rs6.net/on.jsp?ca=48fdbfd7-9142-494e-bb5e-bc7616944cec&a=1133768160073&c=2aaf1446-31b8-11ea-b1cb-d4ae528eade9&ch=2b42a31e-31b8-11ea-b1cb-d4ae528eade9] [https://files.constantcontact.com/94339d9f701/94e7f4d3-d00c-46e0-b686-88f974fa9963.jpg] CURRENT ISSUE SPECULATIVE APPROACHES TO MEDIA HISTORIES I Vol. 8 No. 2, SPRING 2022 FEATURED ARTICLES Editor's Introduction: Sites of Speculative Encounter ALLYSON NADIA FIELD Changing the Subject: Lynn Nottage?s By the Way, Meet Vera Stark and the Making of Black Women?s Film History SAMANTHA N. SHEPPARD Narrating Looted and Living Palestinian Archives: Reparative Fabulation in Azza El-Hassan?s Kings and Extras KAREEM ESTEFAN The Vanishing Archive: Documentary Filmmaking, the Gaze, and the Metamorphosis of Atteyat al-Abnoudy YASMIN DESOUKI The Film Image of Bessie Smith: St. Louis Blues (1929) in the Post-WWII Era and its Speculative Afterlives CINTA PELEJ? Restoring the Technicolor Ornament: The Yellow Woman?s Death in The Toll of the Sea (1922) PHOEBE CHEN Lesbian Bars, Archival Media Bricolage and Research-Creation: Revisiting After Hours Chez Madame Arthur JULIANNE PIDDUCK Queer Archival Autoethnography in Ken Gonzales-Day?s Bone-Grass Boy REN HEINTZ Expanded Cinema, Recycled Cinema: A Ping-Pong Volley between VALIE EXPORT and Agn?s Varda JEFF SCHEIBLE Researching as Searching: Refusing the Archival Lacunae LIZ CZACH Towards a Methodology of Unwatched Digital Media LAUREN S. BERLINER FUTURE ISSUES Speculative Approaches to Media Histories II Guest Editor Allyson Nadia Field Theorizing Sensationalism Guest Editors Amanda Frisken and Gretchen Soderlund Media Histories of Care Guest Editors Hannah Zeavin and Olivia Banner [https://files.constantcontact.com/94339d9f701/91c9c7cd-6928-49d0-8067-ea4474b5e913.gif] [Facebook] [Twitter] Free 30-day trial subscriptions are available to all campus libraries. Remember: every issue of FMH is now available via Print on Demand. Details are here. ANNOUNCEMENTS 2022 SCMS Gender and Feminisms Caucus Grad Student Writing Competition Essay submissions are due by September 1, 2022. For details about submitting your work, click here. Dear colleagues, We're pleased to announce the Spring 2022 issue of Feminist Media Histories, a special issue on Speculative Approaches to Media Histories. Check our Facebook page and Twitter for news about our limited-time free article access, as well as author recommendations and more! Editor's Introduction: Sites of Speculative Encounter "This issue of Feminist Media Histories is the first of two issues that bring together essays invested in work that challenges the empirical, leans into the unverifiable, engages the absent, and trains a lens on the unseeable. Regardless of the many ways the discipline has become more expansive and inclusive, film and media history remains a history of survivors. The project of these issues (the companion issue is forthcoming in Summer 2022) is to propose speculation as a key method for thinking about questions of material loss and inaccessibility in new ways. The essays gathered in these pages attempt alternative methods for working with the paucity of evidence and forge innovative ways of accounting for media history?s obfuscated aspects.While their approaches are as different as the subjects they cover, the essays in these special issues reflect on and explore modes of speculation as a practice of media making, curatorship, or as a strategy necessitated by the archive?s limits. ... Speculation as a strategy, even a methodology, allows for the possibility of a film history that is neither driven nor determined by the vicissitudes of chance survival of filmic elements or extrafilmic artifacts. To an overwhelming extent, the field of cinema and media studies has been organized around extant material, with histories closely tethered to surviving evidence. Film history is a history of survivors, written at the expense of alternative voices and practices that risk being dismissed or marginalized if we can?t readily access them. When scholars aim at a broader and more inclusive film history, we often hit a wall. Instead of working with archival abundance we are faced with degrees of archival silence; what survives is often fragmentary at best and deliberately elided or effaced at worst. ... Beyond classical Hollywood cinema, the issue of survivor bias is alive for multiple media, including media made outside of mainstream spheres, the work of women and LGBTQ. and nonwhite makers, and media made in areas that have experienced or are experiencing conflict, or where media archiving is precarious at best. The result is that surviving media dominates scholarship in disproportion to produced media. This is indisputable and uncontroversial?indeed, I am trying to trouble the very acceptability of this premise in our field. When we overlook the overwhelming percentage of moving image media that does not survive or is at risk, is fragmentary, is in danger of technological obsolescence, or whose survival is contingent on specialized preservation practices, we further reify media history?s survivors and further reinforce the obfuscations of archival precarity. There is an irony to the fragility of a medium whose ontology rests on the notion of fixity. ... The topic for these special issues was conceived, then, as a way of gathering scholars who work in interstices, grapple with unseeable material, address erasures, or who are interested in artists and filmmakers working in speculative modes?out of necessity or for the generative possibilities afforded by imaginative engagement. The invitation was for work that is responding to the field?s broadening and more inclusive scope and purview by adapting and developing methodologies to better respond to new issues and concerns. Just as nonextant film requires different tools than we might bring to the study of a film print (or its digital copy), I anticipated there would be many other areas of inquiry that likewise called for forms of speculative engagement. Put another way, what methods were being developed to address archival lacunae? How are scholars finding innovative ways of working with absence, erasure, silences, and loss? Methods derived from working with images, figures, and other material might certainly be inadequate for work that looks at what can?t be seen, is immaterial, effable, or ephemeral. Or, in some cases, speculation enhances established methods by pushing against the bounds of the verifiable. ... As I?ve noted, this volume is the first of two. The essays in this Spring 2022 issue offer a range of approaches to the idea of speculation as a method and a strategy both for scholarship and artistic practice. Together, the essays investigate speculative practices, experiment in speculative methodologies, and suggest avenues for approaching questions of film and media history that are obfuscated, elusive, or otherwise non-evident. The Summer 2022 issue will emphasize creative, fabulative, and experimental forms of speculative scholarship." Feminist Media Histories is a scholarly journal devoted to feminist histories of film, video, audio, and digital technologies across a range of periods and global contexts. Inter-medial and trans-national in approach, Feminist Media Histories examines the historical role gender has played in varied media technologies, and documents women's engagement with these media as audiences and users, creators and executives, critics and theorists, technicians and laborers, educators and activists. ? Feminist Media Histories is published quarterly by the University of California Press. ?More information is available here. Feminist Media Histories | University of California Press, 155 Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612 Unsubscribe jmbean1@msn.com Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by fmheditor@ucpress.edu powered by [Trusted Email from Constant Contact - Try it FREE today.] Try email marketing for free today! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Tue May 24 21:22:37 2022 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List) Date: Mon Mar 18 15:03:37 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] Exploring Anti-racist Pedagogies with Usha Iyer (6/3) on zoom! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi folks, On behalf of the University of Washington CMS Graduate Student Association and the Exploring Anti-racist Pedagogies Committee, I am excited to announce our next virtual workshop with Dr. Usha Iyer. This event will take place on Friday, June 3rd, from 1:00PM to 2:30PM, and will be centered around Dr. Iyer's recent publications on decolonizing and de-imperializing university curricula. We will also dedicate some time for a discussion on teaching challenging texts and images. This event is open to all graduate students and faculty members who are interested in deepening their understanding of film and media geopolitics and anti-racist pedagogies. Please register for the workshop via this Eventbrite link, and let us know if you have any questions. Thanks! Warmest regards, Sarah Choi www.lightsdancefest.com + + + + + -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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As always, please circulate these to anyone you think might be interested and don't hesitate to reach out to me if you are interested in organizing an event or participating in the NWMC next year. sincerely, -Ben 'Cozy Cuddly, Armed and Dangerous': Collaborative Filmmaking with the George Jackson Brigade June 3rd, 2022 @ 3:30pm PST https://seattleu.zoom.us/j/6498489179 In this presentation, Dr. Johnston will screen footage from his collaborative work-in-progress film, Cozy Cuddly, Armed and Dangerous, about the Seattle-based Left wing "Urban Guerilla" group known as the George Jackson Brigade. While illuminating the genesis of the group in the post-Attica Prisoner?s Rights movement and chronicling its activities during its mid-1970s heyday, the film is grounded in a depiction of the contemporary lives of three surviving Brigade members, representing the collaborative process and intimate relationships that constitute the act of creation. In addition to the screening, Dr. Johnston will reflect on a turn in his approach to documentary creation with this project, towards a practice based in established long-term relationships with collaborators, cultivated through acts of mutual care that transcend the production process. Alex Johnston is a documentarian, media maker, and scholar, based in Seattle, Washington. His research and creative work examines the politics and aesthetics of documentary and non-fiction media, with a focus on projects and processes that engage with abolitionist theories and practices. His work has screened at a wide range of venues, including the Berlinale, AFI, Indie Lisboa, London Short Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival, and the Miners' Colfax Medical Center, a convalescent home for hard rock and coal miners in rural New Mexico. He is an editor of the radical online media journal NOW! 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