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• Film Studies Alum Article on the Steam Train in British Cinema
• Japanese Documentary Lecture
• A Conversation with Spike Lee
• Himalayan Culture Weekend (Updated!)

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• Film Studies Fall Reception
• Director Wu Tianming Visit
• John Davidson, "Projecting Modernism after the Nazis"
• Critic's Choice with A.O. Scott
• Serene Velocity with Ernie Gehr
• European Cinema Research Forum, April 27-29,2007
• Films from the 1960s avant-garde
• "Working Class Cinema"
• Rosa Berardo
• Himalayan Culture Weekend
• A Conversation with Portuguese Filmmaker Pedro Costa
• A Conversation with Spike Lee
• "Subtitling Can be Disterbing: Film Translation of the Third Era"
• Japanese Documentary Lecture
• Randall Fried, Filmmaker
• "The Reel Maid of Orleans: The Film Lives of Joan of Arc"
• Jared Gardner, "Serial Pleasures"
• Filmmaking and Society in Contemporary Angola
• Lecture: Steve Martino, Director “Horton Hears a Who!”
• From Mandabi to Bamako: Re-Thinking African Cinema in the Context of Third Cinema
• Aesthetics, Politics, and Multiculturalism in Comparative Perspective
• Visiting Filmmaker: Christopher Zalla

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Join faculty and students for a kick-off to fall in the Wexner Center lobby.  Refreshments provided.

Also, if you are a film studies major, you'll receive at the reception a Film Studies Major card, entitling you to receive a further discount for Wex films!

Wexner Center's Film Studies Lecture

more information forthcoming!

More information forthcoming!

Rosa Berardo was born in Monte Aprazível, a small town in the state of São Paulo .   In 1985, she earned a degree in Journalism from UFG (Universidade Federal de Goiás) and went to the University of São Paulo in a federal government scholarship ( CAPES ), and in 1990, received her master’s degree in film, with a dissertation about photography. In 1991, she went to in another federal government scholarship with CNPQ. She received her second master’s degree, this time in photography, in Sorbonne, , under the orientation of Professor Dr. Philippe Dubois, author of the book O ato fotográfico, Editora Papirus. In 2000, she earned her doctorate’s degree in film in Sorbonne, Paris III.  As a visiting scholar  the Université du Québec and Montreal , in 2002, she taught doctorate students Études et Pratiques des.

Her career as a photographer started when I was 17 years. Most of them were taken in trips to Xingu, the Himalayas, , Antarctic, Europe, the Amazon, , , , etc. Some of these expeditions were published in specialized magazines in and around the world, and many national and international exhibitions were held with some of my personal images, which add up to a total of over 15 thousand photos.

Nowadays, she is  a Film Professor on the Art Department of UFG working with the graduate students of Artes e Cultura Visual and in Photography with the undergraduates in Graphic Design. Her courses, teach both the techniques and theories on the analysis of fixed and moving images. She has worked with Photography and Film, both on field and on the academic area. In 2003, she idealized and founded,  Cara Videos Productions, the first Film School in Goiás and with a group of 30 graduate students in Film and 15 in an extension course. More about her work can be found on her web site at

RosaBerardo www.rosa berardo.com.br.

As a special guest at The Ohio State University, she will share her indigenous self-determined projects and contemporary indigenous film studies in and .  She will be presenting at the Columbus Campus, Hopkins Hall, Room 362 on at 5:30 on January 28^th.

A Conversation with Spike Lee
Interviewed by James McBride

Tue, Feb 12, 2008  |  7:00PM
Mershon Auditorium

Hear Lee discuss his work and ideas with noted author and musician James McBride. McBride gained fame for The Color of Water (1996), his classic memoir about growing up in a biracial Brooklyn family led by his remarkable mother, a rabbi's daughter who married an African American preacher. Lee's next film, currently in production, is based on Miracle at St. Anna, McBride's acclaimed first novel. Its story is a panoramic yet intimate tale about four African American soldiers in Italy during World War II and how their wartime experiences shape their later lives.

Members have the first chance to secure tickets (up to two per membership) to what’s sure to be a fascinating conversation and can reserve seats by calling (614) 292-3535 by February 3. Public ticket sales begin Monday, February 4, subject to availability.

Members at the Sponsor ($250) level and above are also invited to a private reception following the conversation. Reservations are limited and can be made at the time of ticket purchase.

"Subtitling Can be Disterbing: Film Translation of the Third Era"

Dr. Abé Markus Nornes

Professor, University of Michigan

Thursday, February 14, 1:30 ­ 3:00 p.m.
³History of Japanese Documentary Film²
Dr. Markus Nornes, University of Michigan

The lecture is part of the East Asian Studies Center series entitled  The History of Popular Culture in Japan. Nornes (see below) is a very respect specialist in Japanese film.

Abé Markus Nornes is an associate professor in both the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.  He is the author of  Forest of Pressure: Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese Documentary Film (Minnesota UP) and Japanese Documentary Film: From the
Meiji Era to Hiroshima (Minnesota UP) as well as many articles in edited volumes and journals such as Cinema Journal and Film Quarterly.  He co-edited Japan-American Film Wars (Routledge), In Praise of Film Studies (Kinema Club), and many film festival retrospective catalogs.  He is on the editorial boards of Documentary Box (Japan), International Studies in Documentary, and Mechadamia and has been co-owner of the internet newsgroup KineJapan since its inception.  For the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies Publications Program he edits a digital reprint series on Japanese cinema

http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/publications/cjsfaculty/filmseries.html

Professor Nornes has also been a coordinator for the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival since 1990, where he programmed major retrospectives such as Japan-America Film Wars, In Our Own Eyes - Indigenous People's Film and Video Festival, and Den'ei Nana Henge: Seven Transfigurations in Electric Shadows. He is currently working on Traffic: The Translator's Cinema, is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press.

On Thursday, March 6, at 1:30pm, filmmaker Randall Fried will be in Jennings Hall, Room 060 to talk with interested students about his professional experiences as a screenwriter, producer, and director in Studio and Independent theatrical feature films.  The event is free to students, faculty, and staff.

Randall Fried graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in psychology before attending the University of Southern California film, winning a full scholarship from CBS his first year.  While at USC, Fried wrote and directed his MFA-thesis short film “Happy Birthday!” that won a Student Academy Award and is still used at USC as a teaching tool.  After graduation, Fried signed a three-film writing/directing deal with Lorimar-MGM, but a director’s strike ended that opportunity and sent him to Chicago where he spent ten years as an Independent Filmmaker of documentaries, PBS dramas and his first theatrical feature film.

Mr. Fried is the producer/writer/director of Heaven is a Playground, adapted from noted sports journalist, Rick Telander’s “summer diary.”  Heaven is a Playground was released by New Line Cinema in 1991.  Since that time, Fried has continued to work in the both the Independent and Studio Film Industries and has recently formed his own production company, DragonFire Films.  The first project to come from DragonFire is Fire Bay, the first-ever theatrical feature film in the arena of the 1961 Bay of Pigs operation in .

OSU alumnus, Steve Martino, returns to campus to share his insight about the making of 20^th century Fox’s “Horton Hears a Who!”  Martino will show behind the scenes footage related to animation styling for the film, special effects, the design process of translating Dr. Seuss to 3D and the use of radiosity I lighting and rendering.  

Sponsored by The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design

http://accad.osu.edu

Wexner Center for the Arts

www.wexarts.org

VISITING FILMMAKER

Sangre de mi Sangre (Christopher Zalla, 2007) 

Tues, May 13 / 7 pm

Introduced by the director.

Sangre de mi Sangre follows the adventures of a young Mexican boy who smuggles himself to New York City in search of his father only to have his belongings and identity appropriated by a con artist he encounters on the trip.  This first feature by Christopher Zalla won the Grand Jury Prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival and was included in MOMA’s New Directors/New Films festival.  Zalla graduated from Oberlin College, and his mother is a member of the faculty at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware. (110 mins, 35mm)

Tickets are $5 for students; $7 for general public.