F.I.L.M. Series
This series is made possible by the office of the Dean of the Faculty (the Hansford fund) and by support from the Kirkland Endowment, the Art History Department, and the Days-Massolo Center.
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Professor Martine Guyot-Bender presents Samuel Aubin and his film, Khuong Mê’s Dark Room: His Life and His Work (La Chambre noire de khuong, (2002, 62 minutes).
Khuong Mê’s Dark Room is an attempt by documentary filmmaker and essayist Samuel Aubin’s to piece together the puzzle of Vietnamese filmmaker/propagandist Khuong Mê’s life. During Vietnam’s struggle against French colonialist rule, and later during the Vietnam War, Khuong Mê made propaganda films suppor...When 2:00 p.m. Sunday, April 14Where Kirner-Johnson (KJ) 125 Bradford Auditorium, Map #14Open to Off Campus Guests -
Professors Jason Cieply and Scott MacDonald present Sergei Loznitsa’s State Funeral (2019, 135 minutes)
On the death of Josef Stalin in March of 1953, the USSR produced The Great Farewell. Shot in regions across the Soviet Union and points beyond, the film culminated with the dictator’s colossal Red Square funeral. This Soviet paean to Stalin was almost immediately suppressed, on the grounds that it was devoted to a cult of personality. The Great Farewell said farewell until 1988—almost no one saw the film. In...When 2:00 p.m. Sunday, April 28Where Kirner-Johnson (KJ) 125 Bradford Auditorium, Map #14Open to Off Campus Guests
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