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“The perfect applied and collaborative project for a semester wrecked by the pandemic.” That’s how Associate Professor of Literature Pavitra Sundar described the fortuitous route her Lit 230 Bollywood Film course took this semester.

Hamilton College has received a grant from the Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to spotlight the work of filmmaker William Greaves.

The fall 2019 F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series concludes on Sunday, Dec. 8, at 2 p.m., with a screening of Dominic Gagnon’s Going South (2018).

Photographer and filmmaker Sharon Lockhart will visit the F.I.L.M. series on Wednesday, Nov. 20, to present an artist’s talk and her most recent film, Rudzienko at 4:15 p.m. in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ.

The next F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series event will feature The Goddess, a 1934 Chinese silent film about a young woman trapped in the sex trade.

The fall F.I.L.M. series continues this weekend with a special two-part presentation of Paul Cronin’s A Time to Stir. The screenings will take place in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ, and are free and open to the public.

Cinema Sarah Lawrence Director Jay Craven will visit the F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series to present a work-in-progress rough-cut of sections of a new film, Martin Eden.

For those staying on campus during fall break and who enjoy experimental film, the Capitol Theatre in Rome, N.Y., will be screening locally produced short films including animated films created last year in Hamilton’s film animation class on Thursday, Oct. 17.

Co-directors Pawel Wojtasik and John Bruce will present their new feature film, End of Life, on Sunday, Oct. 13, at 2 p.m. in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ.

The 2019 fall F.I.L.M. series opens with the Alloy Orchestra in their final visit to Hamilton. They will provide live accompaniment for Buster Keaton’s The General (1926) and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927).