Hamilton will host several film experts and directors in April, participants in the Forum for Images and Languages in Motion (F.I.L.M.). All events are scheduled at 2 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium and are free and open to the public. Series programs will be introduced and contextualized by program organizer and Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald.
On Friday, April 20, at 4:15 p.m., Peter X. Feng will speak on Asian American representation in film and television. An expert on Asian Americans and the media, Feng has authored Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video (Duke University Press, 2002) and edited Screening Asian Americans (Rutgers University Press, 2002). The focus of his talk is Asian American actors in science fiction action-adventure programming--how do business practices shape television genres and racial representations? Feng is Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Delaware, where he teaches film history, Asian American studies and cultural studies.
Tony Cokes, who makes videos, designs installations and produces sound works that cause the viewer to reflect upon the ways in which modern capitalism informs our lives, will present videos from the Evil series on Sunday, April 22. Cokes' post-9/11 series of short videos (the Evil Series) are critical of the Bush administration's handling of the "war on terror." Cokes will present Evil.6: Making the Case/Faking the Books (2006), along with other videos from the Evil series, including new work. Cokes is an associate professor in the department of modern culture and media at Brown University.
On Sunday, April 29, Korean film and videomaker Gina Kim will present Invisible Light (2003). She has made several diary films and a short feature, Invisible Light, which was the major discovery at the 2004 New York Video Festival. It presents two stories of solitude. In the first, a young Korean student is exiled in the United States and struggles with loneliness and anorexia; in the second, a young woman returns to Korea after a long absence and finds herself out of touch with her past. The film's minimal mise-en-scène and its careful timing make the experience memorable. Though Kim claims that "fiction is fiction is fiction," Invisible Light was inspired by the images and ideas in the video diary that Kim has kept since college. She is currently teaching in the department of visual and environmental studies at Harvard.
On Friday, April 20, at 4:15 p.m., Peter X. Feng will speak on Asian American representation in film and television. An expert on Asian Americans and the media, Feng has authored Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video (Duke University Press, 2002) and edited Screening Asian Americans (Rutgers University Press, 2002). The focus of his talk is Asian American actors in science fiction action-adventure programming--how do business practices shape television genres and racial representations? Feng is Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Delaware, where he teaches film history, Asian American studies and cultural studies.
Tony Cokes, who makes videos, designs installations and produces sound works that cause the viewer to reflect upon the ways in which modern capitalism informs our lives, will present videos from the Evil series on Sunday, April 22. Cokes' post-9/11 series of short videos (the Evil Series) are critical of the Bush administration's handling of the "war on terror." Cokes will present Evil.6: Making the Case/Faking the Books (2006), along with other videos from the Evil series, including new work. Cokes is an associate professor in the department of modern culture and media at Brown University.
On Sunday, April 29, Korean film and videomaker Gina Kim will present Invisible Light (2003). She has made several diary films and a short feature, Invisible Light, which was the major discovery at the 2004 New York Video Festival. It presents two stories of solitude. In the first, a young Korean student is exiled in the United States and struggles with loneliness and anorexia; in the second, a young woman returns to Korea after a long absence and finds herself out of touch with her past. The film's minimal mise-en-scène and its careful timing make the experience memorable. Though Kim claims that "fiction is fiction is fiction," Invisible Light was inspired by the images and ideas in the video diary that Kim has kept since college. She is currently teaching in the department of visual and environmental studies at Harvard.
