Hamilton College and Colgate University will co-host a film symposium, "Nature/Place/Cinema," on April 4-6 and April 11-13 that will be held on both campuses. The symposium will focus on the representation of landscape, place and the natural world in film and video. It will feature visiting filmmakers who will screen their films and videos as well as lectures by cinema scholars. All events are free and open to the public.
The symposium will draw attention to two overlooked dimensions of moving-image history that relate to the depiction of place and the environment: the emergence during the past 25 years of a modern school of landscape filmmaking/videomaking; and the long, generally under-appreciated history of the nature (or "wildlife") film. It will also examine cinematic manifestations of place, as they relate to contemporary culture, history, and habitat. "Nature/Place/Cinema" will engage a wide range of academic disciplines and will seek to spark dialogues related to new understandings of nature films contemporary film scholarship.
Hamilton events will be held in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson Building and Colgate University events will take place at Golden Auditorium, 105 Little Hall.
Presenters will include producer James Benning; video artist Catherine Chalmers;
Matthew Coolidge, founder and director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) in Los Angeles; Tarek Elhaik, assistant professor of anthropology, Rice University; Don Fredericksen (Colgate '67), professor of film and director of undergraduate studies in film at Cornell University; filmmaker, curator and critic John Gianvito; Dutch/Indonesian filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich; Peter Hutton, professor of film and director of the Film and Electronic Arts Program at Bard College; media artist Marina McDougall, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, an ethnographic filmmaker.
Films to be screened include 13 Lakes; At Sea; casting a glance; The Eye of the Day;
Shape of the Moon; Farribique; Biquefarre; Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind; and Safari.
The symposium is funded by Hamilton College and Colgate University and organized by Scott MacDonald of Hamilton College, Luca Caminati, John Knecht, Masha Salazkina, and Lynn Schwarzer of Colgate University.
For further information about the symposium, directions to the campuses or lodging, visit http://cliffordgallery.org/npc, or contact Lynn Schwarzer at Colgate University or Scott MacDonald at Hamilton College.
The symposium will draw attention to two overlooked dimensions of moving-image history that relate to the depiction of place and the environment: the emergence during the past 25 years of a modern school of landscape filmmaking/videomaking; and the long, generally under-appreciated history of the nature (or "wildlife") film. It will also examine cinematic manifestations of place, as they relate to contemporary culture, history, and habitat. "Nature/Place/Cinema" will engage a wide range of academic disciplines and will seek to spark dialogues related to new understandings of nature films contemporary film scholarship.
Hamilton events will be held in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson Building and Colgate University events will take place at Golden Auditorium, 105 Little Hall.
Presenters will include producer James Benning; video artist Catherine Chalmers;
Matthew Coolidge, founder and director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) in Los Angeles; Tarek Elhaik, assistant professor of anthropology, Rice University; Don Fredericksen (Colgate '67), professor of film and director of undergraduate studies in film at Cornell University; filmmaker, curator and critic John Gianvito; Dutch/Indonesian filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich; Peter Hutton, professor of film and director of the Film and Electronic Arts Program at Bard College; media artist Marina McDougall, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, an ethnographic filmmaker.
Films to be screened include 13 Lakes; At Sea; casting a glance; The Eye of the Day;
Shape of the Moon; Farribique; Biquefarre; Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind; and Safari.
The symposium is funded by Hamilton College and Colgate University and organized by Scott MacDonald of Hamilton College, Luca Caminati, John Knecht, Masha Salazkina, and Lynn Schwarzer of Colgate University.
For further information about the symposium, directions to the campuses or lodging, visit http://cliffordgallery.org/npc, or contact Lynn Schwarzer at Colgate University or Scott MacDonald at Hamilton College.
