Month: February 2012

Chantal Akerman at Hunter – March events


Chantal Akerman discusses the work of IMA MFA and Art MFA students.

March 5th MONDAY (Lang Recital Hall, 1:00-4:00pm) Chantal Akerman, international filmmaker and artist will meet with a group of select students from various disciplines—Film, Women’s studies, French, Art and Creative Writing- to discuss her aesthetics, her creative process from script writing, to making fiction features, documentaries and installation work.

Ivone Margulies (Film and Media Dept), Akerman scholar and author of Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday, and Joe McElhaney (Film and Media) and author of The Death of Classical Cinema: Lang, Minelli and Visconti will introduce and guide the class consisting of excerpts of the various films.
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Congrats to IMA student Sam Feder!

IMA student Sam Feder is the recipient of the Frameline Completion Fund for her thesis project, “Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger”.