Thurs., August 30th – 6-9PM
Opening reception
Mother, Bethel, Harlem, USA
Thomas Allen Harris and IMA/MFA
Hunter East Harlem Gallery – 119th Street and 3rd Avenue

Mother, Bethel, Harlem, USA is a collaboration between artist and filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris and students from Hunter College’s IMA MFA program. Drawing from Harris’ extensive body of work, both as a photographer and filmmaker and as the the creative force driving his interdisciplinary project Digital Diaspora Family Reunion, the students collaboratively conceived works that are inspired by the family photo album, practices of archiving, and the local community of Harlem and East Harlem. Read More

Congrats to IMA alumna Claudia Zamora, whose thesis film The Market was just accepted into the Camden International Film Festival!

Tues., Sept. 4th | 5:30PM Refreshments
Presentation begins at 6:30PM
Lang Auditorium (HN424)
(entrance at 69th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues)
Free and Open to the Public

Please join us for an intimate conversation with Sundance award winning director Robert Greene, historian Katherine Benton Cohen (Georgetown University) and film scholar Joe McElhaney (Hunter College). We will show clips from Greene’s 2018 documentary, Bisbee ’17, which explores an eccentric Arizona mining town’s efforts to come to terms with its darkest moment. Radically combining documentary and genre elements, the film follows several members of the close knit community as they collaborate with the filmmakers to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bisbee Deportation, where 1200 immigrant miners were violently taken from their homes by a deputized force, shipped to the desert on cattle cars and left to die.

“Bisbee ’17 is a fierce, lyrical probe into the soul of a town haunted by a history it would rather forget.” – Vox

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Sponsored by the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Integrated Media Arts MFA Program, Hunter College (CUNY)

Click here to view pictures from the event.