Congrats to IMA alumna Claudia Zamora, whose thesis film The Market was just accepted into the Camden International Film Festival!
Year: 2018
Robert Greene’s Bisbee ’17: Labor Struggle and the Performance of Memory
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
Sponsored by the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Integrated Media Arts MFA Program, Hunter College (CUNY)
Prof. Ricardo Miranda’s work on exhibit
Prof. Ricardo Miranda’s work will be on exhibit until Sept. 30th. It is part of a group show titled “NEGOCIO”.
Portion of curatorial statement:
“The origin of the game, is lost in the memory of time; the game is perhaps as old as the very existence of the human being on earth. But what does the game transmit to us today apart from its playful appearance? Can art use it as a tool that reflects on challenges and social reality? Does it also work as an act of criticism? This exhibition does not pretend not to answer these questions, since it would be too ambitious, but it is formulated so that the spectator participates and, using the works of art as a guide, it investigates in the multiple planes that unfolds in games as art.”