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CinemaTalks: “The Exploding Girl”


Location: Hunter College North 4th fl – The Lang Auditorium

“The Exploding Girl” Q&A with producer Karin Chien and DP Eric Lin

Join CinemaTalks at a free screening of “The Exploding Girl” that will be followed by a Q&A session with the film’s producer Karin Chien and DP Eric Lin.

Karin won the Independent Spirit Award for Producing, and Zoe Kazan, the film’s lead actress, won the Best Actress Award at the Tribeca Film Festival.

This independent drama focuses on Ivy, a young epileptic woman, who is on her summer break from college and struggling to balance her feelings for her fledgling boyfriend while her friend Al crashes with her for the season.

Screenings & Netherlands Media Students to Take 11-Day Program at Hunter

View student work from the 11-day program.

Netherlands Media Students to Take 11-Day Program at Hunter

Sixteen students from a top-ranked university in the Netherlands will hone their skills in media arts during an 11-day program at Hunter sponsored by the Department of Film and Media Studies. They will be led by a Hunter graduate who now teaches in the Netherlands.

The 16, who will be at Hunter from February 14-February 24, are from Hogeschool Utrecht—the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences. All are students of Brian Maston, who earned a Hunter bachelor’s in Film and is now a senior lecturer in Film and Media studies, and Dutch colleague/TV producer John Driedonks. This is the second year Maston has brought a group of Hogeschool students to Hunter.

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Emerging Media Lecture – Oksana Chepelyk

Oksana Chepelyk
Emerging Media Lecture
Location: HN 502

Oksana Chepelyk was born in Kiev /Ukraine/, where she lives and works
today. She studied Art in Kiev (1978-1984) followed a post-graduate
course in Moscow (1886-1888), Amsterdam University (1995), the New
Media Study Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada (1998), a
Post-Doctoral study at Bauhaus Dessau, Germany (2000-2002). She had
residencies: CIES in Paris (1995), CREDAC, Paris (1996), Cite
International of Arts, Paris (1997), MAP, Baltimore, USA (1997),
ARTELEKU, San Sebastian, Spain (2001), FACT, Liverpool, UK (2001) and
Weimar Bauhaus, Germany (2003). She has got the Fulbright Program
Award (USA) in order to develop artistic research at UCLA (2003-2004
and 2010-2011). As an artist she was awarded with grants in France,
Germany, Spain, USA, Canada, England and Sweden (1992-2011). Her work
has been shown at MOMA, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb,
Croatia; German Historical Museum, Berlin and Munich, Germany; Museum
of the Arts History, Vienna, Austria; Museum of Contemporary Art,
Skopje, Macedonia; Museum of Jurassic Technologies, Los Angeles, USA

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