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Želimir Žilnik Screening and Workshop


On Monday October 28th from 6:30-9:00PM, Želmir Žilnik will host a free screening and workshop. It will be open to IMA students in Hunter North 502 (space is limited).

Since 1997 Žilnik has taught workshops for film students around the world. His unusual working style often uses a combination of making a documentary as research and using the results to create his own version of ‘docu-drama’.

To see his full filmography

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IMA Fall 2013 Series: An evening with Dan Geva

The Department of Film & Media Studies and the IMA Development Fund present:

An Evening with Dan Geva

Date: Friday, September 20th, 6:30 – 9:30PM
Location: Hunter North 502, Hunter College, 695 Park Ave.

A screening of Description of a Memory (80 min., 2006) and Selections from Noise and Think Popcorn. Followed by a discussion with Dan and Professor Garnet Butchart of Duquesne University.
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Professor Ivone Margulies at Arts Across the Curriculum event

Arts Across the Curriculum event, to be held on Tuesday, September 17 in The Lang Theater. The event comprises a screening of the recent, critically acclaimed film What Maisie Knew (Millenium Entertainment, 2012), followed by a roundtable discussion with directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel, Professor Ivone Margulies of the Department of Film and Media and Professor Richard Kaye of the Department of English.

What Maisie Knew is an adaptation of the 1897 Henry James novel about a young girl caught in an acrimonious custody battle. New York Times critic A.O. Scott called the film “brilliant” and “haunting.” McGehee and Siegel’s major feature films include Uncertainty (2008) with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bee Season (2005) with Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche, and The Deep End (2001) with Tilda Swinton.


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