2nd Annual Feirstein Film Festival—Screen Studies Conference

Please join us for the

Second Annual

FEIRSTEIN FILM FESTIVAL

Screen Studies Conference

by the MA Class of 2019

Monday, May 20, 2019
1:00pm - 5:00pm

You are invited to the 2019 M.A. in Screen Studies Annual Conference, where we celebrate the accomplishments of the students in the Screen Studies Masters Program. The event will feature the thesis work completed by the talented students in the program organized into two panels focusing on a wide range of topics, including Women Horror Filmmakers, Film Festivals and the #MeToo Movement, Mourning in Baseball Anime, Experimental Cinema and Literary Adaptation, Screen Representations of Women, Eating, and Food, and the Current State of the Media in Turkey. Presentations will include examples of hybrid work, with a selection of students presenting visual projects based on in-depth research conducted as part of a broader thesis experience. Festivities start at 1:00pm and include two panels and a closing keynote address.

Screen Studies Students:

Bengisu Aktulga

L. McCarthy

Hyemin Kim

Lacey Beattie

Amy El-Shafei

Chloe Acerra

Guest Panelists:

Leo Goldsmith is a New York-based scholar and curator who works at the intersection of experimental moving-image media, documentary film, media ecologies, and digital culture. He completed his PhD at the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University in 2018. With Robert Stam and Richard Porton, he is a co-author of Keywords in Subversive Film/Media Aesthetics (Wiley 2015). His book on the radical documentary practices of British filmmaker Peter Watkins, co-authored with Rachael Rakes, is forthcoming from Verso.

Elisabeth Weis is Professor Emerita of Film at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She received her B. A. in English Literature from Cornell (Summa cum Laude), an M. A. in English from New York University, and, in 1978, the first Ph.D. in Film from Columbia University. Weis is the author of The Silent Scream: Alfred Hitchcock's Sound Track and the co-editor, with John Belton, of Film Sound: Theory and Practice. Since 1974, she has served as the Executive Director of the National Society of Film Critics.

Keynote Speaker:

Originally hailing from London, England, Ashley Clark is the senior repertory and specialty film programmer at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), and a member of the selection committee for BAMcinemaFest, positions he has held since August 2017. Series organized by Ashley at BAM include Black Skin, White Masks: Cinema Inspired by Frantz Fanon (Oct 2017), Fight The Power: Black Superheroes on Film (Feb 2018), Race, Sex & Cinema: The World of Marlon Riggs (Feb 2019), and Black 90s: A Turning Point in American Cinema (May 2019). Prior to joining BAM, Ashley worked in communications and as an arts administrator for organizations including the British Film Institute, the Royal African Society, Digital Theatre and Arts Council England. Later, working a freelance film programmer, he organized film series at BFI Southbank, the Museum of Modern Art, TIFF, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, and the True/False Film Festival, among other venues. Ashley has also extensively contributed writing and criticism to publications including Film Comment, Sight & Sound, The Criterion Collection, and the Guardian. His first book is Facing Blackness: Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee’s “Bamboozled” (2015).

For more Information about the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema

2019 Thesis Projects visit: www.Feirstein.Film/FFF2019

RSVP IS REQUIRED by May 17, 2019 at 5pm

-Seats are limited and available on first-come/first-served basis

-Invitation is Non-Transferable