Artist Hahn Rowe in Something about the Weather
© Rob Davidson
Artist Hahn Rowe in Something about the Weather
© Rob Davidson
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present We be the luminous blues… by acclaimed artist, alum, and Assistant Professor Adama Delphine Fawundu '18.
School of the Arts Film and Media Studies and the Maison Française present a screening of Lumière Co. film footage - 1895–1905 as part of Cinema Across Continents: Rediscovering the Lumière Brothers Film Footage.
Adama Delphine Fawundu '18 discusses her creative process, Kpoto Patchwork, and her stunning exhibition We be the luminous blues… with Professors of English and Comparative Literature, Farah Jasmine Griffin and Shana L. Redmond.
When teenager Marty McFly is accidentally blasted back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean, he finds himself tangled in his own parents' high school love story—and if he can't get them back together, he'll erase his own existence. With the help of Doc Brown, Marty races against time to fix the past and find his way home.
Carlos Barragán '24 discusses his astonishing work of immersion journalism about four young romance scammers in Lagos, Nigeria, exploring how and why they scam, and the moral dilemmas they face, with Wendy S. Walters, Associate Professor, Writing.
For over 500 years, Venezuela's Araya peninsula has been mined for its salt by hand. Benacerraf's poetic documentary captures three families of salineros across the arid marshes. Shot in black and white, Araya captures a labor and trade preserved since salt was traded like gold, continuing as an embattled way of life on the peninsula. Lenfest is excited to share this film in 35mm.
Acclaimed Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist Derrick Adams '03 presents his work that celebrates and expands the dialogue around contemporary Black life and culture through scenes of normalcy and perseverance. Response by David Antonio Cruz, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts. Introduced by Kellie Jones, Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art, Art History and Archaeology.
A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance. Screening of this stirring documentary followed by a conversation between filmmakers David Greaves and Liani Greaves and Racquel Gates, Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies.
A celebrated opera director and BAFTA Award-winning star of the stage and screen, Fiona Shaw has appeared in plays such as Medea on the West End and The Testament of Mary on Broadway, television shows such as Killing Eve, Bad Sisters, Andor, and Fleabag, and in many Hollywood and independent films. Introduced by Sarah Cole, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts and Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature.
Hundreds of years in the future, ten-year-old Arco sneaks off in his sister's rainbow time-traveling suit before he's old enough to fly—and crash-lands back in the year 2075. There, he befriends Iris and her robot caretaker, Mikki. Together, they set off on a quest to get Arco home and to save Iris’s world from peril.
Screening: Filmmakers for the Prosecution. The screening is presented in conjunction with Staging Nuremberg: How the United States and the Soviet Union Fought Over the Portrayal of Nazi Crimes, a conversation with Sylvie Lindeperg and Annette Insdorf, on Monday, October 19, at the Maison Française.
Dystopian masterpiece Brazil follows Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), a government employee who escapes monotony through daydreams of himself as a winged hero rescuing a beautiful woman. When a clerical error leads to the wrongful arrest of an innocent man instead of wanted rogue Harry Tuttle (Robert De Niro), Lowry tries to fix the mistake and in the process, meets the woman from his dreams (Kim Greist)—pulling them both deeper into a bureaucratic web of mindless red tape and mistaken identities.
Renowned Nairobi and Brooklyn-based visual artist Wangechi Mutu presents recent work, including film, sculpture, and installation at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Response by Rachel Grace Newman, African American and African Diaspora Studies. Introduced by Sarah Cole, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts and Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature.
Novelist and essayist Maaza Mengiste discusses her wide-ranging career with writer and translator Lars Horn for Columbia University’s Art + Life series, a program of intimate conversations with poets and writers organized by Undergraduate Creative Writing.
The Best Years of Our Lives follows three World War II veterans who return to their hometown and try to adjust to American civilian life. Coming from different branches of the military with ranks that don't match the social class they're returning to, each man carries the wartime dream of home—only to find himself out of step with the world he left behind.
Lewis is a young orphan inventor determined to find the mother he never knew. When a mysterious boy named Wilbur whisks him away to the year 2037, Lewis is welcomed into the wonderfully wacky Robinson family—and discovers that the family he's searching for might be closer than he thinks.
Comedian Buster Keaton stars in his own directorial debut as a determined suitor pursuing the love of his life across three different eras: the Stone Age, Ancient Rome, and the Roaring Twenties. Our screening brings this silent classic into the present with live musical accompaniment by Ben Model.
