Events
Berkeley Film & Media Seminar
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The Berkeley Film & Media Seminar presents: "City of Lost Souls" with 'Dirty Looks' Curator Bradford Nordeen
Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm188 Dwinelle
Bradford Nordeen
In 1983, German documentary enfant terrible Rosa Von Praunheim trained his lens on the trans and gender defying Americans who ruled the nightlife scene in Berlin as cultural émigrés. Scripting the loosest of narratives around their wily New Wave performances, City of Lost Souls follows Angie Stardust, who runs the boarding house and adjacent restaurant, …
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BFMS Lecture Series: Curating 'Dirty Looks' and Presenting the Queer Cinematic Avant-Garde with Bradford Nordeen
Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm142 Dwinelle
Bradford Nordeen
Ranging from digital drag revisionism to post-bohemian celluloid, this screening and talk showcase works from eight years of “Dirty Looks,” a queer avant-garde film series that, since 2011, has brought queer artists’ cinema to audiences in NYC, LA, the Bay Area, and in a touring series, across the country. Curator Bradford Nordeen will show highlights from the past …
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BFMS Lecture Series: Homay King - "Sarah Winchester and the Origins of Silicon Valley"
Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm142 Dwinelle
Homay King
Sarah Winchester (1840-1922), heiress to the Winchester Repeating Arms company, moved from Connecticut to San Jose after the death of her husband, and spent the remainder of her life building a colossal Victorian mystery mansion. Winchester was painted by the press as an eccentric who built her mausoleum-like house out of guilt, melancholy, and superstition, in an attempt to assuage the …
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BFMS Lecture Series: “We are not worried in the least” - Arts of Critique with Jasmina Metwaly
Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm142 Dwinelle
Jasmina Metwaly
“We are not worried in the least” Arts of Critique with Jasmina Metwaly, filmmaker, artist, and founder of the Mosireen Collective Jasmina Metwaly is an artist and filmmaker based in Cairo and Berlin, and a member of the Mosireen video collective. She works in video and film, and has recently started drawing again. Rooted in performance, theater, and film, her …
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BFMS Lecture Series: Leon Gurevitch - Digital Workshops of the World: Software, Source Code and Skills Migration in the Global VFX Industries
Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm142 Dwinelle
Leon Gurevitch
Digital Workshops of the World: Software, Source Code and Skills Migration in the Global VFX Industries Over the last three decades, a network of globally distributed digital visual effects (VFX) companies have arisen from Hollywood’s traditional base in Los Angeles. As Hollywood visual effects production adopted computational practices and technologies, what started out as a branch …
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BFMS Lecture Series: Ara Osterweil
Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm142 Dwinelle
Ara Osterweil
"The Last Word: Black Fugitivity in Andy Warhol's My Hustler" This talk investigates the brief, unexplained appearance of an African-American woman named Dorothy Dean at the end of Andy Warhol's groundbreaking 1965 film, My Hustler. All but forgotten now, Dean was a recognizable figure in the downtown New York art world, as well as one of only a handful of …
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BFMS Lecture Series: Giorgio Bertellini
Thu, Sep 13, 2018, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm142 Dwinelle
In the forthcoming volume The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America (University of California Press, 2019), I seek to document and analyze an inaugural moment of today’s much discussed convergence of political and celebrity culture. Specifically, I uncover practices of public opinion management that in 1920s America …