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Nestrick Room, 142 Dwinelle
Lauren Cramer, University of Toronto
Cosponsored by the Department of African American Studies The reviews of prolific music video director Harold “Hype” Williams’s one and only feature film, Belly (1998), are withering. Regarding the “brutally stylish” film, reviews describe Belly as a “gratuitous” but “dimly lit” collection of “crotch shots, topless dancers, wall-sized television screens, ganja galore and, wherever possible, crime without...
Nestrick Room, 142 Dwinelle
Jeff Scheible, King’s College, London
Berkeley Film and Media Seminar Series presents: Jeff Scheible, King’s College, London “The Ideology of Alternation: Ping Pong, Narration, and Contemporary TV” This talk examines the recurrence of ping pong across recent television—including The Morning Show, I May Destroy You, Atlanta, and The Americans—to consider how the game and its iconography participate in what Martin Brückner, Sandy Isenstadt, and...
Nestrick Room, 142 Dwinelle
OIivier Lugon, University of Lausanne
The talk will explore the history of the recent “immersive exhibitions” based on projected digital reproductions of works by famous modern painters. It will focus on one of the leading operators in the field, the “Atelier des Lumières”, founded in Paris in 2018, but actually dating back to the “Cathédrale d’images”, launched in 1977 by Gens...
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
Eugenie Brinkema, MIT
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and Department of Comparative Literature Professor Brinkema takes as her starting point an aesthetic evaluation that greets the arrival of brutal death squads in Wes Anderson’s 2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel: “I find these black uniforms very drab.” Using the problem of drabness, and a reciprocal term that is yoked to...