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Commencement Ceremony for the Department Film & Media Classes of 2020 & 2021

Monday, May 17, 2021 2pm PST

Zoom Webinar and YouTube Livestream

Featuring Keynote Speaker Rick Prelinger, UC Santa Cruz

Thu, April 8, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm PST
Zoom meeting

For decades, feminist film criticism has focused on issues of representation: images of women in film. But what are the feminist implications of the material object underlying that image, the filmstrip itself? What does feminist analysis have to offer in understanding the film image before it enters the realm of representation?

6 Programs of new non-fiction film with livestream conversations between the filmmakers and Film & Media Dept Faculty, Nico Pereda, Rizvana Bradley, Natalia Brizuela & Jeffrey Skoller. Plus Book talk with Prof. Jaimie Baron.

Click here to watch the films!

And, click here for a list of all of the current streaming films at BAMPFA!

Save the Date!

The Film & Media Department Commencement Ceremony will take place on Monday, May 17, 2021 at 2PM.

This will be a virtual ceremony.

More info to follow. 

The Eisner Prize is the highest award for creativity given on the UC Berkeley campus. This online edition of the annual Eisner competition screening, presented at BAMPFA since 1991, features this year’s prizewinner and honorable mentions in the film and video category. It offers an opportunity to see a wide range of work made by UC Berkeley students, from narratives and documentaries to experimental and essay films.

SCANDIN 115: Nordic Television and its Global Remakes

*This course is cross-listed with Film 145-001, fulfills the Global Media requirement in the Film & Media major

JAPAN 189: Topics in Japanese Film – Japanese and Transnational Asian Film and Media

San Francisco Cinematheque has a number of internships open in support of our online screenings, film festival curation and archives projects. Current internships are entirely remote work experiences. See the Volunteer/Internships page of their website for more information about San Francisco Cinematheque and the internships available. 

Fall 2020 – Pre-Approved Extra-Departmental Undergraduate Film & Media Electives

1) KOREAN 186: Introduction to Korean Cinema

*This course also satisfies the Global Media requirement under the new Film & Media curriculum

The Department of Film & Media is pleased to announce the appointment of Jeffrey Knapp as its new Department Chair effective July 1, 2020. Jeffrey Knapp is the Eggers Professor of English at Berkeley and a Faculty Affiliate of Berkeley’s Department of Film & Media.  After undergraduate and then graduate study at Berkeley, Knapp taught at Harvard for three years before returning to Berkeley in 1990.

NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR FILMS: Friday. AUGUST 14. 2020.

Submission applications with URL links must be sent by email directly to the Prizes Office. prizes@berkeley.edu  

BE SURE TO CHECK THE WEBSITE FOR COMPLETE RULES FOR ENTRY AND SUBMISSION.

From Friday, 29th November 2019 to Sunday, 2nd February 2020, in conjunction with the solo exhibition dedicated to Simone Forti, the Italo-American artist, choreographer and dancer, ICA Milano in collaboration with Fondazione Il Lazzaretto, presents in the project room the video-installation When the Towel Drops Vol 1 | Italy by the Radha May collective, composed by Elisa Giardina Papa, Nupur Mathur and Bathseba Okwenje. The installation, curated by Claudia D’Alonzo, investigates the censored representation of women, femininity, and sexuality in Italian post-war cinema. 

Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Dwinelle 142 (Nestrick Room)

Speaker: Warren Sack

Pre-Approved Extra-Departmental Undergraduate Film & Media Electives for Spring 2020

1) Ethnic Studies 190-001: Advanced Seminar in Comparative Ethnic Studies – “Displaying Race, Displaying Culture: Exhibitions, Film, Photography”

Pre-Approved Film Electives for Fall 2019

English 166, section 002: Literature in the Century of Film

SSeasn 120, section 001: Film, Visual Media, and Spectatorship Practices in Modern South Asia

Coming Fall 2019, Professor Jeffrey Skoller will be teaching a new course, Film 140-002 – The Image of Labor: Work, Film, Media and Resistance!

M/W 1:00pm-2:30pm, Dwinelle 188; Screening Tues. 5:00pm-7:00pm, Dwinelle 188 ///

Join Film & Media faculty Miryam Sas who will be moderater for a seminar presented by the Institue of East Asian Studies. Presented in conjunction with Professir Sas' Film 240 seminar, Graduate Topics in Film: Inheriting Cultural Disaster.

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Seminar: Center for Japanese Studies | May 3 | 2:30-4 p.m. | 226 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker: Saeko Kimura, Professor, Tsuda University

Moderator: Miryam Sas, Professor, UC Berkeley

Sponsor: Center for Japanese Studies (CJS)