Film Events This Week:
Monday, January 19th, 6-7pm: Dartmouth Film Society Meeting (Wilson 205)
The Dartmouth Film Society is a student organization that meets once a week to discuss the films playing at the Hopkins Center, debate important issues (like whether Ghostbusters is the best film of all time), write program notes, critique new movie trailers and vote on series proposals for future terms. You don’t have to be an expert - you just have to have an opinion!
Tuesday, January 20th, 4:30pm: "POSTHASTE PERENNIAL PATTERNS: Animations by Jodie Mack" (Hood Auditorium, Free and Open to the Public)
Using domestic and recycled materials, this program illuminates formal and cursory elements shared between fine-art abstraction and mass-produced graphic design. Questioning the role of decoration in daily life, the works unleash the kinetic energy of overlooked and wasted objects. Includes Posthaste Perennial Pattern (2010), Point de Gaze (2012), and Razzle Dazzle (2014) and others. For more details, visit www.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu
Wednesday, January 21st, 5:30pm: DALI Lab Exhibition Opening
(Berry Library, Free and Open to the Public)
Many examples of work from the DALI Lab, including digital fabrication, cyber fashion, web applications, and interactive displays. DALI is a technology innovation lab at Dartmouth College. At DALI, students work in small teams on real-world projects, while learning technical and creative skills. We help our partners communicate complex information in order to change behavior, enhance understanding, motivate exploration, and create delight. Partners include faculty, students, non-profits, government agencies, and startups. We choose projects that align with the lab’s educational mission and have a large potential for impact. DALI is sponsored by the Neukom Institute and the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College.
http://dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=32730
Wednesday, January 21st, 6pm: Alumni in the Arts Biennial Exhibition Opening Reception
(Top of the Hop, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Free and Open to the Public)
The Dartmouth Studio Art Department, the Hood Museum of Art, and the Hopkins Center for the Arts are pleased to present the second installment of the Dartmouth Alumni in the Arts Biennial Exhibition, which will be on view from January 10th through April 30th, 2015. Co-curated by Studio Art alumni Brice Brown ‘95 and Enrico Riley ‘95, this exhibition brings together an exciting and diverse range of works by 13 Dartmouth graduates. Installed in the Nearburg Gallery and Arts Forum in the Black Family Visual Arts Center as well as the Top of the Hop, the works on view showcase the exceptional talents of Dartmouth alumni who have been working professionally in the art world since graduation. The exhibition includes works of art in a wide variety of media, including painting, photography, sculpture, video, book arts, drawing, new media and sound works. For the opening reception on January 10th, Gisela Insuaste will perform an interactive, process-based live installation. http://dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=32879
Thursday, January 22nd, 7pm: National Theatre Live in HD: “Of Mice and Men”
(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $10 for students)
Broadcast in high-definition (and marking National Theatre Live’s first Broadway offering) Oscar nominee James Franco (127 Hours, Milk) and Tony Award nominee Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids, Girls) bring to life the irascible, interdependent relationship between a dreamer (Franco) and a childlike Goliath (O’Dowd), which unfolds against the backdrop of Depression-era California. This landmark revival of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck's play is a powerful portrait of the American spirit and a heartbreaking testament to the bonds of friendship.
Runtime:150m. https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/national_theatre_live_of_mice_and_men
Friday, January 23rd, 7pm: Film Special: “Dear White People”
(Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, $5 for students)
A.O. Scott says, “You want to see this movie, and you will want to talk about it afterward, even if the conversation feels a little awkward. If it doesn’t, you’re doing it wrong.” Dear White People follows four black students at an Ivy League college where riots break out after an ill-conceived “African American" themed party. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, this poignant comedy explores racial identity in "post-racial" America while weaving a universal story of forging one's unique path. D: Justin Simien, US, 2014, 100m.
https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/film_special_dear_white_people
Friday, January 23rd, 8pm: Tanya Tagaq Performs “Nanook of the North”
(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $5 for students)
Known for collaborations with Björk and the Kronos Quartet, innovative Inuit throat singer Tagaq reclaims this controversial 1922 silent film, a complex mix of sensitive anthropological footage and troubling clichés. Accompanied by percussion and violin, the Polaris Prize winner improvises a dynamic live soundtrack that evokes “images of winter storms and summer sunshine, of birth and death and sexual ecstasy, of struggle and survival” (The Georgia Straight, Vancouver). There will be a post-performance discussion with Tanya Tagaq. https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/tanya_tagaq
Saturday, January 24th, 2pm: National Theatre Live in HD: “Of Mice and Men”
(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $10 for students)
Broadcast in high-definition (and marking National Theatre Live’s first Broadway offering) Oscar nominee James Franco (127 Hours, Milk) and Tony Award nominee Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids, Girls) bring to life the irascible, interdependent relationship between a dreamer (Franco) and a childlike Goliath (O’Dowd), which unfolds against the backdrop of Depression-era California. This landmark revival of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck's play is a powerful portrait of the American spirit and a heartbreaking testament to the bonds of friendship. Runtime:150m. https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/national_theatre_live_of_mice_and_men#
Saturday, January 24th, 7pm: Film Special: “Antarctica: A Year on Ice”
(Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, $5 for students)
Spend a year at the bottom of the world. This extraordinary doc follows a close-knit, multinational community and their
unimaginable existence. Profoundly isolated, enduring both unending darkness and daylight, Antarctic residents experience firsthand the beauty and brutality of the most severe environment on Earth. Frozen
Planet cinematographer Anthony Powell captures epic battles against hellacious storms, quiet reveries
of nature's grandeur and everyday moments of work and laughter. D:
Anthony Powell, NZ, 2013, 92m.
https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/film_special_antarctica
Saturday, January 24th, 7pm: Hop Film: “Pride”
(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $5 for students)
Set in Thatcher-era England, this outrageous, heartfelt comedy tells the true story of an unlikely partnership. In solidarity, a small group of gay London activists travels to rural Wales to support a beleaguered village (Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton) during the 1984 miners strike. Needless to say, the townspeople are flummoxed by their champions. This is the Holy Grail for filmmakers: a story with a message that is also shamelessly entertaining, moving and funny. D: Matthew Warchus, UK, 2014, 120m. https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/hop_film_pride
Sunday, January 25th, 4pm: DFS Film: “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry”
(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $5 for students)
This exhilarating doc is a must-see for anyone dissatisfied with current gender politics—it will answer questions you didn’t even know you had. She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, brilliant activists who founded the modern women’s movement from 1966 to 1971. Artfully combining archival imagery with interviews with key leaders, the film dramatizes the evolving feminist movements in all their quarrelsome, scandalous, hilarious and heart-wrenching glory. D: Mary Dore, US, 2014, 92m.
https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/dfs_film_shes_beautiful_when_shes_angry
Now Playing at the Nugget:
The Imitation Game
Into the Woods
Inherent Vice
American Sniper
Ongoing Film Opportunities:
1. Like making movies or want to learn how? Email [log in to unmask] to see how you can get involved with Stories Growing Films and like on FB: http://www.facebook.com/dartmouthstoriesgrowingfilms
2. Interested in TV? Email [log in to unmask] to
see how you can get involved in Dartmouth Television!
3. The Digital Lab in the Black Family Visual Arts Center will be hosting open lab hours this term led by Chris Ivanyi. Sun: 6-9pm, Mon: 3-5pm & 6-9pm, Tues: 3-5pm, Wed: 3-5pm & 6-9pm, Thurs: 3-5pm. In the Digital Lab you can learn about working with Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, and other photo/video editing software.
Email [log in to unmask] for more info.
4. Looking for an internship in the entertainment industry? Join the DAEMA Internship Google Group for updates on what is available: http://groups.google.com/group/daema_jobsinternships
Feel free to contact me:
- If you have events that you want included on this email next week.
- If you can think of a way for me to improve these emails.
Best,
Mykel Nairne '16
Assistant to the Department of Film and Media Studies
Dartmouth College