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Auditorium
Impact of the Atom Film Series
(USA, 1982) 86 min. DCP
Introduced by Shelly Lesher, Physics and Wright Laboratory
(Department of Physics, Yale Wright Laboratory, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
For more information view here.
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3:00pm, Auditorium
(France, USA, 1976) 85 min. DCP.
Introduced by members of the Yale Graduate Film Colloquium
(Yale Graduate Film Colloquium, The Dean’s Fund, Department of French’s Moliere and Co. Fund in memory of June Beckelman Guicharnaud, History of Art Department, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:00pm, Auditorium
Distinguished Lecturer Series
Ross Andersen, Poynter Fellowship
(Franke Program in Science and the Humanities and Whitney Humanities Center)
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4:00pm, Auditorium
Distinguished Lecturer Series
Zia Haider Rahman, author
In conversation with Priya Natarajan
(Franke Program in Science and the Humanities and Whitney Humanities Center)
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4:30pm, Auditorium
4:00pm, Room 208
Democracy in America Film Series
(USA, 1974) 113 min.
Talk back with Michael Denning, American Studies and English
(320 York Humanities and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
For a list of films and speakers for the full series, view here.
7:00pm, Auditorium
(Israel, 2013) 52 min.
Out, Directed by Alon Sahar
(Israel, 2018) 27 min.
Followed by a discussion with Alon Sahar and Margaret Olin
(Judaic Studies and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
In conjunction with the WHC gallery exhibit “Can Rocks Feel Pain? The Bitter Landscapes of Palestine”
2:00pm, Auditorium
Weird Greek Wave: What’s So Weird About Contemporary Greek Cinema
(Greece, 2010) 97 min.
Followed by a Q&A with the director
(Hellenic Studies Program, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:00pm, Auditorium
Curating the Past: The Louvre, Abu Dhabi & Seeing Humanity in a New Light
Featuring Elizabeth Derderian, Yale Council on Middle East Studies
(Office of New Haven and State Affairs, Yale Pathways to Arts & Humanities, Yale Council on Middle East Studies, and Whitney Humanities Center)
Register at onha.yale.edu/MOSAIC
Open to students in grades 8 - 12 (Families welcome)
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10:00am, Room 108
13th Annual Yale Graduate Conference in Film & Media Studies
Keynote Address at 4 pm, Dr. James Leo Cahill, University of Toronto
Film Screenings at 7 pm
Conference Panels on March 1 at 10 am
(Dean’s Fund for Student Symposia, Office of International Students and Scholars, Graduate and Professional Student Senate, European Studies Council at the MacMillan Center, Council on East Asian Studies, Department of French, Molière and Co. Fund in Memory of June Beckelman Guicharnaud, Department of Comparative Literature, Film and Media Studies Program, and Whitney Humanities Center)
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Auditorium
5:00pm, Room 208
Marc Weitzmann, journalist and novelist
(Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism and Whitney Humanities Center)
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4:00pm, Room 208
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
(USA, 1981) 26 min. 16mm.
Followed by a conversation with the director
(Yale Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
For more information view here.
7:00pm, Auditorium
Prisoner’s Dilemma (USA, 1974) 45 min. 16mm.
Railroad Turnbridge (USA, 1976) 3 min. 16mm.
Steelmill/Stahlwerk (USA, 1979) 27 min. 16mm.
Introduced by Joanna Fiduccia (History of Art, Yale)
(The Gagosian Gallery, New York; Film and Media Studies Program; History of Art; Yale School of Art; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
All prints courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, NY / Anthology Film Archives, NY.
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7:00pm, Auditorium
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Short films of Barbara Hammer (1939–2019)
Introduction by Ron Gregg, Columbia University
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
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7:00pm, Auditorium
(USA, 2018) 84 min.
Followed by a Q&A with the director and Richard Deming, English and Creative Writing
(Film and Media Studies, Theater Studies, English, School of Drama, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:00pm, Auditorium
5:00pm, Room 208
5:00pm, Room 208
5:00pm, Room 208
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