Wednesday, August 1–Thursday, August 2
Best 48 Hour Film Project Screenings and Awards
Given only a character, a prop, a line of dialogue, and 48 hours, what’s possible? Come see!
(48 Hour Film Project, Film Study Program, and Films at the Whitney)?? 6 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, September 6
Films of 1968
Planet of the Apes, Director Franklin J. Schaffner
(USA, 1968) 112 min. 35mm.
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with Tony Sudol
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Friday, September 7
Dragonfly Eyes, Director Bing Xu
(China, 2017) 81 min.
A “fictional” feature constructed from 10,000+ hours of online live-stream footage from surveillance cameras, dashcams, and webcams
Followed by a Q&A with the director
(Council on East Asian Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, September 9
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
To Catch a Thief, Director Alfred Hitchcock
(USA, 1955) 106 min. 35mm.
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
2 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, September 9
Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela, Director Thomas Allen Harris
(USA, 2005) 75 min.
Followed by a discussion with the director and Charles Musser
(African American Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, September 13
Selected Films of Robert Beavers, Presented by the DirectorAMOR
(1980, 35mm., color, sound, 15 min.)
The Stoas (1991-97, 16mm., color, sound, 22 min.)
Among the Eucalyptuses (2017, 16mm., color, silent, 5 min.)
Listening to the Space in my Room (2013, 16mm., color, sound; 19 min.)
The Suppliant (2010, 16 or 35mm., color, sound, 5 min.)
Der Klang, Die Welt (2018, 16mm., color, sound, 4.5 min.)
(Film and Media Studies and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
1 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, September 20
Ingmar Bergman Centenary Screenings
35 mm prints from the Yale Film Archive Summer with Monika (Sweden, 1953) 96 min. Sawdust and Tinsel (Sweden, 1953) 93 min.
(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)
7 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, September 22
Fargo, Directors Joel and Ethan Coen
(USA, 1996) 98 min.
Introduced and followed by a discussion led by a member of the Yale Film Society (Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, September 27
Democracy in America Film Series
A Face in the Crowd, Director Elia Kazan
(USA, 1957) 126 min.
Talk back with Michael Denning, American Studies
(320 York Humanities and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:30 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, September 29
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive and Democracy in America Film Series
Medium Cool, Director Haskell Wexler
(USA, 1969) 111 min. 35mm, print courtesy of Yale Film Archive Talk back with Beverly Gage, History
(320 York Humanities; 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) 7 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, September 30
Unrest, Director Jennifer Brea
(USA, 2017) 98 min.
Followed by a discussion with co-star Omar Wason
(Film and Media Studies and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, October 4
What Time Is It There, Director Tsai Ming-Liang
(Taiwan, 2001) 116 min. 35mm.
Presented by the Graduate Film Colloquium Introduction by Jean Ma, Stanford University
(Reni Celeste Memorial Fund; Council on East Asian Studies; Yale Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; 35mm print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
8 pm, Auditorium
Friday, October 5
The 2018 Reni Celeste Memorial Lecture
Jean Ma, Stanford University
“What Lies Beneath: Apichatpong’s Narcoleptic Visions”
(Yale Film and Media Studies Program, Reni Celeste Memorial Fund, Council on East Asian Studies, and Whitney Humanities Center)
4 pm, Room 208
Friday, October 5
Kaili Blues, Director Bi Gan
(China, 2015) 113 min.
Followed by a conversation with film critic Jean-Michel Frodon and the director (Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, Film and Media Studies Program, Comparative Literature, Films at the Whitney supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale, and Whitney Humanities Center)
6:30 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, October 10
The Long Farewell: The Films of Kira Muratova
Asthetic Syndrome, Director Kira Muratova
(Soviet Union, 1990) 153 min. DCP Introduction by Matthew McWilliams
(Russian Studies, European Studies Council, Film and Media Studies, MacMillan Center, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale) 7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, October 11
Ingmar Bergman Centenary Screenings 35mm prints from the Yale Film Archive
The Seventh Seal (Sweden, 1957) 96 min.
The Magician (Sweden, 1958) 101 min.
(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)
7 pm, Auditorium
Friday, October 12
The Rest I Make Up, Director Michelle Memran
(USA, 2018) 79 min.
Followed by a discussion with the director
(Theater Studies, Performance Studies Working Group, Yale School of Drama, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
2:30 pm, Auditorium
Friday, October 12
The Divide, Director Perry King (Yale College ‘70)
(USA, 2018) 103 min.
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with the director and star
(Yale Film Alliance, Yale Film Society, Howard Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, October 13
Plain Fiction, Director/producer Cyrus Duff (YC ‘18)
(USA, 2018) 100 min.
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with Cyrus Duff (YC ‘18) and writer/actor/producer Edward Columbia (YC ‘18)
(Yale Film Alliance, Yale Film Society, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
3 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, October 13
Democracy in America Film Series
The Manchurian Candidate, Director John Frankenheimer
(USA, 1962) 126 min.|
Talk back with Katie Trumpener, Comparative Literature
(320 York Humanities and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:30 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, October 21
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive Marie Antoinette, Director Sofia Coppola
(USA, 2006) 123 min. 35mm.
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
2 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, October 24
Can Democracy Work? A Short History of a Radical Idea
A book talk with James Miller (New School), Daniela Cammack (Yale), and Hélène Landemore (Yale)
(Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions and Whitney Humanities Center)
4 pm, Room 208
Friday, October 26
Chewing the Fat
Eating Animals, Director Christopher Quinn
(USA, 2017) 94 min.
Follow by a conversation with the director
(Yale Sustainable Food Program and Whitney Humanities Center) 6:30 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, October 27
Films of 1968
Kill!, Director Kihachi Okamoto
(Japan, 1968) 115 min.
Introduced and followed by a discussion led by a member of the Yale Film Society (Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, November 1
Democracy in America Film Series Lone Star, Director John Sayles
(USA, 1996) 135 min.
Talk back with John Sayles and Maggie Renzi
(320 York Humanities and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:30 pm, Auditorium
Friday, November 2
A Clockwork Orange, Director Stanley Kubrick
(UK, 1971) 136 mim. 35mm.
(Yale Center for British Art, 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)
7 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, November 3
Films of 1968
Stolen Kisses, Director Francois Truffaut
(France, 1968) 90 min.
Introduced and followed by a discussion led by a member of the Yale Film Society (Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, November 4
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive Katho Upanishad, Director Ashish Avikunthak
(India, 2011) 80 min. 35mm.
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
2 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, November 4
The House on Coco Road, Director Damani Baker
(USA, 2016) 78 min.
Followed by a discussion with the director
(Film and Media Studies and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, November 7
Mimosas, Director Oliver Laxe (Spain, Morocco, 2016) 96 min. In Arabic with English subtitles
In conjunction with David Shulman’s Finzi-Contini Lectures “Caught in the Cogs of Time” part 1 of which follows at 5pm.
(Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
3 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, November 7–Sunday, November 11
Latino & Iberian Film Festival
Opening Night Film: Traslasierra (Behind the Hills), Director Juan Pablo Sasiaín (Argentin, 2018) 85 min.
Followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker
(The MacMillan Center Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies; The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, November 14
The Long Farewell: The Films of Kira Muratov
The Long Farewell, Director Kira Muratova
(Soviet Union, 1971) 97 min. DCP Introduction by Valeria Mutc
(Russian Studies, European Studies Council, Film and Media Studies, MacMillan Center, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale) 7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, November 15
Ingmar Bergman Centenary Screenings
35 mm. prints from the Yale Film Archive Through a Glass Darkly
(Sweden, 1961) 89 min. Persona (Sweden, 1966) 83 min.
(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)
7 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, November 17
The Literary Legacy of World War I Paths of Glory, Director Stanley Kubrick (USA, 1957) 98 min.
Post screening conversation with Benjamin Busch (Generation Kill, The Wire, Dust to Dust), Brianne Bilsky (Berkeley College ), and Jennifer Orth-Veillon (Curator, World War One Centennial Commission Blog)
Moderated by Peter Molin, Rutgers University
(Yale Veterans Association, Yale University’s Office of the Secretary, and Whitney Humanities Center)
1 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, November 28
The Long Farewell: The Films of Kira Muratova
Getting to Know The Big, Wide World, Director Kira Muratova
(Soviet Union, 1980) 75 min. DCP
Introduction by Spencer Small
(Russian Studies, European Studies Council, Film and Media Studies, MacMillan Center, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale) 7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, November 29
Far from the Tree, Director Rachel Dretzin ’87 (USA, 2018) 93 min.
Post-screening panel discussion featuring director Rachel Dretzin ’87, P ’20, and writer and producer Andrew Solomon ’85
(Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office, Department of Psychiatry, Connecticut Mental Health Center Foundation, Program for Humanities in Medicine, Franke Program in Science and the Humanities)
4:30 pm, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Friday, November 30
Special Screening
First Man, Director Damien Chazelle
(USA, 2018) 141 min. DCP
Introduced and followed by a Q&A with screenwriter Josh Singer (YC ‘94)
(Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:30 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, December 2
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring, Director Ki-duk Kim
(South Korea, 2003) 103 min. 35mm.
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
2 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, December 5
The Long Farewell: The Films of Kira Muratova
Eternal Homecoming, Director Kira Muratova
(Ukraine, 2012) 114 min. DCP
Introduction by Carlotta Chenoweth
(Russian Studies, European Studies Council, Film and Media Studies, MacMillan Center, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, December 6
Gift of the Sea, Director Morimura Yasumasa (Japan, 2010) 23 min.
4 pm, Room 208
Followed by Ayelet Zohar, Tel Aviv University
Speaking on “Morimura Yasumasa’s re-enactment of Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima: Between Gender and Nation, Japan and the USA”
(Council on East Asian Studies and Whitney Humanities Center) 4:30 pm, Room 208
Thursday, December 6
Lisa Margonelli, science journalist
“Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology”
(Environmental Humanities Initiative, SAGE Magazine, Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, Yale Animal Law Speaker Series, and Franke Program in Science and Humanities)
4:30 pm, Sage Hall (205 Prospect St.), Room 41C For more information see poster
Thursday, December 6
Ingmar Bergman Centenary Screenings
35 mm. prints from the Yale Film Archive
Smiles of a Summer Night (Sweden, 1955) 108 min.
Wild Strawberries (Sweden, 1957) 91 min.
(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)
7 pm, Auditorium
Friday, December 7
Democracy in America Film Series Boycott, Director Clark Johnson
(USA, 1957) 118 min.
Talk back with Nikhil Singh, NYU American Studies
(320 York Humanities and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:30 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, December 8
Films of 1968
Fireman’s Ball, Director Milos Forman
(USA, 1968) 75 min.
Introduced and followed by a discussion led by a member of the Yale Film Society (Yale Film Society and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, December 9
I am a Seagull, Directors Brian Mertes and Alex Harvey
(USA, 2017)
Introduced by Joan MacIntosh, School of Drama
Followed by a talk-back with the filmmakers and members of the cast
(School of Drama and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
2 pm, Auditorium