Saturday, January 12
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
20th Anniversary Screening
The Thin Red Line, Director Terrence Malick
(USA, 1999) 170 min.
(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, January 19
Vagabond, Director Agnès Varda
(France, 1985) 105 min.
Introduced and followed by a discussion with members 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
Tuesday, January 22
Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters, Directors Rosalynde LeBlanc and Tom Hurwitz
A work-in-progress screening introduced by Emily Coates and followed by a Q & A with the directors
In conjunction with John Lucas’s Documentary Film Workshop and Emily Coates’s
Dance on Film courses.
(Dance Studies Curriculum in Theater Studies, Film and Media Studies, First-Year Seminar Program, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, January 24
Democracy in America Film Series Network, Director Sidney Lumet
(USA, 1976) 121 min.
Talk back with Jim Sleeper, Political Science
(320 York Humanities and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:30 pm, Auditorium
Friday, January 25
The Price of Everything, Director Nathaniel Kahn (YC ‘85)
(USA, 2018) 98 min. DCP
Followed by a conversation with the director; producer Carla Solomon (YC ‘75); and Heather Pontonio, Senior Program Director (Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation); moderator, Jock Reynolds, Former Henry J. Heinz II Director, Yale University Art Gallery
(Yale Art Gallery, Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, February 3
The Ancient Law (Das Alte Gesetz), Director Ewald André Dupont
(Germany, 1923) 135 min.
With a live, newly-composed score by world-famous musicians: silent film pianist Donald Sosin and klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals
Introduced by Charles Musser
(Sunrise Foundation for Education and the Arts, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Film and Media Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
2 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, February 7
Hogarth and Cinema: Yale 18th & 19th Century Art and Visual Culture Colloquium
Bedlam, Director Mark Robson
(USA, 1946) 79 min. 35mm. print preserved by the Library of Congress Introduced by Brigitte Peucker
(Lewis Walpole Library, Yale Center for British Art, History of Art, Dean’s Fund for Student Colloquia, Yale Film Study Center, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Friday, February 8–Saturday, February 9
Wearing Out the Image: Film and Media Studies Graduate Student Conference 2019
Keynote address by Elena Gorfinkel, King’s College London
(Dean’s Fund; Office of International Students and Scholars (OISS); Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS); Film and Media Studies; History of Art, French, Germanic Languages, and Literatures; Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
4 pm, Auditorium
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On the Edge (Sur la planche), Director Leila Kilani (Germany, Morocco, France; 2011) 110 min. DCP in French with English subtitles
7 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, February 9
Equinox Flower, Director Yasujiro Ozu
(Japan, 1958) 118 min. 35mm.
Introduced and followed by a discussion with members 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
Friday, February 15
Hogarth and Cinema: Yale 18th & 19th Century Art and Visual Culture Colloquium
Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son, Director Ken Jacobs
(USA, 1969) 115 min. 16mm.
Introduced and commented on by the director and followed by a Q&A with the director,
John MacKay and Pierre Von-Ow
(Lewis Walpole Library, Yale Center for British Art, History of Art, Dean’s Fund for Student Colloquia, Yale Film Study Center, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
6:30 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, February 16
Ornament of the World, Director Michael Schwarz (YC ‘75)
(USA, 2018) 106 min.
How Muslims, Jews, and Christians created a culture of tolerance in medieval Spain, based on the book by María Rosa Menocal
Introduced by the director and followed by a discussion with the director, Abigail Balbale (NYU), and Jerrilynn Dodds (Sarah Lawrence)
(Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
4 pm, Auditorium
Sunday, February 17
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
The City of Lost Children, Directors Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
(France, 1995) 102 min.
(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
Thursday, February 21
Democracy in America Film Series
Milk, Director Gus Van Sant
(USA, 2008) 128 min.
Talk back with Laura Wexler, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies
(320 York Humanities and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:30 pm, Auditorium
Friday, February 22–Sunday, February 24
Kinema Club XVIII: Gender and Sexuality in Japanese Cinema—A Unique CFP (Council on East Asian Studies; Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; National Film Archive of Japan; East Asian Languages and Literatures; Film and Media Studies; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
Auditorium
Wednesday, February 27
On Creativity: A Conversation among Friends
With award-winning sculptor Susan Clinard, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jake Halpern, Grammy-nominated pianist Andrius Zlabys, dancer/choreographer Wendy Clinard, and award-winning playwright/director Toto Kisaku
The conversation will open with a brief performance in the auditorium by Andrius Zlabys, whose music will be a direct response to Susan Clinard’s sculptures.
The five friends will then move to Room 108 for a discussion of their creative processes and its role in their lives.
(Whitney Humanities Center)
In conjunction with the Gallery exhibit “Places We’ve Seen: Sculptures by Susan Clinard”; for brief bios see
5 pm, Auditorium and then Room 108
Thursday, February 28
Bioethics Film Series
Contagion, Director Steven Soderbergh
(USA, 2011) 106 min.
Introduced and followed by a discussion with Stephen Latham
(Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, March 2
Three Colors: Red, Director Krzysztof Kieślowski
(France, 1994) 99 min. 35mm.
Introduced and followed by a discussion with members 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, March 3
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
The Circle, Director Jafar Panahi
(Iran, 2000) 90 min
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
Tuesday, March 5th
Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf, Director Susan Youssef
(Canada, Netherlands, Lebanon, Qatar, USA, UAE, 2019) 84min. DCP.
Followed by a discussion with the director
(Yale MacMillan Center and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
6 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, March 6
American Traditional War Songs, Director Sky Hopinka
Visions of an Island (2016, 15 min.)
Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary (2017, 13 min.)
I’ll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You’ll Become (2016, 12 min.)
Dislocation Blues (2017, 16 min.)
Fainting Spells (2018, 11 min.) Followed by a Q&A with the director
Mr. Hopinka’s “ethno-poetic” videos journey through indigenous lands across the U.S., engaging dense layers of testimony, folklore, and song in their unsettled exploration of homeland and language.
(Native American Cultural Center; Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration; Yale Film Society; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, 212 York
Thursday, March 7
Democracy in America Film Series The Candidate, Director Michael Ritchie
(USA, 1972) 110 min.
Talk back with John MacKay, Film and Media Studies
(320 York Humanities and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:30 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, March 27
In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America, Director Maurice Fitzpatrick
(UK, 2019) 90 min. DCP
Q&A to follow with the director
(MacMillan Center, Poynter Fellowship, European Studies Council, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
6:30 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, March 30
Princess Mononoke, Director Hayao Miyazaki
(Japan, 1997) 133 min. 35mm, print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive Introduced and followed by a discussion with members 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
Tuesday, April 2
Chewing the Fat
ULAM: Main Dish, Director Alexandra Cuerdo
(USA, 2018) 90 min.
Followed by a conversation with director and documentary filmmaker Moderator: Mary Lui
(Yale Sustainable Food Program, Timothy Dwight College, KASAMA, Asian American Cultural Center, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, April 4
Democracy in America Film Series Selma, Director Ava DuVernay
(USA, 2014) 152 min.
Talk back with Crystal Feimster, African 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
Friday, April 5–Saturday, April 6
Annual European Film Conference: 1939
(Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kepmf Fund, Department of French, Moliére and Co Fund in Memory of June BeckelmanGuicharnaud, Department of History of Art, Film and Media Studies, Judaic Studies, Department of Italian Language and Literature, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, European Studies Council, MacMillan Center and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
Auditorium
Sunday, April 7
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive The Hustler, Director Robert Rossen (USA, 1961) 134 min.
(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, April 7
Singularity: a film installation, Director Albert Serra
(2015) 12 hours
Part 1 (9 am to noon), Part 2 (noon to 3 pm), Part 3 (4 to 7 pm), Part 4 (7 to 10 pm) 3:30 pm discussion with Oksana Chefranova (Yale) and Jade de Cock de Rameyen (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
(Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
9 am to 10 pm, Loria 250
Wednesday, April 10
Women of the Gulag, Director Marianna Yarovskaya
(Russia, 2018)
Followed by a post-screening discussion with the director
(Program in Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, European Studies Council at the MacMillan Center, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, April 11
The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Annual Lecture
Hazel Carby, Yale University “Difficult Times”
(African American Studies, Daniel and Joanna S. Rose, and Whitney Humanities Center)
5 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, April 11–Sunday, April 14
The 14th Annual Yale Festival of Italian Cinema
(Italian Study Center; FAS Dean’s Office; Office of New Haven and State Affairs; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:30 pm Auditorium
Tuesday, April 16
Love and War in Yemen: A Film Screening
10 Days Before the Wedding, Director Amr Gamal
(Yemen, 2018) 120 min
Followed by a Q&A with the director
(Council on Middle East Studies, Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, Middle Eastern and North African Student Organization, Students for Yemen, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
5 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, April 17
Little Vera, Director Vasili Pichul (Soviet Union, 1988) 110 min.
Introduced and followed by a discussion led by John MacKay
(Program in Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, European Studies Council at the MacMillan Center, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, April 18–Saturday, April 20
Yale Student Film Festival
Featuring short films selected from over 1,000 submissions, including Experimental Shorts, Narrative Shorts, Documentary Shorts, and Yale Senior Thesis Films
Also featuring: Filmmaking Masterclass with Giorgio Ferrero (April 18 at 4:30 pm room B-04)
Beautiful Things with Giorgio Ferrero (April 18 at 8 pm, Auditorium)
And An Evening with the New Negress Film Society (April 19 at 7 pm, Auditorium) (Yale Film Alliance, Yale College Dean’s Office, Dean’s Discretionary Fund for the Arts, Department of Italian Language and Literature, Film and Media Studies, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
Thursday, April 25
Bioethics Film Series
Collective Invention, Director Oh-Kwang Kwon
(South Korea, 2015) 92 min.
Introduced and followed by a discussion with Stephen Latham
(Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Friday, April 26
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive An Evening with Nick Doob
Featuring the newly preserved feature film Street Music (1979) and three newly preserved shorts, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Nick Doob
16mm shorts preserved by the Yale Film Study Center with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation
(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, April 27
Some Interviews on Personal Matters, Director Lana Gogoberidze
(Soviet Union, 1979) 95 min.
Introduced and followed by a discussion led by John MacKay
(Program in Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, European Studies Council at the MacMillan Center, and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, May 2
The First Four: Excerpts from Testimonies Recorded by the Holocaust Survivors Film Project on May 2, 1979
On May 2, 1979, four survivors gave testimony to Dr. Dori Laub and Laurel Vlock at Dr. Laub’s office on Howard Avenue in New Haven. It was the first taping of survivors on video by what would become the Holocaust Survivors Film Project — the predecessor to the Fortunoff Video Archive. This 40th anniversary event will feature remarks by Lawrence Langer, Emeritus Professor of English at Simmons College, and Joanne W. Rudof, Archivist Emeritus, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, and a poetry reading by Renee Hartman, followed by a screening of excerpts from the first four testimonies recorded in New Haven.
(Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies; Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism; Yale’s Judaic Studies Program; Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale; Sobotka Yom HaShoah Endowment Fund; Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium
Saturday, May 4
Democracy in Action: An Afternoon of Documentary Screenings
A Long Way from Home: The Untold Story of Baseball’s Desegregation, Director Caspar Gonzalez
(USA, 2018) 41 min.
By the Dawn’s Early Light: Chris Jackson’s Journey to Islam, Director Zareena Grewal
(USA, 2017) 53 min.
The Situation, Director John Lucas (USA, date) 8 min.
Followed by a talk back discussion with the directors and Matthew Jacobson, American Studies
(320 York Humanities and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)4 pm, Auditorium
Wednesday, May 15
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive Waiting for Guffman, Director Christopher Guest (USA, 1996) 84 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)
7 pm, Auditorium
Thursday, May 30–Sunday, June 9
NHDocs
The Fifth Annual New Haven Documentary Film Festival Auditorium
Wednesday, June 26
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Emma, Director Douglas McGrath
(UK, 1996) 120 min
(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
Wednesday, July 17
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive Speed Racer, Director Lana Wachowski
(USA, 2008) 135 min
(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