Spring 2020

Friday, January 24
Henry James on Film
An Evening of Experimental Films Inspired by the Work of Henry James Henry James’ Memories of Old New York, Director Charles Boultenhouse (USA, 1958) 9 min.
What Maisie Knew, Director Babette Mangolte (USA, 1975) 58 min.
The Golden Bowl, or Repression, Director Chris Kraus (USA, 1988) 12 min.
Followed by a panel discussion with Marta Figlerowicz, Anna Shechtman, Katie Trumpener, and Ruth Yeazell
(18/19, Theory and Media Studies, and 20/21 Colloquia, Department of English; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
5 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, January 25
White Snake, Directors Amp Wong and Ji Zhao
(China, 2019, Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles) 99 min, DCP.
Introduced by Dihao Zhou, PhD candidate, East Asian Languages and Literatures (Council on East Asian Studies and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
6 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, January 26
Impact of the Atom Film Series
Godzilla, Director Ishirō Honda (Japan, 1954) 96 min. DCP
Introduced by Aaron Gerow, East Asian Languages and Literatures
(Department of Physics; Yale Wright Laboratory; Center for East Asian Studies; 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)
3 pm, Auditorium

Wednesday, January 29
Have You Seen My Movie?, Director Paul Anton Smith (UK/Canada, 2016) 136 min. DCP
(Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; Film and Media Studies Program; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7:00pm, Auditorium

Thursday, January 30
Democracy in America Film Series
Promised Land, Director, Gus Van Sant (USA, 2012) 106 min.
Talk back with Kathryn Dudley, Anthropology and American Studies
(320 York Humanities and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, February 9
Impact of the Atom Film Series
Dr. Strangelove, Director Stanley Kubrick (UK, USA, 1964) 95 min. 35mm.
(Department of Physics; Yale Wright Laboratory; Center for East Asian Studies; 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)
3 pm, Auditorium

Sunday, February 9
All About My Mother, Director Pedro Almodóvar
(Spain, 1999) 105 min. 35mm. print from the Yale Film Archive Introduced by members of the Yale Graduate Film Colloquium
(Yale Graduate Film Colloquium; Yale Film Study Center, courtesy of Paul L. Joskow; History of Art Department; The Dean’s Fund; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, February 13
The Cave, Director Feras Fayyad (Academy Award Nominee 2020 for best documentary)
(USA, 2019) 107 min.
Followed by a Q&A with the director and producer Sigrid Dyekjaer
(Film and Media Studies; National Geographic Documentary Films; Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration; Public Humanities at Yale; Yale Institute for Global Health; MacMillan Center Council on Middle Eastern Studies; Poynter Fellowship for Journalism; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
6 pm, Auditorium

Friday, February 28
Wild West Hebron, Director Nissim Mossek (Israel, 2013) 52 min.
Out, Directed by Alon Sahar (Israel, 2018) 27 min.
Followed by a discussion with the Alon Sahar and Margaret Olin
(Judaic Studies and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
2 pm, Auditorium
In conjunction with the WHC gallery exhibit “Can Rocks Feel Pain? The Bitter Landscapes of Palestine”

Friday, February 28
Weird Greek Wave: What’s So Weird About Contemporary Greek Cinema
Attenberg, Director Athina-Rachel Tsangari (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 pm, Auditorium

Saturday, February 29 and Sunday, March 1
Accidents and Contingencies
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)
Auditorium

Wednesday, March 4
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
The Beginnings of Bebop, Director Willie Ruff (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)
7 pm, Auditorium

Thursday, March 5
The Films and Videos of Richard Serra
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)
7 pm, Auditorium
All prints courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, NY / Anthology Film Archives, NY.

Rest of the semester cancelled due to COVID-19