"The Lorax"
Toh Ne Win, Jessica Lee, Dan Feldman, Corrina Chase
Mon Jan 21, 07-10:00pm, 1-246
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: None! Just come join us and have fun :)
In this animated classic, Dr. Seuss teaches children about the importance of conservation. Join us to watch this SAVE IAP tradition, or to learn more about environmentalism on campus. We'll probably have another movie and snacks too!
Web: http://web.mit.edu/save
Contact: Toh Ne Win, Random Hall, x5-8560, tohn@mit.edu
Sponsor: SAVE
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Adapting Linear Storytelling in an Interactive Age
Prof. Henry Jenkins, with Sande Scoredos, Thomas Hershey, and George Suhayd of Sony Pictures Imageworks
Mon Jan 21 thru Fri Jan 25, 09am-05:00pm, 56-114
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 11-Jan-2002
Limited to 40 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: None
Join us for a week of lectures and workshops where student teams will consider and develop story concepts for emerging media, including motion picture visual effects and computer games. Sponsored by the Program in Comparative Media Studies (CMS) and Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI), this is a non-technical activity that will focus on the theoretical, historical, cultural, social, and aesthetic elements of narrative structures. Morning sessions will include lectures about linear and non-linear storytelling across media, as well as presentations on game theory, and interactive techniques to increase the depth of interactive console games and enhance storytelling. Afternoons will be coordinated in workshop format where participants will work in teams to design an interactive story scenario to be presented during a final session on Friday afternoon. Special evening presentations include a screening of SIGGRAPH 2001 Electronic Theater and a behind-the-scenes visual effects discussion of work from HARRY POTTER and other SPI projects. Participants will interact with faculty and graduate students from Comparative Media Studies, as well as with professionals from Sony Pictures Imageworks and game developers. Internship opportunities with participant companies will be also be discussed.
Contact: Alex Chisholm, 14N-207, x3-6447, alex@mit.edu
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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An Evening of Yiddish Film: "Yiddle with His Fiddle"
Alan Brody, Gidon van Emden
Tue Jan 15, 07-09:00pm, 4-237
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
"Yiddle with His Fiddle" is a popular 1936 Yiddish comedy starring Molly Picon. A man and his daughter become travelling musicians. She disguises herself as a boy, but when they join with "another" father-son duo, music, comedy and romance ensues. Yiddish with English subtitles. Assoc. Provost Alan Brody will introduce the film.
Contact: Gidon van Emden, W11, x3-2982, gidon@mit.edu
Sponsor: Hillel
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Aspects of Mildred Pierce
William Uricchio, Edward Turk
Mon Jan 28, 07-10:00pm, 2-105
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
A screening of the film noir classic "Mildred Pierce," preceded by short talks. Prof. William Uricchio will discuss the evolution from book (1941) to movie (1945). Prof. Edward Turk will speak on Joan Crawford and queer spectatorship. Screening will be followed by discussion and, of course, pie. Though not required, reading the novel Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain is recommended.
Contact: Chris Pomiecko, 14N-207A, x3-3599, cpomieko@mit.edu
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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Becoming a Giant in College Radio (Learn To Be a DJ)
Generoso Fierro
Mon Jan 7, 14, Mon Jan 28, 06-07:30pm, 50-030
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 15-Dec-2001
Limited to 10 participants.
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Get to know your campus radio station (WMBR)! Master DJ Generoso walks you through various aspects of life at a radio station, including the many possible ways to screw up on the air and still sound entertaining! WMBR membership information as well as cookies and milk will be provided.
Contact: Generoso Fierro, 13-2090, x3-5965, bovineska@hotmail.com
Sponsor: WMBR Radio
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Chinese Kung-Fu Movie Nights
Victor Hsu
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Watch the great masters of the Chinese martial arts (Jet Li, Jackie Chan, etc.) in action on screen. There will be 2-3 sessions of kung-fu movie showings during the course of IAP. Setting is informal. Please contact us if interested.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/csc/www/iap.htm
Contact: Joyce Lo, 508, x5-8588, joycelo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Chinese Students Club
"Drunken Master," "Fist of Legend," "New Legend of Shaolin"
Victor Hsu
Tue Jan 15, 07:30-10:30pm, 1-132
"Once Upon A Time in China," "Gen X Cops," "Gen Y Cops"
Victor Hsu
Tue Jan 22, 07:30-10:30pm, 1-132
"Iron Monkey," "Shaolin Soccer"
Victor Hsu
Tue Jan 29, 07:30-10:30pm, 1-132
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Deutsches Haus Film Festival
Oskar Bruening
Thu Jan 10, 17, 24, 31, 08pm-12:00am, New House 6, 2nd Floor lounge
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
The MIT German House presents its annual Film Festival. We will be showing movies every Thursday, two movies a night. We have recent, less known movies directly brought from Germany (no subtitles), as well as, well-known titles like "Run Lola Run". Join us for a some hours of fun, relaxing and German movies. Munchies will be provided.
Web: http://bruno.mit.edu/filmfestival/
Contact: Oskar Bruening, 6-301, x5-7660, ernst@mit.edu
Sponsor: German House
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EVOLUTION: Where are We from and Where are we Going?
Penny Chisholm, Martin Polz
Tue Jan 22 thru Fri Jan 25, 02:30-05:30pm, 48-316
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Evolution is one of the the most powerful ideas emerging from science, and one of the most misunderstood. Come see the highly acclaimed PBS (WGBH/NOVA) series on evolution, which first aired in October 2001. It is an 8 hour series (to be shown in 4, 2hr blocks, 1hr discussion after viewing) covering all dimensions of this profound phenomenon: Darwin's life and revolutionary theory; the origins of diversity and the emergence of humans; extinctions - past and present. What world will we leave to our descendants?; The evolutionary arms race and human health; The origins of sex; The emergence of the modern human mind and its consequences; The struggle between science and religion; ....and much more.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/chisholm/www/
Contact: Penny Chisholm, 48-425, x3-1771, chisholm@mit.edu
Sponsor: Biology
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Errol Morris Restrospective
Carl Steinbach
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Web: http://web.mit.edu/cws/www/morris.html
Contact: Carl Steinbach, 4-237, cws@mit.edu
Sponsor: Carl W Steinbach, EAST CAMPUS, GOOD, 617 225-6587, cws@mit.edu
Gates of Heaven (1978, 85 min)
Carl Steinbach
"Gates of Heaven" follows the stories behind two pet cemetaries in California during the 1970s.
Mon Jan 7, 07:30-10:00pm, 4-237
Vernon, Florida (1981, 72 min)
Carl Steinbach
Originally titled "Nub City", about the inhabitants of a Florida small town who lop off their limbs for insurance money, the film was retooled and renamed when Morris' subjects threatened to murder him.
Tue Jan 8, 07:30-10:00pm, 4-237
The Thin Blue Line (1988, 103 min)
Carl Steinbach
"The Thin Blue Line" is credited with overturning the conviction of Randall Dale Adams for the murder of Dallas police officer Robert Wood, a crime for which Adams was to be executed.
Mon Jan 14, 07:30-10:00pm, 4-237
A Brief History of Time (1992, 80 min)
Carl Steinbach
A film adaptation of Stephen Hawking's book about the origins of the Universe. Morris has woven together graphics, interview and archival material in a story about both Hawking's life and science.
Mon Jan 21, 07:30-10:00pm, 4-237
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997, 80 min)
Carl Steinbach
See webpage for description.
Tue Jan 22, 07:30-10:00pm, 4-237
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999, 91 min)
Carl Steinbach
See webpage for description.
Mon Jan 28, 07:30-10:00pm, 4-237
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch
MIT Lecture Series Committee
Fri Feb 1, 08-10:00pm, 26-100
Sat Feb 2, 07-09:00pm, 26-100, 2nd show at 10pm
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Web: http://lsc.mit.edu
Contact: MIT Lecture Series Committee, W20-469, 258-8881
Sponsor: Lecture Series Committee
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Humanity, Technology, and Reality in Serial Experiments Lain and Key the Metal Idol
Ray Vichot, Sean Leanord
Mon-Fri, Jan 22-25, 28-1, 05-07:15pm, 4-370
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
We wil be showing the entirety of two anime series: Key the Metal Idol and Serial Experiments Lain. Both series deal with the meaning of humanity and identity and the idea of a relative reality. The main focus of this presentation is to show and then discuss the themes and ideas presented by both series.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/rayv/www/lain-key.html
Contact: Ray Vichot, rayv@mit.edu
Sponsor: Anime Club
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LSC Science Fiction Marathon
MIT Lecture Series Committee
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
X-Men
Galaxy Quest
Gattaca
Tron
Total Recall...plus shorts. Film times TBA. See http://lsc.mit.edu for more information.
Web: http://lsc.mit.edu
Contact: MIT Lecture Series Committee, W20-469, 258-8881
Sponsor: Lecture Series Committee
MIT Lecture Series Committee
Sat Jan 26, 07pm-05:00am, 26-100
MIT Lecture Series Committee
Replay of X-Men and Gattaca
Sun Jan 27, 07pm-12:00am, 26-100
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MIT Anime Club Showings
Yin Chen, Sean Leonard
Fri Jan 11, 18, 25, 1, 07pm-12:00am, 6-120
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
If you've never seen Japanese Animation before, or even if you're a die-hard veteran, you won't want to miss our showings this IAP! We will be screening the best cutting-edge anime hot from Japan. Even if you're new to anime, come watch and see what this growing new phenomenon is all about. Check our webpage for complete scheduling information. Showings are free and open to the public.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/anime/www/
Contact: MIT Anime Club, anime-request@mit.edu
Sponsor: Anime Club
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MITV/Student Cable Group Training Sessions
Rachel Leventhal, Justin Kent, Joel Rosenberg
Schedule: TBD
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
MITV wants more students shooting, editing, and broadcasting television projects, so we're going to be running classes on how to do all of them. There will be 3 classes on: how to shoot video using a camera; how to edit video using iMovie and Final Cut Pro; and how to broadcast shows on MITV and over the Web.
And we'll repeat these three classes every week of IAP! Times and places will be announced in the online IAP guide and on our Web site.
Web: http://mitv.mit.edu
Contact: Justin Kent, jkent@mit.edu
Sponsor: MITV/MIT Student Cable Group
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Making Web-based Movies: Intro to Digital Video, iMovie, and Premiere
Katie Livingston Vale
Tue Jan 15, 02-04:00pm, 26-139
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 15 participants.
Single session event
In this hands-on two-hour session, we’ll learn how to
operate a few different consumer-level digital camcorders; capture analog video from a VHS tape; edit digital video using iMovie and Premiere; make titles, transitions, and special effects; save movies for playback on the Web.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/emcc/iap/
Contact: Katie Livingston Vale, 9-250, katiel@mit.edu
Sponsor: Educational Media Creation Center
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Martian Successor Nadesico Anime Series
Philip Tan, Sean Leonard
Mon-Fri, Jan 7-11, 14-18, 05-06:30pm, 2-105
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Love! War! Giant Robots! A space battle cruiser confronts the Jovian threat with anime-obsessed pilots, a loopy crew, breathless comedy and a surprisingly dramatic plot. Find out why Animage readers voted this 26-episode anime series "Best Anime Show of All Time". Three episodes each weekday with discussion. Japanese dialogue with English subtitles.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/philip/www/nadesico/
Contact: Philip Tan, 14N-217, philip@mit.edu
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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Mel Brooks Movie Marathon
Lisa Katz, Andrew Goldsweig
Sat Jan 26, 07pm-01:00am, 4-237
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: Must love silly movies!
A Marathon of Mel! Enjoy these classically hilarious Mel Brooks movies: "Space Balls," "Blazing Saddles," and "History of the World-Part 1," in this free all-night showing.
Contact: Lisa Katz, x3-2982, lisaka@mit.edu
Sponsor: Hillel
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Mobile Storymaking Workshop
Glorianna Davenport, Pengkai Pan, David Crow, Christina Chen and Carly M Kastner
Mon Jan 7, Tue Jan 8, Mon Jan 14, Tue Jan 15, 01-04:00pm, E15-363, Garden
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 03-Jan-2002
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Do you want to make and share movies for wireless PDAs? Would you like to participate in designing an MIT-based mobile movie game that only can be played at MIT? If you are interested in writing, acting, directing, and editing this new entertainment experience, please join us a four-day workshop sponsored by the Interactive Cinema Group at the MIT Media Lab. In the first two days, we will introduce the concept, a prototype and a set of tools for making/sharing location-aware video stories over 802.11b wireless network. We will brainstorm the design for two or more potential mobile stories. During the follow week, we will produce one or more team-developed concepts. Productions will take place. On the final day, we will premier these prototypes and discuss future plans. The Interactive Cinema group will sponsor all necessary equipments for DV-based shooting and editing. A few filmmakers will join us to share their experiences and skills.
Contact: Pengkai Pan, E15-351, x3-3197, ppk@media.mit.edu
Sponsor: Media Arts & Sciences
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
MIT Lecture Series Committee
Fri Jan 11, 08-10:00pm, 26-100
Sat Jan 12, 07-09:00pm, 26-100, 2nd Showing at 10pm
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Web: http://lsc.mit.edu
Contact: MIT Lecture Series Committee, W20-469, 258-8881
Sponsor: Lecture Series Committee
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Political Movie Marathon
Aaron Strauss
Thu Jan 17, 07pm-01:00am, 54-100
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Come munch on popcorn, chips, and other goodies as you watch the 1992 election documentary "War Room" (7pm), followed by the hilarious Matthew Broderick comedy "Election" (9pm), and finally the Rob Reiner/Aaron Sorkin political drama "The American President" (11pm).
Non-partisan event sponsored by the College Democrats.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/mit-cds/iap2002.html
Contact: Aaron Strauss, EC WC203, x5-6248, aaronbs@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT College Democrats
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Science in the Cinema
Host: Professor Jonathan King
Wed Jan 16, 05-08:00pm, 4-231
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
BUSA invites you to come watch "The 6th Day," a futuristic action thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, that addresses the topic of cloning. Professor Jonathan King will then lead a discussion about the ethical/scientific issues raised in the movie and their societal implications.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/busa/www/
Contact: Irene J. Lo, x5-7182, ijlo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Biology Undergraduate Students Association
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Screening through Italy: A Cinematic Voyage in Search of Il Bel Paese
Stefano Falconi
Tue Jan 8, 15, 22, 29, 07-09:00pm, 4-364
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Course seeks to explore the complexity and evolution of modern Italy through films, Italian and otherwise, from the immediate postwar period to the present day. We will search for the contemporary soul of Italy through the greatness, weakness, priorities, and foibles of its people, as depicted in the social and political commentary of the movies. We shall also explore computer visuals and contemporary Italian websites. Organized by the MIT Italy Program.
Contact: Stefano Falconi, E19-666A, 258-5770, sfalconi@mit.edu
Sponsor: Center for International Studies
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Slackers (Free Sneak Preview)
MIT Lecture Series Committee
Tue Jan 29, 08-10:00pm, 26-100
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Web: http://lsc.mit.edu
Contact: MIT Lecture Series Committee, W20-469, 258-8881
Sponsor: Lecture Series Committee
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Startup.com
MIT Lecture Series Committee
Fri Jan 18, 08-10:00pm, 26-100
Sat Jan 19, 07-09:00pm, 26-100, 2nd show at 10pm
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Web: http://lsc.mit.edu
Contact: MIT Lecture Series Committee, W20-469, 258-8881
Sponsor: Lecture Series Committee
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Strange Cinema : The Anti-Hollywood Culture of Exploitation and Undress
Douglas Purdy
Thu Jan 10, 17, 24, 31, 07-11:00pm, 2-105
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
This film series will serve as a celebration of the unorthodox, the surreal, and the camp-driven. While Hollywood sticks to its broad sense of genre classification, the Midnight film breaks it down with loose labels bordering on fetish. Nazi zombies, LSD psycopaths with killer cleavage, kung-fu drunkards, flesh-eating mannequins, and deranged mystics in search of a holy mountain.
Warning: there will be exposed skin, buckets of gore, shoddy camerawork, irreligious attacks, surreal psycopaths, and an absence of bras or scripts. If this is not your dish, then please don’t eat off it.
Contact: Douglas Purdy, 14N-428, x3-2873, dgpurdy@mit.edu
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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The Cinematic Philosophy of Orson Welles
Irving Singer
Fri Jan 18, 02-04:00pm, 1-390, (note room change)
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Lecture on the cinematic philosophy of Orson Welles, to be followed by a screening of Welles' rarely-seen film "The Immortal Story."
Contact: Irving Singer, E39-351, x3-2649, bis@mit.edu
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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Traveling the Silk Road Through China and Central Asia
Peter C. Perdue
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: None
The ancient Silk Road ran West from China through Central Asia to Europe, providing a channel of contact for merchants, missionaries, nomads, camels, and travellers. We will watch three episodes from a spectacular film series about the history of this exotic route, followed by discussion of the Silk Road's legacy today.
Contact: Peter C. Perdue, E51-291, x3-3064, pcperdue@mit.edu
Sponsor: History
A Thousand Kilometers Beyond the Yellow River; The Art Gallery in the Desert
Peter C. Perdue
Cross the Yellow River, gaze at the giant Buddha, enter secret caves. Tour 500 caves containing 3000 murals and statues dating from 366 AD to the 13th century, in the middle of the desert.
Wed Jan 9, 07-09:00pm, 1-246
Khotan: Oasis of Silk and Jade; A Heat Wave Called Turfan
Peter C. Perdue
See two oases renowned for valuable jade, central stopping places for merchant caravans. Turfan is hotter and lower than Death Valley, with delicious grapes and ruined ghost towns.
Wed Jan 23, 07-09:00pm, 1-246
Where Horses Fly like Wind: The Kazakhs; Journey Into Music
Peter C. Perdue
Cross the Tianshan mountains to the Kazakh steppe, viewing lofty snowclad peaks and swift nomad riders.
Wed Jan 30, 07-09:00pm, 1-246
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You Were On ZOOM! What Happened?
Thomas White
Thu Jan 24, 07-08:30pm, 1-390
Single session event
CAES/AMPS/MVP videographer Tom White was an original cast member of Zoom from the initial pilot till the end of the first season when the show won an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Children's Programming".The PBS show Zoom (72-79) was one of the first children's shows hosted entirely by kids and the first to successfully create a genuine significant interaction with the home home audience. The series was second only to "Masterpiece Theater"in its power to attract public-broadcasting viewers. So put on your bell-bottoms and take a stroll to the Seventies as we check out rare video footage from the show with someone who was there from the start. Mr. White has been interviewed in Details magazine, NPR's This American Life and The David Brudnoy show. He is featured in the new book "Zoomers Revisited: Where are they Now?" His post-Zoom career includes playing on the bill with Sting, Wendy O.Williams, GG Allin and Captain Kangaroo.
Contact: Tom White, 9-425, x3-7414, tpwhite@mit.edu
Sponsor: Center for Advanced Educational Services
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talkTV
Erik Blankinship, Brian Smith
Wed Jan 9, 16, 23, 07-09:00pm, E15-309
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 01-Jan-2002
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: 2 weeks b4: vhs or dvd of tv show/movie
Do you like TV and movies? Find yourself quoting "The Simpsons," "Friends," or other shows all the time? If so, then you need talkTV, new software from the Media Lab that lets you chat (using AOL IM) using the voices of characters taken from your favorite TV shows. Come and learn how to use talkTV and play around with your own favorite TV shows. This software will be used in this IAP class and only with other participants of this class.
Web: http://www.media.mit.edu/~erikb/projects/iap2002/talkTV.html
Contact: Erik Blankinship, 309, x3-8142, jedierikb@media.mit.edu
Sponsor: Erik J Blankinship, E15-311, 617 253-8142, erikjb@mit.edu
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