27th Annual Science Fiction Marathon
Katherine Lai
Sat Jan 22, 07pm-07:00am, 26-100
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Fee: 6.00 for admission
Featuring special shorts, fun activities, extra refreshments, and a variety of sci-fi films. Admission at 7pm is $6, and drops to $3 after midnight.
7:00pm Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
8:30pm Pizza is ordered
9:00pm Shaun of the Dead
11:30pm Pizza arrives
12:00am Code 46
2:00am Star Trek: The Trouble With Tribbles
3:00am Spaceballs
3:00am Pitch Black
See URL for more details.
Web: http://lsc.mit.edu/schedule/current/desc-marathon.shtml
Contact: Katherine Lai, 26-100
Sponsor: LSC
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Garden State (Film)
Katherine Lai
Thu Jan 13, 08-10:00pm, 26-100
Fri Jan 14, 07-09:00pm, 26-100
Mon Jan 17, 08-10:00pm, 26-100
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Fee: 3.00 for admission ticket price
See URL for film description.
Web: http://lsc.mit.edu/schedule/current/desc-gardenstate.shtml
Contact: Katherine Lai, 26-100, k_lai@mit.edu
Sponsor: LSC
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Anime Club Showing
MIT Anime Club
Fri Jan 7, 14, 21, 28, 07-11:45pm, 6-120
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: A taste for the unusual.
Come see some of the finest animation in the world as the MIT Anime Club samples the products of Japan's anime studios. See the club's web-site for details about what we'll be showing.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/anime/www
Contact: MIT Anime Club, 6-120, anime-inquiry@mit.edu
Sponsor: Anime Club
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Becoming a Giant in College Radio (Learn To Be a DJ)
Generoso Fierro
Sun Jan 16, Sun Jan 30, 06-07:00pm, 50-030
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Jan-2005
Limited to 15 participants.
Single session event
Get to know your campus radio station (WMBR)! 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 freshly baked cookies and milk will be provided.
Contact: Generoso Fierro, 13-2090, x3-5965, generoso@mit.edu
Sponsor: WMBR Radio
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Biology Movies Gone Bad
Melissa Kosinski-Collins & Julia Khodor
Thu Jan 6, 13, 20, 05:30-08:00pm, 68-181
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: none
Did you ever watch a movie that made the biology nerd inside you cringe? Come watch several of the biggest biology blunders with a group of fellow biologists! For each movie, we will have a SHORT discussion about the topic presented in the movie followed by snacks and movie viewing. Movies are TBA but possibly include "X-Men", "Jurassic Park", and "Deep Blue Sea". Movie requests are welcome.
Contact: Melissa Kosinski-Collins, 68-139, x3-4956, kosinski@mit.edu
Sponsor: Biology
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Chicks Make Flicks: Screening of Monkey Dance and Discussion with Julie Mallozzi
Emily Meghan Morrow Howe, Women in Film and Video/New England
Tue Jan 11, 07-09:00pm, 32-124
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Join us for a screening of the film Monkey Dance followed by a discussion with the film's director Julie Mallozzi. See the URL below for more information on the film.
Co-Sponsored by the MIT Program in Women's Studies, Women in Film and Video/New England, McCormick Hall (MIT), Women's Independent Living Group (MIT), Comparative Media Studies (MIT).
Screenings are free.
Web: http://www.juliemallozzi.com/monkey.html
Contact: MIT Women's Studies, x3-8844, womens-studies@mit.edu
Sponsor: Womens Studies
Cosponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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Filmmaking Workshop
Alice Cox
Tue-Thu, Jan 4-6, 11-13, 18-20, 25-27, 07-10:00pm, TBD - stay tuned
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 29-Dec-2004
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Bring in a list of project ideas on the first day of class.
This hands on intensive filmmaking workshop aims to introduce students to the vast array of film genres (from narrative to experimental and documentary)in addition to the filmmaking process and the local Boston film community. Activities/topics covered include presentation of work and guided discussions by guest filmmakers, information on local film/video resources and organizations, and field trips to independent film venues. Students will also be guided through the full process of filmmaking from development of an original concept to planning a shoot, and directing and editing a piece running 1–5 minutes in length in the film/video format of their choice.
Contact: Alice Cox, 9-213, x3-5472, acox@mit.edu
Sponsor: Alice J Cox, 9-213, 617 253-5472, acox@mit.edu
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LineStorm Animation Exploration
Pell Osborn
Tue Jan 18, Thu Jan 20, Tue Jan 25, 02-03:30pm, 56-167
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Be a worthy contributor to Animation, the world's newest artform! We'll review some short, world-famous animations, then approach the artform the old-fashioned way, creating hand-drawn artwork on lightboxes, scanning it into the computer for looping, sound-sync and final edit. We'll use dynamic, energetic typography to illustrate one or two essential maxims (in ten words or less, yet to be chosen!), then add color and organic line to give them an unforgettable visual boost! Our finished piece, 2 to 3 minutes long, will screen at the Made-at-MIT Spectacular in May. Limit: 12. Presented by Pell Osborn, award-winning animator, designer, and teacher.
Contact: Susan Stapleton, 14N-207, x3-5038, susanj@mit.edu
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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MIT Cable Television Facilities Open House
Jonathan Ward, Randy Winchester
Wed Jan 12, 02-03:00pm, 9-058
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 8 participants.
Single session event
Ever wonder how a cable television system operates? The staff at MIT Cable Television are offering an inside look at the Technical Operations Center (TOC) of the campus television system. See the equipment we use to generate and broadcast cable channels and local programming on campus.
Go to URL to register.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/mitcable
Contact: Jonathan Ward, 9-058, (617) 253-9383, jward@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Academic Media Production Services
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MIT Film & Video Retrospective: Then and Now
Craig Milanesi MIT Video Productions & Digital Technologies
Wed Jan 26, 01-04:00pm, Bush Room, Bldg 10, off Infinite Corridor
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Join us for a look at life at MIT through the decades with films and videos from the MIT Museum and MIT Video Productions archives.We'll start with an historical retrospective followed by several vintage documentaries. Meet the 1926 frat house gang of Phi Beta Epsilon. Revisit the 50s with the Social Beaver. See profiles of Doc Edgerton and Doc Draper, as well as the Academy Award winning short "Quicker than a Wink," featuring Doc Edgerton. Program also includes videos produced for the MIT News Office, MIT Museum and various academic departments. For a schedule and show times, go to:
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/spotlight/mvpdt-iap.html
Contact: Joanne Flood, 9-415, (617) 253-5475, jflood@mit.edu
Sponsor: Academic Media Production Services
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MythTV
Randy Winchester
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 45 participants.
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: A PC and TV tuner card are required to build a MythTV box.
MythTV is an open-source personal video recorder (PVR) that runs under Linux. The name MythTV comes from the concept of a mythical convergence box — a networked set-top box that displays many types of multimedia assets on an ordinary television. If you are familiar with TiVo, you already know about basic PVR features. MythTV adds support for HDTV, DVD-RW drives, playback of music files and photo albums, and video editing.
Go to http://web.mit.edu/mitcable to register.
Contact: Randy Winchester, 9-050, (617) 253-7431, randy@mit.edu
Sponsor: Academic Media Production Services
MythTV demonstration
Randy Winchester
This session demonstrates the basic functions of MythTV — viewing live television, using the integrated program guide and database to schedule recordings, editing recordings, and using the integrated web server and remote client.
Go to http://web.mit.edu/mitcable to register.
Tue Jan 11, 02-03:00pm, 9-057
MythTV: Build your own personal video recorder
Randy Winchester
This session is a Q & A for those who are building or have built a MythTV box. We will share information and pointers on getting the system up and running and tweaking it for the best performance.
Go to http://web.mit.edu/mitcable to register.
Tue Jan 18, 02-03:00pm, 9-057
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Screenwriting Workshop
Ayida Mthembu, Aaron Tan
Tue, Thu, Jan 11, 13, 18, 20, 25, 27, 05:30-07:30pm, 2-151
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 20 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
For the first time in MIT history, we will be offering students an opportunity to develop their own screenplay. This hands on introductory workshop will offer discussions and interaction with other student screenwriters to develop and nurture ideas. Learn the step-by-step process of screenwriting. Through a series of exercises, the students in the workshop will explore the fundamentals of dramatic and documentary screenwriting. Additionally, the workshop will provide an overview of the film business (both commercial and independent) and, if possible, will provide the class with an opportunity to meet a working film maker.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/aarontan/www/screenwriting/
Contact: Aaron Tan, 37-142, x8-5794, aarontan@mit.edu
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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Selections from Middle Eastern Cinema
Charles Wilkins
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: None
This film series presents three dark comedies from Turkish, Kurdish-Iranian, and Palestinian perspectives. These films depict the human dramas played out along national borders and suggest the contested nature of national identities. Screenings will be followed by discussion led by member of the History Faculty.
Contact: Charles Wilkins, E51-293, 253-4456, cwilkins@mit.edu
Sponsor: History
Propaganda
Charles Wilkins
Satirizing Turkish state borderland policies in the 1940s, Propaganda (2000) offers commentary on identity politics in present-day Turkey.
Mon Jan 17, 07-10:00pm, Room 2-131
Marooned in Iraq
Charles Wilkins
Directed by an Iranian of Kurdish ethnicity, Marooned in Iraq (2002) follows the adventures of a musical Kurdish family during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988).
Tue Jan 18, 07-10:00pm, Room 2-131
Divine Intervention
Charles Wilkins
Divine Intervention (2002) is a Palestinian-directed absurdist comedy on the everyday lives of Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank in the post-Oslo Accords era.
Wed Jan 19, 07-10:00pm, Room 2-131
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South African Angus Gibson Documentary/TV Marathon
Dora Kelle
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Angus Gibson has never been content to simply follow the conventions of film and television industries around him. Through his works he has explored, questioned, and challenged cultural and racial taboos of South Africa in order to carve out space for television and films that reflect the peoples of his native country.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/arts/special_programs/air/gibson_iap.html
Contact: Dora Kelle, E15-205, x3-8089, dora@mit.edu
Sponsor: Office of the Arts
7 Up in South Africa, 14 Up in South Africa, and Mandela, Son of Africa, Father of a Nation,
Dora Kelle
7 Up and 14 Up in South Africa consist of interviews with 7 year-olds (revisited at 14) throughout the nation.
Oscar-nominated documentary, Mandela, Son of Africa, Father of a Nation, chronicles the life of Africa’s greatest freedom fighter, Nelson Mandela.
For more info and times: http://web.mit.edu/arts/special_programs/air/gibson_iap.html
Sun Jan 9, 02-08:00pm, 4-231
Yizo Yizo I
Dora Kelle
Yizo Yizo began in 1999 as a controversial and wildly popular TV drama about an all-black South African ghetto high school. For more info and times: http://web.mit.edu/arts/special_programs/air/gibson_iap.html
Sun Jan 16, 02-08:30pm, 4-231
Yizo Yizo II
Dora Kelle
Yizo Yizo II continues many of the themes from the first season of Yizo Yizo and deals with the school trying to rebuild and make the best of its resources. For more info and times: http://web.mit.edu/arts/special_programs/air/gibson_iap.html
Fri Jan 21, 07-10:00pm, 4-231
Yizo Yizo II (continued)
Dora Kelle
Yizo Yizo II continues many of the themes from the first season of Yizo Yizo and deals with the school trying to rebuild and make the best of its resources. For more info and times: http://web.mit.edu/arts/special_programs/air/gibson_iap.html
Sat Jan 22, 02-07:00pm, 4-231
Yizo Yizo II (continued)
Dora Kelle
Yizo Yizo II continues many of the themes from the first season of Yizo Yizo and deals with the school trying to rebuild and make the best of its resources. For more info and times: http://web.mit.edu/arts/special_programs/air/gibson_iap.html
Sun Jan 23, 02-07:00pm, 4-231
Yizo Yizo III
Dora Kelle
Yizo Yizo, Program III explores the lives of students as they leave their high school and go out into the world. For more info and times: http://web.mit.edu/arts/special_programs/air/gibson_iap.html
Fri Jan 28, 07-10:00pm, 4-231
Yizo Yizo III (continued)
Dora Kelle
Yizo Yizo, Program III explores the lives of students as they leave their high school and go out into the world. For more info and times: http://web.mit.edu/arts/special_programs/air/gibson_iap.html
Sat Jan 29, 02-07:00pm, 4-231
Yizo Yizo III (continued)
Dora Kelle
Yizo Yizo, Program III explores the lives of students as they leave their high school and go out into the world. For more info and times: http://web.mit.edu/arts/special_programs/air/gibson_iap.html
Sun Jan 30, 02-07:00pm, 4-231
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Storytelling and Games in the Digital Age
Prof. Henry Jenkins, Sande Scoredos and Thomas Hershey, Sony Pictures Imageworks
Mon Jan 24 thru Fri Jan 28, 09am-05:00pm, 2-105
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Jan-2005
Limited to 40 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: None
Student teams develop story concepts for various media, including motion picture visual effects and computer games. Sponsored by MIT Comparative Media Studies (CMS) and Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI), this non-technical activity focuses on the theoretical, historical, cultural, social, and aesthetic elements of interactive narrative and game structures. Morning lectures explore linear and non-linear storytelling across media, audio-visual elements, game theory, and techniques to increase the depth of interactive console games and enhance storytelling. Afternoons run as workshops where participants collaborate in teams to design interactive story scenarios to be presented during a final session on Friday afternoon.
Contact: Susan Stapleton, 14N-207, x3-5038, susanj@mit.edu
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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