29th Annual Science Fiction Marathon
Drew Reese
Sat Jan 27, 07pm-07:00am, 26-100
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Fee: 6.00 for admission
Featuring special shorts, fun activities, extra refreshments, and five feature-length sci-fi films:
Fantastic Planet
The Fifth Element
The Dark Crystal
Delicatessen
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Admission at 7pm is $6, and drops to $3 after midnight.
Web: http://lsc.mit.edu
Contact: Drew Reese, 26-100, x3-3791, lsc@mit.edu
Sponsor: LSC
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Birth of Nations and Partitions
Meriam Belli
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
In the period following World War II, new nations, nation-states, and political identities emerged from territorial partitions, which social consequences people are still struggling and living with today. This five-day film series presents three such cases of partitions that occurred between 1947 and 1949: India/Pakistan (1947), Israel/Palestine (1948), and West Germany/East Germany (1949).
Contact: Mabel Chin, E51-285, x3-4965, mchin@mit.edu
Sponsor: History
Cosponsor: Womens Studies
Partitioned Identities - Earth (Deepa Mehta, 1998)
Haimanti Roy
Based in Lahore of 1947, the film revolves around the lives of some of its subaltern citizens whose idyllic lives are fractured by the Partition. We see the absurdities of Partition through the eyes of an eight-year-old Parsi girl, Lenny. The film is based on the award-winning novel by Bapsi Sidhwa, Cracking India (Ice-Candyman).
Mon Jan 8, 07:30-10:30pm, 32-141
Partitioned Identities - Meghe Dhaka Tara (Cloud Capped Star)(Ritwick Ghatak, 1960)
Haimanti Roy
The film revolves around the predicaments faced by a Bengali family who tries to come to grips with their new status as refugees in the wake of the Partition in Bengal. Nita, the main character in the film clearly embodies both the socio-economic implications of the Partition as well as the gendered nature of the event itself.
Tue Jan 9, 07:30-10:30pm, 32-141
Crossing Borders - The Syrian Bride/Kala Ha-Surit (Israel, 2004)
Meriam Belli
1947-UN approved Palestine's partition. 1948-Jewish nationalists won independence of Israel. Borders created in 1948 & 1967 Arab-Israeli War resulted in Palestinian refuge problem & separation/alienation of people from one another. In The Syrian Bride-E. Riklis tells the story of a Druze-Israeli bride who leaves Israeli-occupied Golan Heights to marry a Syrian t.v. star, knowing crossing the border she can't return home.
Wed Jan 10, 07:30-10:30pm, 32-141
Crossing Borders - Rana's Wedding (Jerusalem, Another Day)
Meriam Belli
Hany Abu-Assad (Palestine, 2002). 90 minutes.
A romantic drama about a Palestinian girl who wants to get married with the man of her choice. She only has ten hours to find her boyfriend in an occupied and chaotic Jerusalem. When the abnormality of barriers and occupation becomes an everyday reality, love and marriage turn into fiction.
Thu Jan 11, 07:30-10:30pm, 32-141
Breaking the Wall - Good bye Lenin (Germany, 2003)
David Ciarlo
"East Germany"(GDR)est.1949 Soviet occupied zone/"West Germany" occupied by US/GB/FR. Germany reunified after popular protest movement leading to fall of Berlin Wall-1989 & free elections-1990. This film, a brilliant comedy:Christiane, socialist/supporter of GDP, falls into a coma on eve of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Upon wakening, Germany is reunited; her son protects her from the truth/creates an alternative reality.
Fri Jan 12, 07:30-10:30pm, 32-141
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Digital Video Post-Production Clinic (CLASS IS FULL)
Violeta Ivanova
Thu Jan 25, 03-05:00pm, 26-139, CLASS IS FULL
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 8 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: Permission of Instructor, familiarity with Mac computers
In this hands-on workshop, students will be introduced to fundamental techniques for editing video and sound, using software such as Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Compressor and DVD Studio Pro. This workshop is most appropriate for beginning filmmakers who want to improve their editting skills. Students should attend the New Media Center orientation, or have basic familiarity with Mac Athena prior to this workshop. Preference given to MIT students who are seriously interested in independent video production. To apply, e-mail instructor stating MIT status, previous video/sound editting experience (if any), filmmaking interests and motivation for attending the workshop.
Contact: Violeta Ivanova, N42-250K, x2-1383, violeta@mit.edu
Sponsor: Edgerton Center
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Digital Video Production Clinic (CLASS IS FULL)
Violeta Ivanova
Mon Jan 22, 03-05:00pm, 4-402, CLASS IS FULL
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 8 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: Permission of Instructor
In this hands-on workshop students will be introduced to fundamental techniques for taping good picture and sound using professional DV and HD camcorders, different types of microphones, studio lights, and other digital video and audio equipment. This workshop is most appropriate for beginner filmmakers who would like to improve their video and audio recording skills. Preference will be given to MIT students who are seriously interested in independent video production. To apply, e-mail instructor stating MIT status, previous video production experience (if any), filmmaking interests and motivation for attending workshop.
Contact: Violeta Ivanova, N42-250K, x2-1383, violeta@mit.edu
Sponsor: Edgerton Center
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Documentary Filmmaking: A One Day Survival Guide
Generoso Fierro
Thu Jan 11, 06-10:00pm
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 15-Jan-2007
Limited to 10 participants.
Single session event
Documentary filmmaker Generoso Fierro takes you through a one time class where you will learn the basics of shooting a documentary film on mini dv, editing and getting it seen. Learn how to navigate through the murky waters of copyright issues regarding still images and music to creating a release. Learn quick editing techniques, dvd mastering and an easy festival submission process so that your work can be seen. Held in 32-124.
Contact: Generoso Fierro, 14N-207, x3-5038, generoso@mit.edu
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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Environmental Film Festival
Lynette Cheah, Lindsey Germain, Christopher Sequeira, Ramya Rajagopalan
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: None
A series of films focusing on the environment, technology, and humanity. Each screening will be accompanied by discussion and free dinner. Synopses of the films and detailed screening schedule may be found at the URL below.
Web: http://sustainability.mit.edu/Environmental_Film_Festival
Contact: Lynette Cheah, x8-8291, lynette@mit.edu
Sponsor: Urban Studies and Planning
Cosponsor: Students for Global Sustainability
"Water Warriors"; "A Drop of Life"
Lynette Cheah, Lindsey Germain, Christopher Sequeira, Ramya Rajagopalan
Tue Jan 16, 06-09:00pm, 32-124
"Digital Dump"; "Exporting Harm"
Lynette Cheah, Lindsey Germain, Christopher Sequeira, Ramya Rajagopalan
Thu Jan 18, 06-09:00pm, 32-124
"Being Caribou"
Lynette Cheah, Lindsey Germain, Christopher Sequeira, Ramya Rajagopalan
Tue Jan 23, 06-09:00pm, 32-124
"Ecological Design"
Lynette Cheah, Lindsey Germain, Christopher Sequeira, Ramya Rajagopalan
Thu Jan 25, 06-09:00pm, 32-124
"Is God Green?"
Lynette Cheah, Lindsey Germain, Christopher Sequeira, Ramya Rajagopalan
Tue Jan 30, 06-09:00pm, 32-124
"Total Denial"
Lynette Cheah, Lindsey Germain, Christopher Sequeira, Ramya Rajagopalan
Thu Feb 1, 06-09:00pm, 32-124
"Dying to Breathe"; "Shipbreakers"
Lynette Cheah, Lindsey Germain, Christopher Sequeira, Ramya Rajagopalan
Fri Feb 2, 05-09:00pm, 32-124
"Maquila"; "Charcoal People"
Lynette Cheah, Lindsey Germain, Christopher Sequeira, Ramya Rajagopalan
Sat Feb 3, 05-09:00pm, 32-124
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MIT grad Marissa Acosta's film: "The Late Risers Club" (screening & discussion w/ director)
Emily Meghan Morrow Howe Women in Film and Video/New England
Thu Jan 11, 07-10:00pm, 6-120
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: interest in film, media, women's studies, gender issues, or
Chicks Make Flicks: film screenings & discussions with directors.
MIT grad Marissa Acosta's film tells the tale of "The Late Risers Club" a ragtag group of community radio disc jockeys who band together to create the first radio program in Boston to play punk rock on a daily basis. Vintage footage, photo montages and great interviews tell the story of the gestation period of a 25 year plus institution. As a bastion of the alternative, WMBR's Late Risers Club created the template that's now a staple of college radio programming .
Begun in 1977, the Late Risers Club program showcased punk and alternative music, and was a forerunner of what we now consider college radio, one of the few noncommercial stations in the country at that time championing unheard of bands, both local and national.
Contact: Emily Meghan Morrow Howe, 6-120, x3-8844, emmh@mit.edu
Sponsor: Womens Studies
Cosponsor: WMBR Radio
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Make Zombie Madness!
Kristina Drzaic
Tue Jan 23, 10am-06:00pm, 1-246
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 10-Jan-2007
Limited to 15 participants.
Single session event
Grab your friends, practice your growling and prepare yourself for making ZOMBIE MADNESS. Join award-winning independent filmmakers Kristina Drzaic and Neal Grigsby as they lead you through scripting, makeup, learn how to make special f/x gore and shooting your very own zombie movie. This will be a hands-on make-a-film-in-a-day class. Held in 1-246.
Remember,Zombies can be anyone.
Contact: Kristina Drzaic, 14N-207, x3-3599, kld@mit.edu
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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Pi, "Pi", Pie.
Rachel Shiffrin
Thu Jan 25, 07:30-10:00pm, W11 - Hillel Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Join MIT Hillel for an evening packed to the brim with pi. We’ll view the movie “Pi”, while simultaneously enjoying a dinner of pizza pies. To top the evening off we’ll have a Pi competition—the person who knows the most digits of Pi will be rewarded with a Pie!
Contact: Rachel Shiffrin, W11-040, x3-2982, shiffrin@mit.edu
Sponsor: Hillel
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Reading Film Sequences: Hitchcock, Shakespeare, Short Films
Peter Donaldson, Greg Dancer
Tue Jan 9, Thu Jan 11, Tue Jan 16, 12:30-02:00pm, 9-355c
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
In three sessions we will discuss a number of brief sequences in detail, using new tools developed in the iCampus XMAS project that allow students to define clips, attach comments and share material with the group. No technical experience required. Participants should plan on attending all three sessions.
Please visit website for full details of film selections.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/shakspere/iap2007
Contact: Belinda Yung, 9-355D, x3-3724, btyung@mit.edu
Sponsor: Literature
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Staging Revolutions on Film
Meriam Belli
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
This five-day film series presents cinematic portrayals of revolutionary characters and moments in world cinema, from the U.S. to China, including France, Iran, and Russia. This series figures as the foretaste of a new subject offered by the History Faculty in Fall 2007, entitled, "How to Stage a Revolution," which will explore the revolutionary pasts of the aforementioned countries.
Screenings will be presented by a member of the History Faculty.
Contact: Mabel Chin, E51-285, x3-9846, mchin@mit.edu
Sponsor: History
Staging Revolutions on Film - "Reds" (United States)
Prof. Christopher Capozzola
Warren Beatty, Reds (1981). 194 min.
This historical epic recounts the reel-life of radical journalist and political activist John Reed (1887-1920) and feminist Louise Bryant between 1915 and 1920. The story follows Reed and Bryant from the U.S. through Europe, and finally to Russia in 1917, as they witnessed the October Revolution. NOTE: This event starts at 6:00 pm.
Mon Jan 22, 06-10:30pm, 32-155
Staging Revolutions on Film - "Danton" (France)
Prof. Jeffrey Ravel
Andrzej Wajda, Danton (France/Poland, 1983). 136 min.
This film recreates the “Reign of Terror,” the brutal and divided political atmosphere of 1794 revolutionary France. After the suppression of the counter-revolution, Jacobinists, under the decisive lead of Maximilien Robespierre, controlled the Parisian political theater and “Madame Guillotine.”
Tue Jan 23, 07-10:00pm, 32-155
Staging Revolutions on Film - "The Battleship Potemkin" (Russia)
Prof. Elizabeth Wood
Sergei Eisenstein, The Battleship Potemkin (Russia, 1925). 74 min.
A cinematic and propagandistic chef-d’oeuvre, an ode to the communist Russian revolution, and an aesthetic revolution in itself, this film dramatically recounts the 1905 historical rebellion of a battleship crew against its Tsarist officers.
Wed Jan 24, 07-10:00pm, 32-155
Staging Revolutions on Film - "Morning Sun" (China)
Prof. Peter C. Perdue
Carma Hinton, Geremie Barmé, and Richard Gordon, Morning Sun (US, 2003). 120 min.
This award-winning documentary recreates the political, cultural, and ideological climate of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and is based on interviews conducted with men and women who were born around the time of the creation of the People’s Republic of China (1949) and who grew up during the Cultural Revolution.
Thu Jan 25, 07-10:00pm, 32-155
Staging Revolutions on Film - "Two Women/Do Zan" (Iran)
Meriam Belli
Tahmineh Milani, Two Women/Do Zan (Iran,1999)
This film, received as an event in Iran in 1999, tells a story of friendship between two female architecture students in Tehran in the early, politically agitated years of the Islamic Revolution(1979). The women’s destinies take different turns. Urban middle-class Roya continues a brilliant career, while Fereshteh, a provincial girl, is trapped in an abusive marriage.
Fri Jan 26, 07-10:00pm, 32-155
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Star Wars: The Jewish Side of the Force
Jordyn Rozensky
Wed Jan 31, 07-09:30pm, 1-190
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Join Rabbi Ben Lanckton and MIT Hillel for a viewing of Star Wars (A New Hope) and a discussion to follow touching on the Jewish Themes within the original trilogy. Come and interpret the Jedi philosophy through a Jewish lens!
Contact: Jordyn Rozensky, W11-040, x3-2982, jordynr@mit.edu
Sponsor: Hillel
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Storytelling and Games in the Digital Age
Prof. Henry Jenkins, Sande Scoredos and Thomas Hershey, Sony Pictures Imageworks
Mon Jan 29 thru Thu Feb 1, 10am-05:00pm, 14E-310
Fri Feb 2, 10am-05:00pm, 2-105
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Jan-2007
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.
Held in 14E-310. Friday February 2nd will be held in 2-105.
Contact: Generoso Fierro, 14N-207, x3-5038, generoso@mit.edu
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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The Films of Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Generoso Fierro
Wed Jan 31, Thu Feb 1, Fri Feb 2, 07-10:00pm, 1-134
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
A three-night film retrospective of one of the most exciting and innovative directors in the world: Thai director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. During these three nights we will examine his young career and view all five of his films, including his newest work: Invisible Waves, which was just nominated for a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Free popcorn!
Held in 1-134.
Contact: Generoso Fierro, 14N-207, x3-5038, generoso@mit.edu
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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Working Group Recycling presents: The True Cost of Food
Amy Donovan, Diana Daigle, Ryan Voiland, Chris Durkin
Tue Jan 23, 12-01:00pm, 10-500, Barker Library Media Room
Single session event
Prereq: none
We vote three times a day. With every meal we can choose to help the environment, or to harm it. This class will enable you to make more informed choices by providing alternatives to buying food that has traveled hundreds or thousands of miles by plane and truck. We’ll start by showing The True Cost of Food, a 15 minute educational and entertaining DVD produced by The Sierra Club. Then Ryan Voiland, owner of Red Fire Farm in Granby, will give an overview of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), a system which directly links consumers to the farmers who grow their food. The last part of the presentation will be given by Chris Durkin of Harvest Co-op Market, and will cover cooperative markets, organic food, local options, fair trade, food irradiation, and genetic modification of food. If time allows, discussion and questions to follow.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/
Contact: Amy Donovan, E25-335, x3-0009, adonovan@mit.edu
Sponsor: Working Group on Support Staff Issues
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ZOOM - Lost and Found
Tom White
Sat Jan 20, 01-02:00pm, 32-124
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
The PBS show ZOOM (72-79,99-05) 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 audience. 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". Find out how the little show that no one wanted became an enduring icon of American pop culture.
Please email me and let me know if you would like to attend
tpwhite@mit.edu
Web: http://www.originalalamo.com/downtown/frames.asp?b=/online_tix/show_details.asp?show_id=3958
Contact: Tom White, 9-449, x3-7414, tpwhite@mit.edu
Sponsor: Thomas P White, 9-425, 617 253-7414, tpwhite@mit.edu
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