Laura Ryan, Film Office
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
This series will explore films that reject or challenge the narrative tradition that has been a hallmark of Hollywood film. We will investigate the use of framing, camera movements, and editing to discover how they create meaning without plot or character. Recurring themes will include time, humans and their relationship to nature, and history and memory. Attendance at all screenings is strongly encouraged but not required.
Screenings (Wednesdays)
1/6 3-7pm 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick
1/13 3-7pm Sans Soleil Chris Marker
1/20 3-7pm The Mirror Andrei Tarkovsky
1/27 3-7pm Aguirre: Wrath of God Werner Herzog
There will be a break in between screening and discussion. Following the screening, the discussion will run between 1 hour and 90 minutes. Not all sessions will run until 7pm.
Sponsor(s): Literature
Contact: Susan Wiedner, 14N-407, 617 258-5629, SWIEDNER@MIT.EDU
| Jan/06 | Wed | 03:00PM-07:00PM | 3-370 |
2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick (1968)
Aggressive apes, space machinery, killer A.I., and psychedelic time warps. This is Kubrick's epic space opera masterpiece.
There will be a break in between screening and discussion. Following the screening, the discussion will run between 1 hour and 90 minutes. Not all sessions will run until 7pm.
Laura Ryan - Film Office
| Jan/13 | Wed | 03:00PM-07:00PM | 3-370 |
Sans Soleil Chris Marker (1983)
Chris Marker takes us on a tour across 3 continents in this unique cine-essay that combines travel footage, dictated letters, and early experiments with video synthesizers.
There will be a break in between screening and discussion. Following the screening, the discussion will run between 1 hour and 90 minutes. Not all sessions will run until 7pm.
Laura Ryan - Film Office
| Jan/20 | Wed | 03:00PM-07:00PM | 3-370 |
The Mirror Andrei Tarkovsky (1975)
Personal and national history become deeply interwoven in this poetic dream-like journey through the time and space of rural Russia. This film is pure visual poetry at its best.
There will be a break in between screening and discussion. Following the screening, the discussion will run between 1 hour and 90 minutes. Not all sessions will run until 7pm.
Laura Ryan - Film Office
| Jan/27 | Wed | 03:00PM-07:00PM | 3-370 |
Aguirre: Wrath of God Werner Herzog (1972)
A heroic quest? Or a descent into madness? The story of a 16th century quest in search of El Dorado.
There will be a break in between screening and discussion. Following the screening, the discussion will run between 1 hour and 90 minutes. Not all sessions will run until 7pm.
Laura Ryan - Film Office