Calendar
The East Lansing Film Festival will take place from November 3rd to the 10th. Films will be shown at Hannah Community Center, Studio C cinema, and Wells Hall on campus. Check out the website for the full listing of films, times, and locations.
The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin, 2007)
Presented by Matthew Handelman
Geography Awareness Week is holding a free movie screening and Q&A with the filmmakers Reuben Aaronson and Steve Lerner. The movie is “When the Well Runs Dry,” and is about the water situation in Kansas. Event is free and open to the public.
Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatopong Weerasethakul, 2015)
Presented by Lyn Goeringer
Contemporary Art History: Rethinking the Familiar recognizes the scholarly achievement of senior undergraduate students studying Art History and Visual Culture in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design at Michigan State University.
The 2016 Symposium features three independent research projects by students enrolled in HA 499, Senior Research/Professional Development. As the capstone experience for Art History and Visual Culture majors, HA 499 addresses career planning as well as engages students in the production of a substantial scholarly paper under the guidance of an art history faculty member.
Keynote Speaker, Dr. Mary Coffey
Thursday, December 1, 2016
MSU Main Library, 4th Floor Green Room, 6pm
Student Symposium
Friday, December 2
MSU Main Library, 4th Floor Green Room, 1–3 PM
Welcome Remarks
Dr. Susan J. Bandes
Department of Art, Art History, and Design
AUDREY SCHAEFER
Pleasurable Shame: The Feminist Work of Marilyn Minter
MORGAN SEGO
Contemporary Pakistani Miniature Paintings: Critiquing Western Exhibitions
VICTORIA LOUISE BONADIES
Valuing the Past, Present and Future: Perceptions of the Plaster Cast and the 3D Digital Copy
Comments and Questions
Dr. Mary Coffey
Image credits top to bottom
Karkhana 8, *Nusra Latif Qureshi, Saira Wasim, Talha Rathore, Imran Qureshi, Hasnat Mehmood, Aisha Khalid, 2003
Parthenon sculptures from the east pediment, 5th century BCE, British Museum
Tear Jerker, Marilyn Minter, 2004, C-print, detail
Son of Saul, directed by Laszlo Nemes
Winner of the 2016 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Son of Saul follows a Hungarian Jewish prisoner (Gez Rohig) in Auschwitz who works as a Sonderkommando, participating as a cog in the Nazis’ extermination machine. In a haunting exploration of the struggle to maintain one’s humanity in the midst of so much killing, Saul is determined to give the body of a young boy a proper Jewish burial.
Amy Simon (William and Audrey Farber Chair in Holocaust Studies, MSU) and Ken Walzer (History Professor Emeritus, MSU) will introduce the film, provide comments at the conclusion, and then lead a discussion about the film.
The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin, 2007)
Presented by Matt Handelman
Presented by Justus Nieland. An editor and his beautiful neighbor tiptoe toward an affair of their own after learning of their mates’ infidelity.
Presented by Lyn Goeringer
On a strange island inhabited by demons and spirits, a man battles the forces of evil.
The screening is free and open to all!
Presented by Yelena Kalinsky
Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 sci-fi masterpiece, based loosely on the Strugatsky brothers’ novel Roadside Picnic, takes place in a dystopian world where a mysterious Zone is sealed off by the government and is said to grant one’s deepest unconscious wish. Unable to resist the Zone’s pull, the Stalker of the title leads a washed-up writer and a cynical scientist on a spiritual and philosophical quest to the heart of the Zone. The illusion of continuous action through the constantly shifting landscape and strange, nondiegetic sound cast a seductive spell while ultimately frustrating any single interpretation.
Free and open to the public.