F.I.L.M. Series

The renowned Anvil Orchestra (Larry Dersch, Terry Donahue, and Roger Miller) returns to accompany two classic, breakthrough "silent" films. At 2 p.m., Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929): a British Film Institute poll of film historians and critics rated it film history's greatest documentary. At 7 p.m., Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920): the film that established the horror film genre. Both screenings are in the Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson 125, and are free and open to the public. Support for F.I.L.M. events is provided by the Dean of Faculty Office, the Kirkland Endowment, and the Cinema and Media Studies Pro...

The renowned Anvil Orchestra (Larry Dersch, Terry Donahue, and Roger Miller) returns to accompany two classic, breakthrough "silent" films. At 2 p.m., Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929): a British Film Institute poll of film historians and critics rated it film history's greatest documentary. At 7 p.m., Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920): the film that established the horror film genre. Both screenings are in the Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson 125, and are free and open to the public. Support for F.I.L.M. events is provided by the Dean of Faculty Office, the Kirkland Endowment, and the Cinema and Media Studies Pro...

Brianna Burke, faculty fellow in Native and Indigenous studies and visiting associate professor of environmental studies, presents a double feature of Billy Luther's award-winning films. At 2 p.m., Miss Navajo (2007, 58 minutes), a documentary exploring the role of women and tradition in Diné (Navajo) culture through a young woman's quest for the Miss Navajo Nation crown. At 3:30 p.m., Frybread Face and Me (2023, 83 minutes), Luther's narrative feature debut, in which two Navajo cousins spend a summer on their grandmother's ranch — "a refreshing queer take on the coming-of-age genre" (High Country News). Both screenings are free and open to the...

Brianna Burke, faculty fellow in Native and Indigenous studies and visiting associate professor of environmental studies, presents a double feature of Billy Luther's award-winning films. At 2 p.m., Miss Navajo (2007, 58 minutes), a documentary exploring the role of women and tradition in Diné (Navajo) culture through a young woman's quest for the Miss Navajo Nation crown. At 3:30 p.m., Frybread Face and Me (2023, 83 minutes), Luther's narrative feature debut, in which two Navajo cousins spend a summer on their grandmother's ranch — "a refreshing queer take on the coming-of-age genre" (High Country News). Both screenings are free and open to the...

Professor Zhuoyi Wang presents Filmmaker Iris Yang and her film The Returning Tide: Thirty Years On. The screening is at 2 p.m. in the Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson 125, and is free and open to the public. Yang's film revisits the legacy of the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995, through the voices of more than twenty feminist activists across East Asia. Thirty years later, the film asks what sustains connections across borders and generations, and what keeps the tide returning again and again. Iris Yang is a researcher, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. Her work explores how people continue to f...

Award-winning filmmakers Ross McElwee and Hyun Kyung Kim present their most recent films, free and open to the public in the Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson 125. At 2 p.m., McElwee screens Remake (2025), winner of the Golden Globes Impact Prize for Documentary at the Venice Film Festival, in which a central figure of American personal documentary confronts the 2016 death of his son Adrian on film. At 7 p.m., Kim screens Defectors (2023), a Special Jury Award winner at Visions du Réel, tracing what the division of Korea has meant for her own family and for North Korean defectors she knows. Ross McElwee is a major figure in the history of per...

Award-winning filmmakers Ross McElwee and Hyun Kyung Kim present their most recent films, free and open to the public in the Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson 125. At 2 p.m., McElwee screens Remake (2025), winner of the Golden Globes Impact Prize for Documentary at the Venice Film Festival, in which a central figure of American personal documentary confronts the 2016 death of his son Adrian on film. At 7 p.m., Kim screens Defectors (2023), a Special Jury Award winner at Visions du Réel, tracing what the division of Korea has meant for her own family and for North Korean defectors she knows. Ross McElwee is a major figure in the history of per...

Semester Cinema directors Jay Craven and Nicole Doerges will present a film-in-progress An Enemy of the People, the new Semester Cinema film. Cinema Semester is an off-campus program during which college students work with professional filmmakers to produce a feature film. Hamilton students, Makato Carolin, Ranen Deb, Mello Darr, and Gori Goto were part of the 2025 production team and will hopefully join us. F.I.L.M. events are are held in the Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson 125 and are free and open to the public. Support for F.I.L.M. events is provided by the Dean of Faculty Office, the Kirkland Endowment, and the Cinema and Media Studies...

Filmmaker Robb Moss will present his new feature The Bend in the River (2026) which completes the trilogy that began with Riverdogs (1982) and The Same River Twice (2003). Over the past 40+ years, Robb Moss, film production professor at Harvard and longtime Sundance advisor, has chronicled the lives of several friends, from their youthful adventures as river guides through their decades as parents, teachers, politicians and political advisors into their lives as 70-somethings. What does aging feel like? It may surprise you; check it out! F.I.L.M. events are are held in the Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson 125 and are free and open to the pub...