F.I.L.M. Series

The Anvil Orchestra returns!

Roger Miller, Terry Donahue (you know them from the Alloy Orchestra—“best in the world at accompanying silent film”—Roger Ebert) return to Hamilton with percussionist Lawrence Dersch to accompany

at 2 p.m. Robert Wiene’s THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920). The film that established the Horror film!

and

at 7 p.m. Dziga Vertov’s THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (1929) In 2003, the Sight and Sound poll of film critics ranked this “city symphony” the greatest documentary of all time.

F.I.L.M. events are f...

The Anvil Orchestra returns!

Roger Miller, Terry Donahue (you know them from the Alloy Orchestra—“best in the world at accompanying silent film”—Roger Ebert) return to Hamilton with percussionist Lawrence Dersch to accompany

at 2 p.m. Robert Wiene’s THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920). The film that established the Horror film!

and

at 7 p.m. Dziga Vertov’s THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (1929) In 2003, the Sight and Sound poll of film critics ranked this “city symphony” the greatest documentary of all time.

F.I.L.M. events are f...

Producer (Author/Editor) Larry Platt presents:

Kelce (2024)

Larry Platt conceived, wrote and produced this Emmy-award-winning documentary about the off-field life of football star Jason Kelce, which became the most-watched film in Amazon history.

 In September 2015 Platt founded The Philadelphia Citizen, a non-profit, nonpartisan, multi-platform news organization focusing on solutions-oriented journalism, with a growing, influential audience of 1.2 million local patriots.

Platt is author of numerous books, including New Jack Joc...

Professor Kyoko Omori presents Kaizo Hayashi’s

To Sleep So as to Dream (1986)

A silent film with music?

Yes

A film noir with magicians?

Yes

A tribute to old Japanese movies?

Yes

Will the filmmaker be on campus?

Yes!

Will there be other Hayashi events this week?

YES!

(announcements will follow)

 

F.I.L.M. events are free and open to the public.

Support for F.I.L.M. events is provided by the Dean of Faculty Off...

Jay Craven returns to Hamilton to show a rough-cut clip of Major Barbara and other short films relating to the CinemaSemester program that Craven has masterminded for a decade.

The following Hamilton Students contributed to the production of Major Barbara:

Christie Lam, Imani Mitchell, Jack O'Brien, Mariano Russo, Aderyn Grace, Trevor Wilkes, Brielle Whalen     Stephen Fealy, and Mekhia Foster

Come see what, working with professionals, they produced.

F.I.L.M. events are free and open to the public.

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When  2:00 p.m. Sunday, October 13

Where  Kirner-Johnson (KJ) 125 Bradford Auditorium, Map #14

Open to Off Campus Guests

Professor Anna Huff presents Arthur Jones and his film Feels Good Man (2020)

Funny and at times terrifying, Feels Good Man charts Pepe the frog’s journey from obscure comic book character, to popular Internet meme, to hate symbol.

Pepe’s descent into the Internet’s black hole, is a case study in how social media has changed culture and how trolling has come to define U.S. politics. The film is an exhaustively researched examination of how ideas spread online. It’s also a moving portrait of one man, one frog, and the courage required to ...

Lisa Molomot ’93 revisits Hamilton to present her newest documentary, the multi-award-winning

Missing in Brooks County (2022)

The deadliest part of a migrant's journey is just beyond the border. For those who go missing, one man offers a last hope.

And she’ll talk about her journey from Hamilton French major to documentary filmmaker.

F.I.L.M. events are free and open to the public.

Support for F.I.L.M. events is provided by the Dean of Faculty Offi...

Professor Celeste Day Moore presents Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (2022)

And hosts a video meeting with director and master editor, Sam Pollard.

Spike Lee, whose films Pollard has edited and produced, has described him as “a master filmmaker.”

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: “When I think about his documentaries, they add up to a corpus—a way of telling African-American history in its various dimensions.”

F.I.L.M. events are free and open to the public.

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When  2:00 p.m. Sunday, November 3

Where  Kirner-Johnson (KJ) 125 Bradford Auditorium, Map #14

Open to Off Campus Guests

Film Scholar Max Tohline presents “Living in a Reversed World”

In the 1890s, an unintended side effect emerged from a new invention. The movies could also be played backwards!

“And from the moment that we ran records of time in reverse, something in the sights we sawwalls un-falling, divers un-diving, lives resurrectedstirred us deep in our souls. Reverse motion made us laugh and scratch our heads and imagine miracles, and it suggested that cinema held a poetic power that could free us from our present-tense prison and let us recapture ...