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“These Pieces of Time Had to Ricochet Off Each Other,“ Professor of Cinema and Media Studies Scott MacDonald’s interview with filmmaker Robb Moss, was recently published online in Documentary magazine.

"On Listening," a video essay by Pavitra Sundar, associate professor of literature, was featured in the 12th annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, which took place between August 19 and 23 in Middlebury, Vt.

Martine Guyot-Bender curated a program of Cambodian films at the 28th Maine International Film Festival in Waterville, Maine. The selection featured five works from Cambodia’s emerging New Wave, ranging from shorts to feature-length films. Filmmaker and producer Kavich Neang traveled from Cambodia to present his acclaimed film Last Night I Saw You Smiling (2019).

When someone learns that I’m a film history professor, the question, “What’s your favorite film?” is rarely long in coming.

Professor of Cinema and Media Studies Scott MacDonald was invited to speak with filmmaker Larry Gottheim at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) as part of the opening of a retrospective of the avant-garde filmmaker’s career.

Professor of Cinema and Media Studies Scott MacDonald was profiled as the “preeminent scholar of experimental cinema” in the winter issue of Cineaste.

“Deafening: The Sense of Sound [Re]Verbed,” a video essay by Pavitra Sundar, associate professor of literature and director of the Cinema and Media Studies program, was included in the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound poll of  “The best video essays of 2024.”

Professor of Cinema and Media Studies Scott MacDonald recently published two books on cinema and discussed his work in a talk at New York University.

A book of interviews by Professor of Cinema and Media Studies Scott MacDonald was the festival publication for Punto de Vista, the international documentary film festival of Navarra.

In its second meeting of the 2023-24 academic year, the Hamilton Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa elected 17 members of the Class of 2024.