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Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald completed his obligation as a 2011 Academy Film Scholar on March 18 with a lecture and film screening at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood.

The Hamilton College F.I.L.M. series will feature Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles with an appearance by director Chuck Workman, on Sunday, March 8, at 2 p.m., in KJ's Bradford Auditorium. This and all F.I.L.M. events are free and open to the public.

The spring F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series opens on Sunday, March 1, with an interactive performance with media artist/explorer Jennifer Proctor. All F.I.L.M. screenings will take place at 2 p.m. in Bradford Auditorium, KJ, and are free and open to the public.

Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald delivered the annual Rajiv Vaidya Film Lecture on Dec. 7 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He spoke on the New York Film Society Cinema 16 and presented a program that demonstrated the programming strategy developed by Amos Vogel at Cinema 16 between 1947 and 1963 – a strategy that expanded the film culture of New York City and the nation.

Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald recently published a book titled Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema.

Hamilton’s F.I.L.M. series will present Gasland II, directed by Josh Fox, on Sunday, Oct. 12, at 2 p.m., in the Kirner-Johnson Building’s Bradford Auditorium. Fox will be present and will talk about his film following the screening. The event is free and open to the public.

“The Sound of Silent Film: A Two-Part Benshi Event,” the second 2014 F.I.L.M. Series program, offered a packed house a multi-faceted event featuring a unique musical collaboration between international artists from Japan, France and Canada on Sunday, Sept. 28. The audience, which included numerous local Utica community members, were treated to a world premiere of a Western-style composition with traditional Japanese instruments brought together for the purpose of accompanying Japanese silent movies.

The fall 2014 F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series opens with J. P. Sniadecki's presentation of his new film The Iron Ministry on Sunday, Sept. 21, at 2 p.m., in Bradford Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson Building. The screening is free and open to the public.

This summer Bennett Glace ’16, the recipient of an Emerson Grant, is examining ‘trash’ cinema with Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald in their project titled “Another Man’s Treasure: An Exploration of ‘Trash’ Cinema.”

Recipients of the 2014 Emerson Summer Grants were recently announced. Created in 1997, the  program was designed to provide students with significant opportunities to work collaboratively with faculty members, researching an area of interest. The recipients, covering a range of topics, are exploring fieldwork, laboratory and library research, and the development of teaching materials. The students will make public presentations of their research throughout the academic year.