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Visiting Professor of Film History Scott MacDonald was the lead programmer at this year’s Brakhage Symposium at the Brakhage Center of the University of Colorado in Boulder on March 11-13.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies Brent Plate’s perspectives on this year’s Oscar nominees and the themes conveyed by them appear on several major media sites including CNN.com, Religion Dispatches and beliefnet.com. “It’s kind of an unusual year – almost all of the top films have relatively little explicit religious dimensions to them,” said Plate. “But these films are asking the same questions that religions ask: Where did we come from, how did we get here, where are we going and who are we?”

A feature article by Professor of Cinema and New Media Studies Scott MacDonald has been published in the Winter, 2010 issue of Film Quarterly. In “Avant-Doc: Eight Intersections” MacDonald reflects on links between documentary and avant-garde filmmaking traditions.

Professor of Cinema and New Media Studies Scott MacDonald participated in a Futures Seminar at the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, on Nov. 18 and 19. He was one of three guests invited to the seminar.

Two Hamilton students and three faculty members participated in the Flaherty Film Seminar at Colgate University June 19-25. Jori Belkin ’11, Cameron Breslin ’11, Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English Patricia O'Neill, Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald, Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Su Yun Kim, watched and discussed documentary films from around the world with the filmmakers, and with film scholars, programmers and educators.

Visiting Professor of Film History Scott MacDonald's interview with Indonesian/Dutch filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich appears in the current issue of Film Quarterly, and his essay on Russian montage filmmaker Artavazd Peleshian appeared in the February issue of Artforum.

Visiting Professor of Film History Scott MacDonald Scott MacDonald presented two public screenings and a master class on the topic “Avant/Doc,” the historical/theoretical intersections of documentary film and avant-garde film, at UnionDocs, a nonprofit organization on Union Street in Brooklyn that nurtures young documentary filmmakers.

Scott MacDonald’s discussion of filmmaker Andrew Noren’s recent films, to be featured in a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art later this month, appears in the current issue of Artforum. His interview with nature filmmakers Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou (Microcosmos, Genesis) appears in the current issue of Natural History, published by the Museum of Natural History in New York.