The Film Forum started in the fall of 2005. It is dedicated to the critical discussion of films that not only delight us in the spectacular ways cinema most naturally does but also leave us puzzled, challenged, unsettled, or even irritated. The films we show cry out for discussion and have afforded us on many nights with the pleasure of intelligent and passionate conversation often even in the presence of the filmmakers themselves. The Film Forum’s Filmmakers on Campus Residency Program arranges week-long courses with award-winning film directors.
Director, Film Forum and Research Film Studio: Erika Kiss, University Center for Human Values
The events are made possible by the generous gift of Bert G. Kerstetter ’66
INTRODUCTION
Esther Schor, Professor of English, Chair, Council of the Humanities
PAT HARLEY IN CONVERSTAION
Post-screening discussion and Q&A with Carolyn Rouse, Ritter Professor of Anthropology, and Erika Kiss, Director of Research Film Studio & Film Forum
As part of the Baldwin Circles project, the Humanities Council and the UCHV Film Form present a film screening of the newly restored documentary I Heard It Through the Grapevine followed by a conversation with co-director and co-producer Pat Hartley. I Heard It Through the Grapevine, directed by Pat Hartley and Dick Fontaine, follows James Baldwin as he retraces the history of the Civil Rights Movements after two decades. The film offers a window into the past, as Baldwin makes his way through the American South to listen to the reflections of close friends and central figures of the movement.
INTRODUCTION
Daniel Garber, the A. Watson J. Armour III University Professor of Philosophy, and Leora Batnitzky, the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Judaic Studies
SCREENING
David Ofek
Spinoza: 6 Reasons for the Excommunication of the Philosopher
(2023)
POST SCREENING DISCUSSION
David Ofek, the film's director, and Yitzhak Melamed, the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University.
ArtHouse Memes is created by the UCHV Research Film Studio of Princeton University for the European Cultural Center Exhibition at the 2024 Art Biennale in Venice, which runs from May to November of 2024 and attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors.
Open to Princeton University ID holders
(Those not interested in learning about immersive filmmaking can work on meme-scripting of Poetic justice and The Best Music Video Ever.)
Final Cut is a so-called educational film directed by György Pálfi and produced by Béla Tarr for the Budapest Film University, where it is used regularly as a teaching aid. The film has attracted huge critical attention and was selected to be the closing gala screening of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. It serves as a template for our collective film, Poetic Justice (working title), also in terms of copyright and distribution issues. The student “meme-scripting” group will work parallelly all during the week with the help of remote participants, who will send memes from the films for the various basic dramaturgical elements determined by the scriptwriters. This group will report back to the film school each day.
Registration is required.
Free and Open to the Public.
Directors Guild Issues Statement in Support of Agnieszka Holland Amid Polish Government Backlash
After Holland's latest film, refugee drama 'Green Border,' was compared by the Polish justice minister to "Nazi propaganda," the director has received a groundswell of support.
Agnieszka Holland Defiant Despite ‘Abominable,’ ‘Dangerous’ Attacks as Venice Prize-Winning Refugee Drama ‘Green Border’ Prepares for Polish Theatrical Release
Join the bilingual and bicontinental round-table discussion about the principle of self-supporting balance.
Panel discussants: Professors Attilio Pizzigone and Vittorio Paris (University of Bergamo) Erika A. Kiss (Princeton University) in person in Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy and Professors Sigrid Adriaenssens and Chris Tully (Princeton University) in person in Princeton University, Green Hall 3C3.
Angelus Novus Collaborative,
UCHV Research Film Studio,
Form Finding Lab
An archive showcasing two decades of Film Forum events.
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