Andu Radu will visit @emestudiofilms’ HMS440S-03 Resonant Bodies in Art Films Feb 18th at 2pm by zoom. Image from @andu_radu_colour IG “colour palette for one of my favorite shots in @r.m.n._filmul, the latest feature directed by @cristian_mungiu and shot by @tudorpanduru on @arri alexa LF selected in @festivaldecannes official competition 2022 graded at @abator.eu”

In the summer of 2024 when the performance of Towards a Different Earth in Thrissur (India) ended, the mixed-abilityteam—Blind/VI, Deaf/hard-of-hearing, other disabilities, and non-disabled—broke down into tears of joy. Emerging from a powerful convergence of personal experience, community engagement, classical Indian theatre, such as Kutiyattam, and contemporary cross-media artistic expressivities, our project on mountains and climate change had made Kerala history as the first accessible performance of its kind. Braiding Earth Stories will consider how Accessible Theatres, from my own work to that of others such as Blind Opera and Jana Sanskriti, can offer a radical opening towards translocal intimacies and new forms of scoring the land. Thursday, February 13, 20255:00pm-6:30pmLibrary, 3rd flr. Alumni Reading Room200 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn NY 11205 Registration: https://forms.gle/XAQ2tVCPTccYq4iZ6

Pratt Institute’s Graduate Program in Media Studies is hosting a Virtual Open House for students who are interested in theMaster of Arts in Media Studies program. Join us to meet the faculty, current students and alumni, andlearn about the application requirements, program curriculum and the current campus events. Wednesday, February 12, 6:00pmRegistration: https://forms.gle/ARbubeg4meCSMixu9 Join Zoom Meeting: https://pratt.zoom.us/j/94660525103?pwd=kKA16P1knggdepQ3LQpCWRxzaFUrA4.1 Meeting ID: 946 6052 5103Passcode: 652656

Thursday, February 6, 2025 5:00pm - 7:30pm ARC E-02 200 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn NY 11025 Moderated by Professor Evans Chan Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyGdIzdG2affqbb5C1w3fu0t7EPdEu4ifkp_Me00aPh-13Ng/viewform Yi CUl is a Chinese filmmaker who works between her homeland and North America. Her practice embraces a process-driven methodology, allowing her to explore the intersections of diverse cinematic forms. She has developed a body of work centred on the theme of ‘Migrating Cinema,’ delving into the connections between Indigenous cinema, auto-ethnography, traveling film projection, and ancient screen arts such as the shadow theatre. She currently teaches at Colgate University in New York state, USA. Since 2013, CUl has been working with communities in Eastern Tibet, facilitating the creation of films by herdsmen, monks, and young students. Reflecting on her experiences living and working within these Tibetan communities, CUl created the experimental nonfiction film ‘To Alexandra’ which represents a collaborative effort between herself and local Tibetan filmmakers.

Student nominations are underway for Pratt Institute’s 2025 Distinguished Teacher Award via emails with a unique link for each student, voting closes on Friday, February 21, 2025.

ITAL 201-1: Intermediate Italian Prof. Barbara Turoff, Spring 2025 Wednesday, 2:00-3:20/Thursday, 9:30-10:50 Do you already know some Italian and want to improve your fluency? Have you already completed the Rome program or are planning to go? Why not continue improving your Italian? Intermediate Italian I is open to students who have taken Italian 101 and 102 or who already have a knowledge of Italian.

Julia Comita (MA in Media Studies graduate student) has released a photo series and accompanying essay in The Advocate (November 29, 2024). Prim ‘n Poppin’ is an ongoing photographic series highlighting inclusivity in beauty advertising through a vintage lens. The project features 9 all-original “ads” based on existing beauty advertisements from the 1970s, but flipping the often discriminatory imagery and languaging on its head to address current issues such as transgender rights and body positivity. Prim ‘n Poppin’ can be viewed in full, along with interviews provided by all cast members, on the website www.prim-poppin.com. You can read the essay here: https://www.advocate.com/voices/beauty-ads

HMS-342S/640S-02: French New Wave Cinema Mon 7:00p-9:50pm Professor Ethan Spigland The French New Wave is one of the most fascinating and influential of all film movements, celebrated for its exuberance and experimental approach to aesthetics. This class offers a fresh look at the socio-economic and cultural context that shaped French cinema in the 1950s and 1960s. We will track the precursors to the French New Wave, then focus on the core group of critics-turned-directors from the journal Cahiers du Cinéma (François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette) who would become the leading lights of the movement. We will study the relation between aesthetics and politics in their work as well as the depiction of gender and the construction of sexual identities. We will also examine the subgroup of French filmmakers known as the Left Bank Group, which included directors such as Agnès Varda, Chris Marker and Alain Resnais.

HMS 390A/600S-02: Poetry Across Media Sacha Frey Tuesday 2:00 - 4:50pm (Online) 3 Credits What is a poem? Who is a poet? What are the limits of the poem? In this course we will look and listen for poems and the poetic across a variety of contexts. Among our poetic texts will be works published as poems in different media (ie: print, audio, internet and video) and works typically presented as representative of other art forms (such as sculpture, painting, music, video art, conceptual art, net art, and dance). We will discuss these works in the context of poetry criticism and media theory.