Mujeres Atrevidas with director Cynthia Tobar Thursday, March 6, 2025, 6:00pm-7:30pm Library 3rd Floor, Alumni Reading Room 200 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn NY 11205 Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRGdKHng2hqx0tEvxYdXvhYFOs-ERkiYVjramaK-PPEfZoog/viewform Mujeres Atrevidas chronicles the strength and persistence of Latine female app delivery workers, construction workers and domestic cleaners in Brooklyn as they confront harsh working conditions and fight for their rights through involvement with the Workers Justice Project. Weaving together interviews and footage of these women in action, the film spotlights the impact of Workers Justice Project’s advocacy campaigns to ensure female worker safety and dignity, centering a labor movement built around female empowerment. We’re thrilled to be partnering with the Department of Humanities and Media Studies as well as Social and Cultural Studies for this event and grateful to Pratt Institute for hosting us! We’ll start the evening with a screening of the short documentary Mujeres Atrevidas, followed by a panel discussion moderated by cinema studies scholar and educator Gina Marchetti with film director Cynthia Tobar, scholar and editor Mónica-Ramón Ríos and the Workers Justice Project. Cynthia Tobar is an artist, activist-scholar, filmmaker and oral historian passionate about creating participatory stories documenting social change. A first-generation Ecuadorian American born and raised in NYC, she strives to blend rigorous research with diverse artistic mediums to shed light on marginalized narratives and forgotten histories. Cynthia’s multimedia art, storytelling & film work has been exhibited widely in NYC. She has published on inclusive archiving practices, student activism in higher education, housing justice, & counter-narratives of historical exclusion in monument culture. This film was made possible, in part, thanks to the Greater New York Arts Development fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.

Wednesday March 5, 2025, 6:30pm -7:30pm Library 3rd Floor, Alumni Reading Room 200 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn NY 11205 Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0eA6gIE6yAfJxsY0OgM0i5FjWL51g3aDVx-ey78IXL2m57g/viewform With Director Christopher Radcliff and Writer/Producer Cathy Linh Che, moderated by Kyle Lucia Wu Based upon the poems of Cathy Linh Che, “We Were the Scenery” is a documentary short that tells the story of her parents, Hoa Thi Le and Hue Nguyen Che, who fled from Vietnam by boat in 1975. While staying in a refugee camp in the Philippines, they were hired to play extras in Francis Ford Coppola’s film Apocalypse Now. https://festivalplayer.sundance.org/sundance-film-festival-2025/play/6764dacf452a8fc935599492/675659e0c847b819245f46bc Cathy Linh Che is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press, 2025), Split (Alice James Books) and co-author, with Kyle Lucia Wu, of the children’s book An Asian American A to Z: a Children’s Guide to Our History (Haymarket Books). She is working on a creative nonfiction manuscript on her parents’ experiences as refugees who played extras on Apocalypse Now. Her video installation Appocalips is an Open Call commission with The Shed NY, and her film We Were the Scenery won the Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction at the Sundance Film Festival. Christopher Radcliff is a New York–based Chinese American filmmaker whose first feature film The Strange Ones was released theatrically in 2018. It was named by John Waters as one of the top ten films of the year in Artforum magazine. His short films, including The Strange Ones, Jonathan’s Chest, and Lost Episode, have screened worldwide including at the Sundance, SXSW, Rotterdam, and Clermont-Ferrand film festivals, and online via the Criterion Collection, Short of the Week, Vimeo Staff Picks, and Le Cinéma Club. He received his MFA from Columbia University’s Graduate Film Program and currently teaches in the undergraduate Film/Video Department at Pratt Institute.

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