Don't miss the Carleton premier of "Disconnected", a documentary following three Carleton students who go without computers for a month. Disconnected was produced by Carleton students under the guidance of instructor Melody Gilbert and Educational Associate Wain Yee.
Wednesday, May 14 | Olin 149 | 9PM
The CAMS Department will be screening "Disconnected" on Carleton's campus in mid-May. The screening represents the culmination of several terms of work by eight Carleton CAMS students, under the guidance of instructor Melody Gilbert and Educational Associate Wain Yee.
"Disconnected" is a feature length film that was recently shown at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film festival. It follows three students who go without computers for a month, and explores computer's presence in our daily social, work, and academic lives. This film has received considerable media coverage and is the first feature length film any Carleton students have ever produced.
Wednesday May 14 | Olin 149 | 9PM
Carleton students in Cinema and Media Studies professor John Schott's "Site-Specific Media" class have been creating their own site-specific media. Their projects are now visible online. The projects currently online represent the first set of projects in a series of three. Each of the projects attempt to connect the viewer to their viewing environment and to challenge conventional venues for viewing images. Take a look by clicking here.
"Disconnected" a documentary film by a group of eight Carleton students has been accepted in the 2008 Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival. The film has been produced by Carleton students under the guidance of visiting Cinema and Media Studies instructor Melody Gilbert, and Cinema and Media Studies educational associate, Wain Yee. Ticket information is available here: http://www.mspfilmfest.org/2008/content/view/128/27.
Student contributors include Reed Langton-Yanowitz '11 (Rochester, MN), Julian Laurent '08 (Herndon, Va.), Chel Lundin '08 (Lakeville, MN), Caitlin Magnusson '09 (Renton, WA), Jerome Potter '09 (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA), Tom Schmidt '08 (Northfield, MN), Andrew Tatge '09 (Des Moines, IA), and Ezra Valazquez '10 (Trabuco Canyon, CA).
The feature-length film asks the question, "How long could you go without a computer?" To find out "Disconnected" follows three Carleton students - Lundin, Magnusson, and Tagte - as they take on the challenge of ditching all computers to see how their academic, work, and social lives are affected.
Sunday, April 27 | St. Anthony | 5PM
You are invited to a rare opportunity at Walker this Friday. The Walker Art Center is hosting celebrated Mexican director Carlos Reygadas who will introduce his amazing new film "Silent Light" followed by a Q & A with the director. Since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival (where it took the Jury Prize) it has been featured in many international film festivals such as the Toronto Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival (Gold Hugo for Best Feature Film). In March the film swept the 50th annual Ariel Awards, the Mexican equivalent of the Oscars, with prizes for
best film best director, best supporting actress, best cinematography and best original screenplay.
For this special event we can provide students with one free ticket per person. The free tickets will be available starting at 6 pm on Friday and students will each need a valid student I.D. to claim their ticket.
Visionary director Carlos Reygadas' new film reveals a spiritual crisis unfolding in a strict Mennonite community near Chihuahua, Mexico. As in his earlier films, Battle of Heaven and Japón, Reygadas infuses Silent Light with neo-Biblical imagery to explore ways that passionate, error-prone people reconcile their physical desires with their deep religious convictions. Winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. 2007, 35mm, in Plautdietsch with English subtitles, 144 minutes.
Support for filmmaker travel is provided by Casa Travel.
Friday, April 25 | Walker Art Center | 7:30pm
This week senior CAMS students Sarah Nienaber and Andy Lauer will present their final senior compositions. Andy will begin his talk at 4:30 and Sarah will follow at 5PM on Wednesday. Food will be provided at the presentations. Below are descriptions of each of their projects.
Andy Lauer's project "Some Films Are Better Than Others: Lyman H. Howe, Cultural Capital and Bringing the World to Northfield, MN":
Through public opinion in Northfield regarding the movies had reached an all time low by 1916, when traveling exhibitor Lyman How came through the town presenting his popular travel pictures that Spring, as he did every year, his movies were not only heartily embraced but, in fact, held up as paragons of the merits of film exhibition. Why was this? Drawing on original research and primary documents, Andy argues that Lyman Howe managed to package himself as a purveyor of "high-class" entertainment, a persona that appealed to bourgeois Northfield residents looking to reinforce notions of cultural hierachy in the heavily Protestant "arts community." This is the story of a small town confronting modernity and all that came with it- industrialization, imperialism, war- and how that experience was mediated through the films of Lyman Howe.
Sarah Nienaber's project "Project: Meaning":
Neither absolute cinema, nor literature, this avant-garde fiction piece is a self-contained space in which "abstract" words (pulled from the Carleton English Department's 2008 Reading List) and "realistic" images are in dialogue with and opposition to one another—an adventure in semiotics, "Project: Meaning" is in its wholeness a language of its own.
Wednesday 23 | Scoville 102 |4:30PM-5:30PM
In preparation for the screening of Carleton student's documentary "Disconnected" at St. Anthony Main this coming Sunday, City Pages offered Melody Gilbert and students in her Cinema and Media Studies class the following article. Take a look by clicking here and scrolling down.
Join us for a demonstration of the Panasonic HVX200 HD Camera today.
This camera will be available to use on campus for a few weeks to select candidates but students MUST have training before they are allowed to use it. After the demonstration, the Panasonic Rep will meet with a handful of students for more one-on-one training.
The HVX200 is widely considered one of the most innovative designs in handheld HD cameras, taking a major leap in image quality and capabilities. The HVX200 incorporates the benefits of P2, the state-of-the-art memory recording device, increasing capacity and quality.
Panasonic HVX200 HD Camera
Monday, April 21 | Scoville102 | 4:30PM
Tom Schmidt and Alison Jarzyna, two Senior CAMS majors, will present their senior composition projects this week. The presentations will last approximately half an hour each, Tom Schmidt beginning his presentation first and Alison Jarzyna presenting second.
Tom Schmidt will be speaking on "Revolutions in Radio". His talk will focus on how redefining radio in light of technological advancements and a fast evolving society can help the medium retain its relevance and bring about new possibilities for radio as a whole. People can view it online at www.revolutionsinradio.com
Alison Jarzyna will explain how film fan culture and film industry interact. Below is a description of her presentation:
From the earliest days of the studio system, film fan culture worked as a dialogue between the film industry and the local audiences who attended the movies. The mediating factor between these two was the film stars who sold the studio's product and conveyed the cultural ideas and values of the time. Though film history focuses on studio histories and the biographies of stars whose work is still readily accessible, the local approach and what was typical of the era has been overlooked. Case studies of three such “forgotten” film stars -- Marguerite Clark, Wallace Reid, and Sessue Hayakawa --will hope to provide a film history that negotiates the relationship between Hollywood’s Paramount-Lasky studios and film fans in Northfield.
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