Digital Humanities Initiative

Colgate Film & Art

For the listing on Colgate's website, please visit Colgate Film Events

Friday, February 19, 2010

Friday Night 35mm Film: Daddy-Long-Legs; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
Silent film actress and producer Mary Pickford was famous for her onscreen portrayals of children.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Alternative Cinema: Visiting Filmmaker Naomi Uman ; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
Naomi Uman, former private chef to Malcolm Forbes, Calvin Klein, and Gloria Vanderbilt, traded in her eggbeater and oven mitts for a 16mm film camera and acid resistant rubber gloves several years ago. Uman will present the works Leche, 1998, 30 min.; Removed, 1999, 6 min.; Hand Eye Coordination, 2002, 6 min., and other films.

Friday, February 26, 2010

Friday Night 35mm Film: The 400 Blows ; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
With Jean-Pierre Léaud in a seminal performance as Antoine Doinel, a disaffected adolescent whose life on the margins closely echoed Truffaut's own, he created a character he would return to again and again, and a style that would be as central to the emerging French New Wave as his writings in the pages of Cahiers du cinéma were.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Alternative Cinema: Sophie's Place ; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
"A culmination of five years' work. Full hand-painted cut-out animation." L.J. "... the greatest epic animation film ever, yr wondrous Sophie's Place...." Stan Brakhage.

Friday, March 5, 2010

Friday Night 35mm Film: Flight of the Red Balloon ; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's most recent film pays homage to Albert Lamorisse's classic of children's cinema in this story of a single mother (played by Juliette Binoche), her young son, his nanny, and Paris.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Alternative Cinema: R.R. and No ; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
Join us for the first in a series of screenings of work by James Benning and Sharon Lockhart who will be in residence as distinguished visiting filmmakers from March 23-27.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Alternative Cinema: Distinguished Filmmakers in Residence: James Benning ; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
Ruhr was filmed in the Ruhr District, the center of German coal and steel making.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Alternative Cinema: Distinguished Filmmakers in Residence: Sharon Lockhart ; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
Lunch Break, 2008, 83 min., 35mm transfer to HD video; Exit, 2008, 40 min., 35mm transferred to HD video.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Alternative Cinema: Distinguished Filmmakers in Residence: Sharon Lockhart ; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
A study of labor in the landscape, Double Tide's subject is a woman clammer in New England. (2009, 80 min., high definition, digitial video.) Sharon Lockhart in person.

Friday, March 26, 2010

Alternative Cinema: Distinguished Filmmakers in Residence: James Benning ; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
In Casting a Glance, Benning studies Robert Smithson's pioneering earthwork Spiral Jetty. (2007, James Benning, 80 min., 16mm.) James Benning will be here in person.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Alternative Cinema: October: L.A. Collage ; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
A personal, optically printed painting of Los Angels by long time "special effects" filmmaker, Pat O'Neil. (Water and Power, 1989, 54 min.)

Friday, April 2, 2010

Friday Night 35mm Film: Through the Olive Trees; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
The third installment in a tightly interwoven trilogy by Abbas Kiarostami chronicles the attempts of a director (a proxy for Kiarostami himself) to make a film (a proxy for Kiarostami's And Life Goes On..., the second film in the trilogy) in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake, the 1990 earthquake in northern Iran where the film is set.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Alternative Cinema: The 2010 Black Maria Film Festival ; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
John Columbus, festival founder and director, returns to Colgate to present a program of films and videos from the 2010 Black Maria Film Festival. Please join us.

Friday, April 9, 2010

Friday Night 35mm Film: M. Hulot's Holiday; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
One of the most childlike adults in the history of cinema, the good-natured innocent Mr. Hulot (incarnated by director Jacques Tati himself) takes a seaside holiday and in a series of slapstick sketches with little dialogue, becomes entangled in various misadventures.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Alternative Cinema: Films by Peter Hutton; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
Join us for a viewing of Images of Asian Music, 29 min., and At Sea, 60 min.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Friday Night 35mm Film: La Ciénaga; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
In her recent films, Argentine director Lucrecia Martel has not only established herself as a formidable presence in the country's flourishing cinema, but has also delicately portrayed the lives of young women.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Alternative Cinema: Structural Film ; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
Wavelength, 45 min., by Michael Snow, and Serene Velocity, 23 min., by Ernie Gehr.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Friday Night 35mm Film Series: The Adventures of Prince Achmed; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
In fanciful, multi-colored animations that echo the style of Balinese shadow puppets, Lotte Reiniger depicts the trials the titular Prince Achmed must go through to save his beloved Princess Pari Banu.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Alternative Cinema: Andy Warhol; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
Screen Tests (40 min.) and Blow Job (35 min.).

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Alternative Cinema: ARTS Student Videos; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
Join us for a program of selected videos made by students in the Department of Art and Art History in the Spring of 2010.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Alternative Cinema: ARTS Student Videos; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
Join us for a program of selected videos made by students in the Department of Art and Art History in the Spring of 2010.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Alternative Cinema: ARTS Student Videos; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
Join us for a program of selected videos made by students in the Department of Art and Art History in the Spring of 2010.

Friday, May 7, 2010

Alternative Cinema: ARTS Student Videos; 7:00PM-Till
Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
Join us for a program of selected videos made by students in the Department of Art and Art History in the Spring of 2010.