Professor Pix #2: Close-Up: 11/14, 6 pm ?>

Professor Pix #2: Close-Up: 11/14, 6 pm

Professor Pix Film #2: Close-Up, 1990 Directed Abbas Kiarostami
November 14, 2024, 6 pm
Lincoln Center Campus Visual Arts Complex Film Screening Room SL24L
Open to everyone. Pizza is served at 6, and the film screening starts shortly after
Film discussion moderated by Professor Fadi Skeiker, Professor Ashar Foley, and Professor Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock
Sponsored by the LC Dean’s Office and Professor Connections funding

“Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up has resonated with viewers around the world.” —Criterion

What is Professor Pix? Each season, we ask professors in the Visual Arts Department and special guests to present significant films to the Fordham community. At screenings, we enjoy pizza together, watch a movie, and then discuss it afterward. So, step outside your regular streaming queue, experience something different, and join our community of merry cinephiles throughout the semester. It’s called Professor Pix, and it’s fun—so bring your friends!

Art of the Interview (an Art & Engagement class) ?>

Art of the Interview (an Art & Engagement class)

VART 2222 has new attributes coming: History, American Studies, Theater Production and Design, Urban Studies (and it still has New Media Digital Design and Community Engaged Learning attributes).

Please note we changed the name of the course from “Archival Reenactments” to “Art of the Interview.”
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Moments and Time: 2024 Senior Thesis Group Show

2024 Senior Thesis Group Show

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The Fordham University Department of Visual Arts is pleased to present, Moments and Time, a final group show of the 2024 Senior Thesis Students.

Featuring work by: Booch O’Connell, Sara Lockett, Gabrielle Gowans, Arina Medvedeva, Maureen Segota, Erin Newton, Spencer Balter, Mila Gras, Julia Boberg, Caroline Wong, and Madison Nash.A closing reception will be on May 15 from 6-8pm.

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Professor Pix: Rose Hill Edition

Dear Visual Arts Majors, Minors, Professors, Administrators, and Cinema Lovers,

Each season, we ask professors in the Visual Arts Program to present significant films to the Fordham community. At screenings, we enjoy pizza together, watch a movie, and then discuss it afterward. So, we invite you to step outside your regular streaming queue, experience something different, and join our community of merry cinephiles throughout the semester. The series is called Professor Pix, and it’s a visual and auditory blast—so join us—and bring your friends!

With La Dolce Vita (the Sweet Life), Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini vividly described the journeys of a protagonist through the vortex of 1960s socialites in Rome. With Paolo Sorrentino’s 2013 homage, The Great Beauty, the meanings and messages are updated for a new generation. On Wednesday, March 6th, at 6:30, the Professor Connections Program and the Visual Arts Program will co-sponsor the first Rose Hill Edition of Professor Pix! with Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty, selected by Professor Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock.

Sorrentino stated that one of the inspirations for his movie was the statement by the French novelist Gustave Flaubert that he wished to write a novel about nothing. “By ‘nothing,’ he meant the rumors and gossip, the thousand ways we have of wasting time, the things that irritate us or delight us but that are so short-lived that they make us doubt the meaning of life. That ‘nothing’ makes up many people’s entire lives.” Sorrentino also wanted to depict “the great thing about life, the fact that you can be surprised by something that you’d decided was vulgar and wretched, and then suddenly what is vulgar and wretched reveals its own entirely unexpected grace.”

How could a film supposedly about nothing be so captivating and full of grace, you ask? Come find out.

Wednesday, March 6th, at 6:30, Rose Hill Campus, Keating Lower Level Visual Arts Studio B08.

Pizza and camaraderie  courtesy of the Professor Connections Program and Visual Arts.

Open to everyone.