Author: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock

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!

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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.

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Rome Summer 2024: Documentary Photography

For the first time in three years, the Visual Arts Department will be running our summer course in Rome, and applications are now open for VART 3500 Documentary Photography, a Summer Session 1 course, is open to all students, so feel free to invite your non-Visual Arts Majors/Minors friends.

The course requires no prior experience with photography, and digital cameras will be provided to participants; however, it will be up to you to eat all that delicious gelato. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, so please set up an appointment with either myself or Professor Lawton to speak more about the course if you are interested. The attached PDF shows examples of the previous student photography books, which are the culmination of the class and become a part of the university library collection, as well as some of the exhibitions of student work.

Ciao, Stephan and Joe (Stepahno & Giuseppe)

Program Fee $3,600 + 4 Credits Summer tuition 

What is included:

  • Local Transportation and group pick-up from the Airport
  • Student Housing
  • Welcome Dinner & Farewell Dinner
  • Classroom space, Monday through Thursday, for 15 hours a week (for critiques and Italian film screenings)
  • Cultural Activities/Visits and Day Trips
    • MIC Museum Pass
    • Galleria Borghese
    • Borghese Gardens
    • Vatican Museum
    • Maxxi Modern Art Museum
    • Uffizzi Museum
    • Orvieto Duomo
    • Signorelli Chapel
    • Spanish Steps
    • Trevi Fountain
    • Day trip to Orvieto
    • Day trip to Florence
    • Plus numerous espressi and more!

Application Deadline:

  • Priority Deadline: February 1, 2024
  • Final Deadline: February 15, 2024

Apply here for the program

Fordham Summer Study Abroad ScholarshipCompleted applications must be submitted by February 15. Scholarships are applied toward the summer course tuition for summer study abroad programs offered to undergraduates by the International & Study Abroad Programs Office. Award amounts will range from $500 to $1,500 and will be awarded based on financial need, academic merit, and your study abroad application essay responses.

Apply for the Summer Study Abroad Scholarship

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ARCHIVUM

ARCHIVUM

Projects selected and created by BALCONY: International Network of Curators
Participants: Raya Bruckenthal, Manuela de Leonardis, Richard Demarco, Drorit Gur Arie, Felice Hapetzeder, Michael Lazar, Paul Malone, Tomasz Matuszak, Anibal Pella-Woo, Fabrizio Perozzi, Doron Polak, Nicola Rae, Maayan Tsadka, Jan Van Woensel, Jaroslav Vančát, Joyce Yahouda, Dzintars Zilgalvis, Kriss Zilgalvis
Organizer: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock

Fordham University’s Lipani Gallery
June 23—July 28, 2023
Public reception: Friday, June 23rd, 5—7 pm
Fordham University at Lincoln Center map
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
Map to the Lipani Gallery
fordhamuniversitygalleries
https://balcony-art.com/

Fordham University is proud to present a new exhibition in the Lincoln Center Campus Lipani Gallery, ARCHIVUM, which brings together twelve curators from nine countries to select over thirteen artists. Through various forms, including book, installation, photography, sound, and video, this exhibition’s contributors explore what might constitute an archive. With that question as the starting premise, the works on display provide a range of interpretations of places, events, and institutions and raise numerous questions about research, commerce, history, translation, and memory.

The French philosopher Jacques Derrida stated that the question of archives is not a question of the past. It is a question of the future, a question of response, of promise, and a responsibility for tomorrow. The archive has become raw material and inspiration for many artists over the previous decades. Artists develop different levels of relationship with personal, familial, and public archival material. They move in a flexible space of history and cut across the depths of time. They decompose archival materials, disrupt and reference them, and create new narratives from concrete or imaginary archives. The archival memory they control, mark, and limit starts a conversation in which the artist decides who will enter the gates of memory.

Balcony: International Network of Curators was set up by Drorit Gur Arie, Doron Polak, and Michael Lazar in April 2020 as a network of independent international curators. The platform establishes connections between art curators to exchange professional information and initiate joint projects.

This exhibition, ARCHIVUM, is sponsored by Fordham University’s Department of Visual Art and is organized in New York by Professor Apicella-Hitchcock.

Link to the exhibition
For more information, please contact Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock.

For the Visual Arts Department Website: click here.
Instagram: @visualartsfordham

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Case Study Tokyo 2023

Drum roll, please—clocking in at 312 pages with over 3,000 images and approximately 87 miles of behind-the-scenes walking over nine days—the Case Study Tokyo 2023 book is complete!

Take one part working methodology from the influential 1972 book, “Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form,” combine it with the megacity of Tokyo, add Fordham University Gabelli students, stir for ten days in Japan, and what do you get? You acquire knowledge through experience with a small team, realized in a research volume focusing on branding, sensory marketing, architecture, design, photography, and urban planning.

Preview the entire book online.