2024 Senior Review
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!
Professor Pix #1: The Exorcist
Rome 2025!
2024 Summer Session Two Digital Photography [REMOTE]
As the poster says, “Study Photography—have fun!” 2024 Summer Session 2 Digital Photography [remote]. Feel free to join our merry band of image makers.
Words & Sounds #2: Poet Ama Birch
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.
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
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.
Majors & Minors Meeting
