Join Mass Culture, New Media and The Theater and Performing Arts Workshops in a special discussion with filmmaker Zoe Beloff on her installation The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and Its Circle, 1926-1972.  This joint workshop is sponsored in conjunction with her event, “Zoe Beloff: The Days of Commune,” at the Film Studies Center on May 17 at 7pm.

Zoe Beloff grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland. As an artist, she works with a wide range of media including film, projection performance, installation and drawing. She considers herself a medium, an interface between the real and the imaginary. Each of her projects aims to connect the present to past and to illuminate the future in new ways. Much of her recent work explores the utopian idea of social progress. Her work has been featured in a variety of international exhibitions and screenings, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the MUHKA museum in Antwerp, and the Pompidou Center in Paris. She has been awarded fellowships from Guggenheim Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a Professor in the Departments of Media Studies and Art at Queens College CUNY.

Friday, May 17, 10:30-12:00 pm in Cobb 310. Refreshments will be provided.

In preparation for the workshop, Zoe asks that you take a look at the Dream Films from The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and Its Circle, 1926-1972, in addition to a short supplemental reading available for download here. To obtain the password to access this paper, please contact workshop coordinators Hannah Frank at hmf [at] uchicago [dot] edu or Mikki Kressbach at mkressbach [at] uchicago [dot] edu

**Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please contact Hannah Frank at hmf [at] uchicago [dot] edu or Mikki Kressbach at mkressbach [at] uchicago [dot] edu**

Charles Burnett, director, will be discussing his 2007 film Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation, scenes from which he will screen at the workshop, and his experience making a film about a present-day hero.

Charles Burnett is in Chicago in conjunction with the L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema series at the Film Studies Center. Mass Culture Workshop participants are strongly encouraged to attend the screening of Burnett’s My Brother’s Wedding (1983/2007) and Robert Wheaton’s A Little Off the Mark (1986), which will be held in Logan Performance Hall on Thursday, May 2, at 7:00pm. For more information on the L.A. Rebellion, please visit  the UCLA Film & Television Archive website.

Friday, May 3, 10:30am - 12:30pm in Cobb 310. Refreshments will be provided.

There is no pre-circulating material for this workshop.

**Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please contact Hannah Frank at hmf [at] uchicago [dot] edu or Mikki Kressbach at mkressbach [at] uchicago [dot] edu**

James Rosenow, PhD student, Cinema and Media Studies: “You and I Eat the Baby: A Forgotten Hollywood Avant-Garde,” on Harry Hay’s Even—As You and I (1937).

Friday, April 26, 10:30am - 12:30pm in Cobb 310. Refreshments will be provided.

The paper is available here. To obtain the password to access this paper, please contact workshop coordinators Hannah Frank at hmf [at] uchicago [dot] edu or Mikki Kressbach at mkressbach [at] uchicago [dot] edu.

**Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please contact Hannah Frank at hmf [at] uchicago [dot] edu or Mikki Kressbach at mkressbach [at] uchicago [dot] edu**

Steve Ungar, Professor of Cinema and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa, will discuss “Before Vigo: Documentary Paris in the Shadow of the Talkies,” a chapter from a book-in-progress. Professor Ungar will begin the workshop with a screening Georges Lacombe’s La Zone (1928).

This workshop is preceded by a lecture by Professor Ungar, “All Roads Lead to Aubervilliers (1945): Eli Lotar and Social Documentary in France,” on Thursday, April 18 at the Film Studies Center.

Friday, April 19, 10:30am - 12:30pm in Cobb 310.  

Refreshments will be provided.

The paper is available here. To obtain the password to access this paper, please contact workshop coordinators Hannah Frank at hmf [at] uchicago [dot] edu or Mikki Kressbach at mkressbach [at] uchicago [dot] edu.

 **Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please contact Hannah Frank at hmf [at] uchicago [dot] edu or Mikki Kressbach at mkressbach [at] uchicago [dot] edu**

The workshop is delighted to help support the Department of Cinema and Media Studies’ Ninth Annual Graduate Student Conference, Visions of Scale: Magnification, Duration, Perspective, Projection. The full schedule for the conference is available here.