Marco Bertozzi will be on hand to discuss his academic research and filmmaking. His film Refugees in Cinecittà / Profughi a Cinecittà,, a collaboration with Noa Steimatsky, screens at the Film Studies Center on February 28.

Friday, March 1, 10:30am - 12:00pm in Cobb 310. Refreshments will be provided.

Marco Bertozzi is a professor of history of documentary cinema at the University of Venice, and a founding member of DOC/IT, the Italian documentary filmmakers’ association, Bertozzi has published numerous studies of documentary cinema and relationships among the cinema, architecture and the city, and has produced numerous award-winning films. His latest monograph is History of the Italian documentary (Venice, 2008), which is used as a text book in several Italian universities and which received the Domenico Meccoli and Limina Awards 2009 for best cinema book of the year.

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Jennifer Reeves, filmmaker, will be screening some of her films, including Chronic (1996). This is a special session of the Mass Culture Workshop conducted in conjunction with the Moving Pictures Alphabet Series.

Friday, February 15, 10:30am - 12:00pm in Cobb 310. Refreshments will be provided.

Jennifer Reeves is a New York-based filmmaker working primarily on 16mm film since 1990. She does her own writing, cinematography, editing, painting and sound design on subjective and personal films that incorporate optical-printing and direct-on-film techniques. Reeves explores themes of memory, mental health and recovery, feminism and sexuality, landscape, wildlife and politics. She also teaches film/video/animation part-time at The Cooper Union and the School of Visual Arts in the Photography and Related Media MFA program.

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Ian Jones, PhD Candidate, Cinema and Media Studies: “Special Effectivities,” a chapter from his dissertation on the notion of “world” in videogames. A special joint session with the New Media Workshop.

Friday, January 25, 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.

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Dong Liang, PhD Candidate, Cinema and Media Studies: “Cinema Learns to Speak: Snapshots of the Early Talking History of Cinema,” a chapter from his dissertation on the aesthetics of dialects in contemporary Chinese cinema.

Friday, January 18, 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.

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D.N. Rodowick, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard: an excerpt from his forthcoming book from Harvard University Press, An Elegy for Theory.

Friday, January 11, 10:30am - 12:00pm 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**