A running theme throughout the career of theater director and actor André Gregory is proving that the seemingly impossible is actually possible. It might seem impossible to direct a production of Alice in Wonderland (1970) in which six people play all of the most iconic characters from Lewis Carroll’s two Alice books, transforming into different… Read more »
In 2011, as IU Cinema enjoyed its first year of providing transformative cinematic experiences, it also launched its official podcast, A Place for Film. After four years, the podcast released its 169th and final episode… until it was resurrected by regular blog contributor and IU Cinema lover David Carter in 2018. Over time, David and… Read more »
Guest post by Alyssa Brooks, Outreach and Programming Coordinator and Events and Operations Assistant at Indiana University Cinema. On Saturday, January 18, 2020 at 7:00 p.m., IU Cinema will screen the documentary Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, the first film in our Spring 2020 Science on Screen® series. Making Waves is directed by… Read more »
Guest post by Isabel Nieves. Themester intern Isabel Nieves had a conversation with Dr. Izabela Potapowicz, a visiting assistant professor in the Comparative Literature Department. They discussed the upcoming Themester film, After Life (1998), which follows several individuals transitioning from life to their afterlife. Each person can choose one cherished memory to recreate before the… Read more »
Guest post by Isabel Nieves. Themester intern Isabel Nieves had a conversation with Samuel D. Kassow, a professor in the Department of History at Trinity College. They discussed the upcoming Themester film, Who Will Write Our History. The film recounts the story of Emanuel Ringelblum and his mission to create an archive that documented the… Read more »
Guest post by Haley Semian. Caylee So: a filmmaker, a storyteller extraordinaire, a Cambodian-American, and an overall badass human being. Caylee was born in a refugee camp in 1981, just a couple years after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Her parents were of the many Cambodians fleeing a country plagued with a genocide that… Read more »
