Guest post by Sylvia Martinez. The 2018 Latino Film Festival is about a week away! Planning for the festival began in the summer of 2017. With the help of Latino Studies faculty and graduate students, we settled on a theme and list of potential films by early September. This year’s theme, “Latinx Spaces,” seeks to… Read more »
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Ryijy Rugs and Postwar Tango: The “Finnishness” and “Nordic-ness” of Aki Kaurismäki’s Cinema
Guest post by Elisa Räsänen. Are Nordic people really happy? Yes, they are, at least according to the most recent World Happiness Report (2017), in which Norway was declared the happiest country in the world, with Denmark, Iceland and Finland making it into the top 5. We decided to explore this “happiness,” which is arguably a… Read more »
A Score Out of Time: In Conversation with Ryan Norris of Coupler
IU Cinema’s Social Media Specialist Caitlyn Stevens had the chance to interview Ryan Norris, founder of experimental music organization Coupler, about the experience of composing and performing the commissioned original score for the 1925 silent film Our Heavenly Bodies. In this exchange, Norris talks about his love of movies, the juxtaposition of sound and image,… Read more »
The 25th Character: Hal Phillip Walker and the Politics of Nashville
Guest post by Craig S. Simpson. He is running for President of the United States. His campaign van is a recurring presence in the film, as is his voice, an eloquent southern drawl. Blaring over loudspeakers as the van rolls through Nashville, Tennessee is an audio recording of the homespun wisdom of third-party candidate Hal… Read more »
The Latino Film Festival
Guest post by Dr. Alberto Varon. The Latino Film Festival sponsored by the Latino Studies Program has become a premier programming event for the IU and Bloomington communities since 2012. As in previous years, the two-day event will convene local scholars and film directors on the Bloomington campus to showcase and discuss recent trends in… Read more »
Sweet Dreams
Guest post by Abbey Stemler and Karen E. Woody. Sweet Dreams is a documentary film set in Rwanda that follows the efforts of Rwandan women to pursue an entrepreneurial dream of opening an ice cream shop. The significance of the film is that the women featured come from different backgrounds, yet are able to instill… Read more »