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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Below, students of journalism, international studies and religious studies in Media School Professor of Practice Elaine Monaghan’s “Covering Ireland” reporting class write collaboratively about a showing of Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice, a film packed with allegories, religious imagery and thoughts about death, fear, hope and materialism. As you will read, the student reporters found an… Read more »
Guest post by Jessica Davis Tagg, Assistant Director of Events, Facilities, and Guest Services at IU Cinema. The Day the Earth Stood Still stands as one of the earliest and greatest examples of film exploring the mystery and fear of alien contact, using it as an allegory for our mistrust of one another. With its flying… Read more »