This week A Place For Film editor Barbara Ann O’Leary had a chance to connect with Nzingha Kendall about her Four Seasons film installation taking place at the I Fell Building this Thursday, her commitment to supporting the work of experimental women filmmakers, and her engagement with IU Cinema. BOL: You’ve been involved with IU… Read more »
Interviews
A Conversation with Filmmaker Sarah Lasley
Sarah Lasley’s “The Imagemaker” premieres tonight at the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive Screening Room as part of The Body & Transcendence: a night of films by women directors. Julie Rooney, whose work will also screen this evening, conversed with Lasley about her new film and the themes that resonate through the films in the program…. Read more »
A Conversation with Award Winning Documentarian Frederick Wiseman
Guest post by Nathaniel Sexton. I recently had the opportunity of seeing Frederick Wiseman’s 1968 documentary High School for a second time, as part of IU Cinema’s ongoing Filmmaker to Filmmaker series. The last time I saw the film, over ten years ago, I was myself a student in a public high school. Indignation marked… Read more »
A Conversation with Award-Winning Filmmaker Andrew Ahn
Korean-American filmmaker Andrew Ahn, whose works include short films Dol (First Birthday) and Andy and the feature film Spa Night, explores Korean-American and queer identities while challenging American film culture to expand and diversify. In this interview with Ahn, we ask about how he approaches filmmaking, the connections between his films, and more. We are super… Read more »
A Conversation on Composing ‘Body and Soul’
This Saturday, IU Cinema will present a world premiere of a new orchestral score for Body and Soul. To learn more about what was involved in creating a completely new score for a silent film, I spoke with Eun-Chul “Charlie” Oh, an IU student, composer, and 2016 winner of the Jon Vickers Film Scoring Award, and Larry Groupé, an… Read more »
The Beginnings of the City Lights and Underground Film Series
Last semester I did a blog post on the Lilly Library’s David Bradley Collection, a resource used in the selection of titles screened in the City Lights Film Series at the IU Cinema. In my explorations of this wonderful collection I discovered that not only does it have a rich history, but so too… Read more »