Guest post by Mary Figueroa, Graduate Assistant Projectionist at IU Cinema. “On November 8, 1971, twenty-three women arrived at 533 Mariposa Street in downtown Hollywood armed with mops, brooms, paint buckets, rollers, sanding equipment, and wallpaper. For two months we scraped walls, replaced windows, built partitions, sanded floors, made furniture, installed lights, and renovated the… Read more »
Guest post by Brittany D. Friesner, Interim Director of IU Cinema. If you asked me one year ago how we might be commemorating the 10th anniversary of our first public screening, my answer, of course, would have included a much different vision than what we have planned this semester. However, the essential vision of the… Read more »
Guest post by Joan Hawkins, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Indiana University. The immediate post-World War II period saw an explosion of formal experimentation across the American art scene. In music, there was jazz, bop, be-bop, and rock ‘n’ roll. Classical music saw the rise of John Cage and experiments that would… Read more »
Guest post by Alyssa Brooks, IU Cinema’s Outreach and Programming Coordinator and Events and Operations Assistant. As Outreach and Programming Coordinator, I was asked to curate and develop a public program as part of IU Cinema’s spring season. There were no specific guidelines for this project, except that it should be something I’m excited about… Read more »
Guest post by Leah Marie Chizek. Postwar German art can be befuddling. In one of the more lighthearted sequences from Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s film Never Look Away (Germany, 2018), the young artist and émigré Kurt Barnert, newly arrived from East Germany, wanders the halls of the famed Düsseldorf Art Academy, where he is now… Read more »
Guest post by Sarah Knott. On a warm July evening, I was in London for the premiere of Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth. There was a sense of historical moment. The documentary can claim to be some kind of first: a filmic representation, where there had been none before, of a trans man’s story… Read more »