For three days this fall, Bloomington, Indiana will be transported to Pordenone, Italy as the IU Cinema, the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive, and the Music Scoring for Visual Media program in the Jacobs School of Music host a variety of highlights from Pordenone’s world-renowned silent-film festival Le Giornate del Cinema Muto. As if that… Read more »
Guest post by Noah Arjomand. In an age in which political and cultural boundaries are both being constantly crossed and fiercely policed, an age of polarization into seemingly unreconcilable camps, the idea of living or moving between worlds can seem at once utopian and essential. The “between worlds” idea seems to have captured imaginations—my own… Read more »
Guest post by Brittany D. Friesner, Associate Director of Indiana University Cinema. This September at IU Cinema, we’re commemorating Woman Director Awareness Month by dedicating our entire programming line-up to the creative work of women filmmakers. Running the Screen: Directed by Women is a film screening, public conversation, and masterclass series celebrating and affirming the… Read more »
Guest post by Alexander Landerman. Pressing On: The Letterpress Film is a documentary-based film, beautifully shot and produced by Bayonet Media located just north of us in lovely Indianapolis, Indiana. However, the connections to the state of Indiana and Indiana University don’t stop there. The film contains interviews with Indiana University faculty emeritus Paul Brown… Read more »
Guest post by Dr. Jeff Holdeman. Halfway around the world and 25 years ago, starting on April 7, 1994, some 800,000 to 1,000,000 Rwandans in a country of 10 million were killed by their fellow Rwandans in just 100 days. Doing the grim calculation yields an answer of 10% of the population killed at an… Read more »
Guest post by Jenny Hertel. Unconscious biases (also known as implicit biases) are social stereotypes about certain groups of people that individuals form outside their own conscious awareness. Everyone holds unconscious beliefs about various social and identity groups, and these biases stem from one’s tendency to organize social worlds by categorizing. Generally, biases are helpful… Read more »