Get to know the people behind your favorite university cinema in our new blog series, “Meet Your IU Cinema Staff.” Using the format of our exclusive filmmaker interviews — all of which can be found on our YouTube channel — we’ve crafted a questionnaire for our staff to help introduce them to you, our audience…. Read more »
Guest post by Maria Hamilton Abegunde. Unless otherwise noted, quoted lines are from Latasha N. Nevada Diggs’ poem “Maybe.” When We Gather is ritual. When you watch it, Hear the Wind. She say, Daughter, leave what wounds you. Touch the Earth. She say, Daughter, reclaim what is whole. Smell the Sea. She say, Daughter, heal…. Read more »
The Parisian surrealists of the 1920s had opinions about everything. About painting. About poetry. About politics. Their ideas came of age in the early decades of cinema so, of course, they had opinions about that too. In surrealist fashion, their taste was often capricious, categorizing directors into who was worth watching and who had succumbed… Read more »
Guest post by Lauren Richman. It is 1929 and Lee Miller (American, 1907–1977) has just settled in Paris. At only 22 years old, Miller had already lived one of what would be many remarkable lives: after a chance meeting with publisher Condé Nast, she was propelled into the fashion world, her drawn likeness appearing on… Read more »
Guest post by Ellen Starr Lyon. I am chagrined that before now, Audrey Flack has not been on my radar. I am aware of those who worked in her circles, the other realists like Robert Estes and Philip Pearlstein and the abstract expressionists: Pollock, Kline, Mitchell, and Frankenthaler. The film Queen of Hearts outlines a… Read more »
Since its inception in 2011, the Art and a Movie series, a partnership between IU Cinema and the Eskenazi Museum of Art, has done an excellent job of celebrating artists who worked in both cinema and other forms of visual art and design, among them Marcel Duchamp and Charles & Ray Eames. A fine candidate… Read more »