Though certain filmmakers have been making films for personal reasons, rather than institutional or financial ones, since the days of silent cinema, this tendency toward authorial independence only began to coalesce into a bonafide artistic movement in the United States during the 1940s – the decade in which American filmmakers like Maya Deren and Kenneth… Read more »
In the past few years that I’ve been at IU I’ve had the opportunity to see movies on several formats at the IU Cinema. I’ve always been interested in how exactly the IU Cinema gets its hands on such a wide variety of materials. In order to learn a bit more about the process, I… Read more »
Well, the day is here—we knew it would eventually come. The day when an organization loses one of its key members, one who has been there from the beginning, shaping what would follow. What followed was the building and opening of the IU Cinema, in all of its glory. The key member is Manny Knowles,… Read more »