4 Session Class Archives

The Portrait at 24 Frames Per Second

The portrait has a storied history in visual art, but how does this art form carry over into movies? In this four-week class, we’ll watch some of the great works […]

Movie Magic: Witches in the Cinema

Join us as we explore the ever-evolving portrayal of witches and witchcraft in cinema. We’ll examine themes of power, persecution, and female autonomy through a diverse range of films. In […]

Anti-Fascist Film

In this four week class, we’ll watch films that both depict anti-fascism in action, and embody what it means to be anti-fascist cinema, in terms of how the ideology of […]

The Directrices

Female filmmakers are often regarded as a modern phenomenon, but in fact the directrix was an integral part of early film history. Directrices are responsible for the development of narrative […]

Poet. Essayist. Novelist. Screenwriter. Director. Catholic. Marxist. Pervert. One of the key public intellectuals of post-war Italy, Pier Paolo Pasolini is known for his many, and often controversial, contributions to […]

KINO KINO KINO! A Guy Maddin Overview

Guy Maddin has been crafting delusional folktales for the last 40 years. Using silent-era film aesthetics, highlighting the absurd and the taboo, and imbuing a cunning humor into his work, […]

Absent Narratives: Black Queer Love

Queer films have come a long way since the inception of filmmaking. We have a growing number of films to choose from and more LGBTQ+ directors, writers, and actors are […]

Mind Control: Possession, Surveillance, and the Tech-Noir Subgenre

Get your mind right for two films that explore identity, autonomy, and the human condition with a dystopian tech-noir lens. We’ll start with Brandon Cronenberg’s film about a professional assassin […]

Thrill Seekers Anonymous

In your daily movie-watching, have you found yourself drawn to films promising mystery and intrigue, oftentimes paired with seductive undertones or chilling violence? If so, this four-week course may be […]

Twentieth Century Trauma: Post-Cold War Eastern European Films

Filmmakers in the Eastern Bloc had to walk a fine line between pleasing the government censors and making films that were authentic and meaningful. The filmmakers of this era were […]