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The Philadelphia Cinema and Media Seminar, organized by English Department assistant professor Oliver Gaycken and supported by the Center for the Humanities at Temple, debuts this week. The Seminar arose in response to Philadelphia's rapidly growing academic film culture. It provides an opportunity for faculty and advanced graduate students from Philadelphia-area universities and colleges to share works-in-progress. A program of monthly meetings will start in the fall of 2006 and be announced on this site.
The Seminar's first formal event in Spring 2006 is the Philadelphia premiere of HOW LITTLE WE KNOW OF OUR NEIGHBOURS (dir., Rebecca Baron, 2005). The screening will take place Thursday, April 13th, from 2:30-5:30pm inRoom 3 of Annenberg Hall at Temple University's Main Campus. Timothy Corrigan, director of the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania and a former professor in the Temple English department, will introduce the film and moderate a discussion with the filmmaker following the screening.
Rebecca Baron's award-winning experimental and documentary films have been screened extensively in the US and abroad (including Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, Cinémathèque Française, Oberhausen, Viennale) Her film okay bye-bye was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial. She has also worked as a documentary film editor most notably for Pennebaker and Associates. Baron holds a B.A. from Brown University and MFA from UC San Diego. She is the recipient of a 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship.
This screening of Baron's film is associated with a weeklong festival at Temple University entitled "MEDIATING PRACTICES: New Directions in Visual Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Mediamaking" that engages the question, What next? in the arts and praxis of cultural representation. The festival includes screenings, lectures,and a daylong symposium of scholars and mediamakers. For further information, please visit: http://astro.temple.edu/~rcoover/MediatingPractices.html
Please direct questions about Rebecca Baron's visit to Oliver Gaycken: ogaycken@temple.edu.
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