Mondays, 7–9pm
ACT Cube
Wiener Building (E15-001)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, USA
Free and open to the public
T +1 617 253 5229
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Desire for cinema perhaps existed before its creation. Today, cinema can be thought as the umbrella term for the variety of moving images and time-based forms that currently circulate and which have intersecting, yet specific, histories of emergence. These encompass the changing technological and spatial forms themselves—from collective halls to handheld devices—in which cinema appears, as well as the movement and interpretation of cinemas throughout the world. Cinematic Migrations is a multi-faceted look at the role of cinema’s transmutations over time and its worldwide and circuitous shifts.
The terms “global” and “identity,” with their ubiquitous uses, can no longer be assumed to have definitive substance or recognizable meaning. Lecturers and guests participating in this series will examine these terms in different ways, along with their own explorations.
Renée Green
Director and Associate Professor
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Lecture Series Schedule
October 15, 2012
Affects and emotions for a non-capitalist cinema
Jesal Kapadia, ACT Lecturer
October 29, 2012
Reconsidering Handsworth Songs
Screening and discussion with:
John Akomfrah, OBE, director, filmmaker, and writer, Smoking Dogs Films, UK
Lina Gopaul, producer and writer, Smoking Dogs Films, UK
Renée Green, Free Agent Media and ACT Director and Associate Professor
November 5, 2012
Recent Projects: Ant Farm Media Van v.08 [Time Capsule] and To & From LAX
Chip Lord, Professor Emeritus, Film & Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz
November 19, 2012
The Militant Image: A Ciné-Geography
Ros Gray, Lecturer, Critical Studies, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
November 26, 2012
Creative Geographies: Video beyond the Global Village
Krista Lynes, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies Department
Concordia University in Montreal, Canada
Note about Cinematic Migrations
Cinematic Migrations is a two-year collaborative research project initiated by Renée Green (Free Agent Media) and is co-hosted by the MIT Visiting Artists Program and ACT. The work of filmmaker John Akomfrah and producer Lina Gopaul (Smoking Dogs Films, and founding members of the seminal UK-based Black Audio Film Collective) is a focal point in our investigation of the theme.
For further information, contact ACT Public Programs Coordinator Laura Anca Chichisan at [email protected] or 617 253 4415.
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, E15-212
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
