Featured series 
Tag: Film
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Campus & Community
New faculty: David Joselit
David Joselit joined the department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies this semester as a professor of visual studies.
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Arts & Culture
Sundance in the spotlight
When the Sundance Film Festival begins, Harvard’s artistic talent will be well represented by Shirley Chen ’22 and Lance Oppenheim ’19.
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Arts & Culture
Photography without a camera
Matt Saunders is the incoming director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies
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Arts & Culture
Bringing ‘Coco’ to campus
Harvard’s Office for the Arts will welcome producer Darla Anderson and cultural consultant Marcela Davison Aviles for a conversation about their work on the Academy Award-winning Pixar film “Coco.”
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Campus & Community
Voicing their differences
The student group 21 Colorful Crimson performs a mix of covers and originals, with hopes of eventually recording an album of their own material.
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Arts & Culture
Seeing things Wiseman’s way
Harvard will welcome a trio of filmmaking greats for this year’s Norton Lectures, including legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman.
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Arts & Culture
Emily Dickinson, on the screen
Terence Davies, director of the new Emily Dickinson biopic “A Quiet Passion” talks with The Gazette about his challenges in making movies, his artistic kinship with Dickinson, and what drew him to her deeply internal, isolated life.
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Arts & Culture
‘Moonlight’ reflection
Composer-pianist Nicholas Britell ’03 will celebrate with Harvard friends this weekend as his score for “Moonlight” competes for the Oscar for best original score.
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Arts & Culture
In 10,000 years, we’ll know how it ends
Peter Galison and Robb Moss’ documentary “Containment” is an unflinching look at the challenges of nuclear waste disposal.
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Arts & Culture
‘Losing Sight, But Gaining a Vision’
Gloria Hong ’15 won the Grand Jury Prize at the Girls Impact the World Film Festival for her short documentary, “Losing Sight, But Gaining a Vision” The film was made while Hong was enrolled in “African and African American Studies 109,” taught by Joanna Lipper.
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Arts & Culture
Ukraine comes into focus on film
Harvard Library is sponsoring a series of films by Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa in conjunction with its exhibit “Lives of the Great Patriotic War.” The film series continues Nov. 15 and 17. The exhibit is open through Nov. 26 at the Pusey Library.
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Arts & Culture
Tracking Fritz Lang
The Harvard Film Archive is celebrating the work of Fritz Lang with a retrospective running through Sept. 1.
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Campus & Community
Filmmaker Robert Gardner, 88
Robert Gardner ’48, A.M. ’58, the noted anthropological filmmaker who founded the Peabody Museum’s Film Study Center, died of cardiac arrest at the age of 88.
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Arts & Culture
The leadership of Cesar
Mexican actor Diego Luna came to town to premiere his latest film, “Cesar Chavez,” to the Harvard community before its nationwide release. The film marks Luna’s directorial debut.
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Arts & Culture
Calling the Oscars
For the past three years, a Harvard College junior has employed statistics and percentages to predict many winners at the Academy Awards.
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Arts & Culture
Oscar winner Matt Damon on his Harvard years
Actor Matt Damon, former Harvard College student and winner of the 2013 Harvard Arts Medal, talks of his time on campus, his lifelong desire to be an actor, and how a College playwriting course assignment later turned into the Academy Award-winning screenplay for “Good Will Hunting.”
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Science & Tech
Perfecting digital imaging
Despite advances, the best software and video cameras cannot seem to get computer-generated images and digital film to look exactly the way our eyes expect them to. Harvard’s Hanspeter Pfister and Todd Zickler are working to narrow the gap between “virtual” and “real” by asking the question: How do we see what we see?
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Arts & Culture
Every stitch of Hitch
In a summer retrospective, the Harvard Film Archive is presenting all of Alfred Hitchcock’s feature films and nine of his silent movies. Starting July 11, the series runs through Sept. 28.
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Campus & Community
A break for exploration
For the hundreds of students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, January offered a chance to let their hair down and explore topics they might otherwise never contemplate, from questions of race in Quentin Tarantino’s films to the production of nano-materials to fabricating a hand-crank generator.
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Nation & World
‘A Whisper to a Roar’ sparks discussion
Panelists convened at the Harvard Kennedy School on Monday to discuss individuals’ motivations to risk their lives to fight for democracy.
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Campus & Community
Film Study Center offers fellowships
The Film Study Center (FSC) at Harvard University offers fellowships for the production of original film, video, photographic, and phonographic projects.
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Arts & Culture
Girls who rock out
A film and a discussion at Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library highlight Girls Rock Camp, which teaches girls and young women during summer sessions to find their inner musicians, shed some inhibitions, and celebrate themselves.
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Arts & Culture
Lincoln’s dimensions
Screenwriter and playwright Tony Kushner sat down with President Drew Faust to dissect Abraham Lincoln’s legacy and talk history, politics, and writing after a Harvard-sponsored screening of his new biopic, “Lincoln.”
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Science & Tech
When the sky turned black
Director Ken Burns presented clips of his new documentary on the Dust Bowl at Harvard’s Boylston Hall, talking about the creative process that he uses in his films.
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Arts & Culture
Visions of doom
A pair of Harvard events looked at the artistic legacy of Pompeii — a kind of “Apocalypse Then.”
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Campus & Community
Helen Whitney to deliver Noble Lectures
Award-winning producer, director, and writer Helen Whitney will deliver this year’s William Belden Noble Lectures at the Memorial Church.
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Arts & Culture
Words from Wiseman
The dean of American direct cinema, 81-year-old Frederick Wiseman, offers a summary of his documentary shooting and editing techniques.
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Campus & Community
Film Forum to host Gardner retrospective
The Film Forum in New York City will host a one-week retrospective of documentarian and ethnographer Robert Gardner’s influential films from Nov. 11 to Nov. 17.
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Campus & Community
New York Times columnist wins Goldsmith
New York Times op-ed columnist Frank Rich will receive the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism as part of the annual Goldsmith Awards Ceremony.
