Tag: Filmmaking

  • Nation & World

    From the Everglades to Tribeca

    Harvard junior Lance Oppenheim will premiere his latest documentary, “The Happiest Guy in the World,” at the Tribeca Film Festival.

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    A movie as a mirror

    Three young Harvard alumni explain the genesis and the process of their making the hit film “Whiplash.”

    4 minutes
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    The introspective Laurie Anderson

    Performance artist Laurie Anderson delved into her inspirations and motivations as she gave the Music Department’s Louis C. Elson Lecture.

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    Bearing witness to Uganda

    The A.R.T. of Human Rights, a yearlong series, kicked off at the Oberon theater with a discussion about gay rights in Uganda.

    4 minutes
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    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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    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.

    4 minutes
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    Harvard grad awarded Fulbright

    Harvard graduate Alexander J. Berman ’10 has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarship to Russia in filmmaking, the Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced recently.

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    Film as social change

    Two-day panel at the Center for Public Leadership examines the shifting role of film as a vehicle for social change, with new technologies creating fresh insights.

    4 minutes
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    Building an arts bridge

    Arts Bridge is an initiative developed by recent alumni in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Now current students in the program are teaching kids from Allston and Brighton how to make their own films.

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