Deutsches Haus at NYU and New York University School of Law present a talk by the Hauser Distinguished Global Fellow, Justice Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Susanne Baer, LL.M. on "Judging Matters. The Constitutional Court in Context," followed by a conversation with Dr. Christian Martin. With the rule of law and democracy under pressure in many settings, constitutional law becomes more important…
Industrial cinema in post WWII Italy aimed to present industrial facilities as active producers of wealth, development and democracy for the new Italian Republic. In particular, it wished to present Italian technical know-how and heavy industry as a young dynamic State, opposed to the traditional imagery of Italy as a sedated, immobilized country. Combining the style of old fascist propaganda with a more experimental language, industrial or corporate cinema established…
Conversation on the exhibit Miradas Paralelas/Parallel Looks. Iran-Spain: Photographers in the Mirror with curator Zara Fernández; photographers Soledad Córdoba (Spain) and Gohar Dashti (Iran); and Carmen Fernández-Távora, deputy director of the Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation. The discussion will be in English and Spanish, with simultaneous interpretation in both languages. “Miradas Paralelas (Parallel Looks). Iran-Spain: Photographers in the Mirror,” curated by Zara Fernández…
Please join the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University for a screening of the film Love Me (2013) as part of the Fall 2018 Olena Yershova Retrospective Film Series at Columbia. Professor Yuri Shevchuk will introduce the film and moderate the discussion. Love Me is directed by Maryna Er Horbach (Ukraine) and Mehmed Bahadir Er (Turkey). A Turkish man travels to Kyiv for his bachelor party before he is…
Phantom Kino Ballett is a multidisciplinary performance by Lena Willikens and Sarah Szczesny. Club elements like strobe lights, electronic music and smoke machines are combined with quotations from movie scenes, interview extracts, and spoken word in an audiovisual collage. An experimental music video serves as a medial extension of the cinema experience. The project’s processual character develops through the interaction of costumes, sculptural interpretations…