Film Screening of Ruth Kaaserer’s “Gwendolyn”

Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street), New York, United States

Screening details This event will recur Every Day until Nov. 8, 2018. Ruth Kaaserer is the recipient of the 2017 Erste Bank's ExtraVALUE Film Award, which she received for Gwendolyn at the 2017 Viennale. On the occasion of her residency at Deutsches Haus at NYU, Deutsches Haus co-presents together with Anthology Film Archives, Erste Bank, and the Austrian Cultural Forum two screenings of Gwendolyn (2017), on Wednesday, November 7,…

Experimental films by Aykan Safoğlu & Sylvia Schedel. Queer Migrations & Diasporic Intimacies Series

Michelson Theater 721 Broadway, 6th floor, New York, NY, United States

STILL FROM MEMORIES (SYLVIA SCHEDELBAUER, GERMANY/JAPAN, 2004) Experimental films by Aykan Safoğlu & Sylvia Schedelbauer Wednesday, November 7 at 6:00 pm Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th floor Aykan Safoğlu (Germany/Turkey) and Sylvia Schedelbauer (Germany/Japan) present a selection of their archival footage films encompassing a Turkish homage to James Baldwin and a retrieval of unremembered interracial intimacy. Working across film, photography and performance, Aykan Safoğlu makes…

Film Series: Blackness in French and Francophone Film

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

A Film Series Presented by the Columbia Maison Française, co-sponsored by School of the Arts and curated by Nora Philippe with the participation of Maboula Soumahoro Films are free and open to the public. Subtitles are in English. France doesn’t have an equivalent word for speaking about “blackness” and has just removed the word “race” from its Constitution. However, a…

Far from Us [Via da noi]

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

(Enrico Ventrice, 2018) Via da noi (Documentary, Italy, 53 min.) In ENGLISH and ITALIAN with English subtitles Produced by Global Vision Group in collaboration with Rai Cinema A film by Elena A. Perazzini Directed by Enrico Ventrice Followed by a conversation with Elena A. Perazzini. Moderated by Paolo Pellecchia (CUNY). With the participation of Gianluca Galletto (DG Advisors), scientist Alessandra…

Film: Steps to Liberty (Les Marches de la Liberté)

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

A film by Rokhaya Diallo (2013, 52 min.) Screening followed by a discussion with Fredrick Harris, Nora Philippe and Maboula Soumahoro Fifty years after the Civil Rights March in Washington DC and the “dream” of Martin Luther King, thirty years after the “March for Equality and against Racism” in France, Diallo follows a group of young Americans who come to…

Mamma Roma

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

In conjunction with the exhibition NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960 Mamma Roma (Italy, 1962, 110 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini Starring Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo Introduced by Rebecca Falkoff, NYU. Anna Magnani is Mamma Roma, a middle-aged prostitute who attempts to extricate herself from her sordid past for her son’s sake. An unflinching…

Film: Summer in the City

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City, NY, United States

With an introduction by Damion Searls, whose translation into English of Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries recently was published by New York Review Books -- German writer Uwe Johnson (1934-1984) lived on Manhattan’s Upper West Side for several years in the 1960s. The publisher Harcourt Brace had hired him as a textbook editor for their German-language school book editions, which allowed him to stay in…

Film: The Country Upside Down (Le Pays à l’envers)

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

A film by Sylvaine Dampierre (2009, 90 min.). Screening followed by Q&A with director Sylvaine Dampierre, Kim Hall, and Nora Philippe. To view the trailer, click here. This is part of the film series "Blackness in French and Francophone Film" organized by the Columbia Maison Française and co-sponsored by the School of the Arts. In this personal journey through the memory…

Film: Ouaga Girls

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

A film by Theresa Traore Dahlberg (2016, 80 min.). Screening followed by Q&A with director Theresa Traore Dahlberg, Abosede George, and Nora Phliippe To RSVP, please click here. To view the trailer, click here. Part of the film series "Blackness in French and Francophone Film" organized by the Columbia Maison Française and co-sponsored by the School of the Arts. A group of…

Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice)

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Giuseppe De Santis (1949) In conjunction with the exhibition NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960 Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice) (Italy, 1949, 109 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Giuseppe De Santis Starring Silvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling Introduced by Jenny McPhee, NYU. In Northern Italy’s Po Valley, an earthy rice-field worker (Silvana Mangano) falls in with a…