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Looking forward to celebrating with YOU
at the Michigan Theater THIS FRIDAY, April 29, at 4PM! 
Graduates, please ensure your guests are
aware of the Michigan's COVID policy -- 
and check your inbox for an email re: important graduation details!

Please note that doors open at 3:30 - an early arrival is recommended. 
FTVM WN 2022 END-OF-TERM EVENTS AND NEWS
Don't Miss the Michigan Theater Premiere of FTVM 423's PWI and Révérence 

Please join us at the Michigan Theater on Monday, May 2, 2022, at 6:00 PM for the premiere of the FTVM 423 films PWI and Révérence 
PWI - The night of their graduation, three friends look back on their time at their university and how their identities as Black women shaped their experiences.

Révérence - When a prestigious dance school is burned to the ground with the headmaster found dead inside, a detective must unravel a series of events to determine if there is a murder within the school’s conservatory. 
FTVM Congratulates the Winter 2022 FTVM 150 Audiovisual Essay Festival Winners!
Back row (L - R), Reyna Hughes, Ivan Kuhn, Dan Gutenberg, Alexandria Davis, Aidan Conway, Joel Huang
Front row, Professors Yeidy M. Rivero and Johannes von Moltke

The FTVM 150 Audiovisual Essay Festival showcases the hard work, critical acumen, and creativity that went into FTVM 150 students' final capstone projects, in which each student made an original critical argument in audiovisual essay form about a selected film or television episode that was studied in the course. Winners in a number of categories were selected by a vote of the enrolled students in attendance and a panel of judges. This year's Best of Festival Award went to Reyna Hughes for her essay,  "Moonee's Mise-en-Scene: Poverty Through a Childhood Lens." 
Best of Festival
Reyna Hughes, "Moonee's Mise-en-Scene: Poverty Through a Childhood Lens"
Best Use of Sound Mixing & Editing
Ivan Kuhn, "What Makes Never Alone so Special?"

Best Use of Text
Dan Gutenberg, "Social Credit: An Ethical Irony" 

Best Editing
Joel Huang, "Guilty Innocent: The Floriday Project

Most Entertaining
Anto Clarke, "A Digital Panopticon: An Analysis of New Media" 

Most Original Argument
Anto Clarke, "A Digital Panopticon: An Analysis of New Media" 

Special Commendation: Most Socially Relevant Essay
Alexandria Davis, "Moonlight: Colored Genderism" 

Special Commendation: Most Thoroughly Researched Essay
Aidan Conway, "'The Gay Best Friend' of High Maintenance"
FTVM Congratulates the Winter 2022 Lightworks Festival Winners!
Presented by FTVM's student organization FVSA (Film and Video Student Association),
the Lightworks Festival provides a venue for students to present their end-of-term production coursework
to classmates, family, and friends.
If you missed the festival, you can watch it online here:
Lightworks, Night One
 Lightworks Night Two

Winter 2022 Lightworks Festival winners are listed below. 
Animation
Best Animation - The Wanderer - Dir. Eric Stillman
Animation Runner-up - Smile - Dir. Johannes Pardi

Cinematography
Best Cinematography - Révérence - Dir. Amira Salloum
Cinematography Runner-up - Cowboy - Dir. Jocelyn Brown

Comedy
Best Comedy - Cowboy - Dir. Jocelyn Brown
Comedy Runner-up - Summer Camp - Dir. Bosco Gonzalez 
Comedy Runner-up - Liz and Allie Summon a Demon - Dir. Max Satin

Drama
Best DramaWonderful - Dir. Jacob Shin 
Drama Runner-up - PWI - Dir. Julia Gray
Drama Runner-up - Heirlooms - Dir. Max Satin 

Editing
Best Editing - Wonderful - Dir. Jacob Shin 
Editing Runner-up - Escape Time - Dir. Max Brown and Noah Wing 

Experimental
Best Experimental - 3 Words - Dir. Alyssa Huang 
Experimental Runner-up - Drew, Roo, Number Two - Dir. Megan Lindeboom

Music Video 
Best Music Video - Wellgivit - Dir. Lindsay Adams
Music Video Runner-up - Transmission - Dir. Keaira Hardge

Original Score
Best Original Score - Cowboy - Dir. Jocelyn Brown
Original Score Runner-up - Révérence - Dir. Amira Salloum

Sound Design 
Best Sound Design - Drew, Roo, Number Two - Dir. Megan Lindeboom
Sound Design Runner-upWonderful - Dir. Jacob Shin 

FTVM Judges' Honorable Mentions: 
Mary Lou Chlipala, Wonderful - Dir. Jacob Shin - the scene with the two young women on a park bench 
Paul Sutherland, Atlantis - Dir. Sawyer Rewa
Sean Donovan, Against the Cold - Dir. Margaret Rudnick 
THIS WEEK'S NEWS 
Professor Johannes von Moltke Presents at Virtual Conferences, Co-Produces Staged Reading of Cyanide, and Publishes Work for Rockefeller Archive Center
Professor von Moltke has been busy on the virtual conference circuit in recent weeks, presenting first at SCMS (in a panel devoted to Siegfried Kracauer, sponsored by the Film Philosophy SIG), and more recently at an Austrian Studies Conference hosted by the Institute of European Studies at Berkeley. The conference was devoted to Far-Right Politics in Austria, Europe, and the United States, and von Moltke spoke on “Media Cultures of the New Right.”

Closer to home, and in person, von Moltke recently teamed up with colleagues in the German Department and director Malcolm Tulip from the School of Theater, Music, and Dance to produce a staged reading of Cyanide, the first ever English-language presentation of Friedrich Wolf’s impassioned 1929 play Cyankali about worker’s and abortion rights. Seven amazing student actors from SMTD brought this play to life in the most compelling ways, drawing out the echoes that haunt the near century since its premiere in Weimar Germany.
Finally, von Moltke's work, "Siegfried Kracauer’s New York Networks" was recently published in The Rockefeller Archive Center Collection (April 20, 2022). 
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Tanite Chahwan
for Receiving the Rackham International Research Award
PhD Candidate Tanite Chahwan recently received the Rackham International Research Award. The RIRA supports doctoral and master’s students conducting degree-related research outside the United States and Puerto Rico. Tanite will be travelling to Lebanon and Egypt this summer to conduct research for her thesis, "Modern Sphinxes: Nasser, Melodrama, and Other Egyptian Film Stars."
Tanite studies the Egyptian film industry in the 1950s, specifically how national film stars became “modern sphinxes,” having the duty to represent the nation and protect its mostly religious and cultural morality within melodramatic bounds. 
PhD Candidate Vincent Longo Wins Research Grant from American Heritage Center
The University of Wyoming's American Heritage Center awarded PhD candidate Vincent Longo one of their 2022 American Heritage Center Research Grants. The award will fund Longo's travel to Laramie, Wyoming, to continue his research on African American jazz performers and their effects on movie theater segregation policies from 1930 to 1950. Congratulations, Vincent!
FTVM 603 Grad Students Publish Work and Win Accolades! 

Two UM Graduate students who attended the Film/Media Historiography seminar (FTVM 603) in, respectively, Winter 2020 and Winter 2021, are making waves with the work done for the class. Congratulations to both of you!

Natalie Ngai, doctoral student in Communication, first published her research essay as “The Mother of a Famous Child: The Media Representation of Shirley Temple’s ‘Mother’ in Hollywood, 1934-1940,” in Susan Liddy and Anne O’Brien eds., Media Work, Mothers and Motherhood: Negotiating the International Audio-Visual Industry (Routledge, 2021), 63-76. The essay recently won the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) 2022 Best Doctoral Article or Chapter.


Tanya Silverman, doctoral student in Slavic, submitted a reworked version of her seminar essay to the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. It is now forthcoming with the title "Miloš Forman and Ivan Passer: Bohemians in 1970s New York City.” 
THIS WEEK'S FEATURED PHOTOS
FTVM Honors Students Kate Glad and Mitchell Salley Present Honors Projects
photos courtesy of Mary Lou Chlipala
 
FTVM Honors Student Kate Glad (bottom left) presented a staged reading of her screenplay
The Manner of Women on April 20, 2022, in North Quad's studio A. 
 FTVM Honors Student Mitchell Salley (top right) screened his half-hour thriller Darlings
and hosted a Q&A at the Michigan Theater on April 19, 2002. 
Congratulations to both of you on your amazing work! 
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