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On Tuesday December 7, The Archive Project hosts the return of Cinema alum, filmmaker, and curator Craig Baldwin in "Gems from the SFSU Cinema Vault: Curator/Filmmaker Craig Baldwin." In addition to his own prolific body of experimental films, Craig Baldwin has played an integral role in establishing an independent film scene in San Francisco.
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Undergraduate Advising Coordinator News
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Cinema Students,
As you may know, the Spring class schedule goes online Monday, November 15. I'm sure many of you have questions about planning your schedule. Please join me to learn about the Cinema major/minor pathway and get your questions answered:
Topic: Cinema Spring Registration Open Session
Time: Thu, Nov 18, 2021 - 2:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Zoom Link: https://sfsu.zoom.us/j/88995612474?pwd=SUFILzJiMndxMjhWNWgrUmlmTUNNdz09
Meeting ID: 889 9561 2474
Passcode: spring
As always, feel free to check in one-on-one with your faculty advisor:
https://www.cinema.sfsu.edu/content/advisors
And if I don't see you before then, enjoy your Fall Break!
Scott Boswell
Associate Professor // Undergraduate Advising Coordinator
Schedule an Appointment
Pronouns: he/him
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SFSU COVID-19 News and Cinema Responses
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Please go to this link for up to date campus operation communications during the Covid-19 crisis: news.sfsu.edu/covid-19
Please go to this link to see the SFSU CINEMA responses to the COVID-19 health crisis: cinema.sfsu.edu
Please check the SFSU's Campus Comeback website for the latest updates on reopening.
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SFSU Student Resources
During this Public Health Crises
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You can find information about using the Hope Crisis Fund or donating to it at:
https://dos.sfsu.edu/content/sf-state-hope-fund-crisis-loan-application
Helpful resources are also located in this page maintained by the ARC, including information about the basic needs, the food pantry and short term loans:
https://advisinglca.sfsu.edu/content/student-resources
STUDENTS WHO ARE U.S. CITIZENS OR GREEN CARD HOLDERS, WHO HAVE LOST THEIR JOBS, PART-TIME OR FULL-TIME, CAN NOW APPLY FOR UNEMPLOYMENT FROM THE GOVERNMENT:
https://www.edd.ca.gov/unemployment/filing_a_claim.htm
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2020 MFA COHORT, FIRST YEAR FILM SHOWCASE
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Please join the 2020 MFA cohort for their first-year film screening in the Coppola Theater on Friday, November 19th at 6 PM. All attendees must complete the SFSU health screening or show proof of vaccination.
For those who cannot attend in person, the first-year films will be accessible through a Vimeo showcase. The showcase will go live on 11/19 at 6 PM and will remain available for one week. Please follow this link to access the online showcase.
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ANNOUNCING THE FALL 2021 MARCUS CULMINATING AWARD RECIPIENTS: LOTTIE PACHECO AND JESSICA SCHLEGEL
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Lottie Pacheco
The School of Cinema Scholarship Committee is happy to announce the Fall 2021 recipients of the Marcus Culminating Awards, BA candidate Lottie Pacheco and MFA candidate Jessica Schlegel. Lottie’s thesis film, Finding Francine, was lauded by the Committee as "a highly creative exploration of the changing nature of San Francisco that takes an intersectional and psychological approach to storytelling." The Committee honored Jessica’s MFA thesis project, Intended Mother, as "an impactful and significant project that challenges conventional representations of motherhood and family through a nuanced perspective that brings race and class into consideration.” Congratulations to Lottie and Jessica!
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WINTER 2022 SESSION COURSES:
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MIHAELA MIHAILOVA'S EDITED VOLUME ON HENRY SELICK'S 2009 STOP-MOTION FILM CORALINE JUST GOT PUBLISHED
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Assistant Professor Mihaela Mihailova has just published her edited volume on Henry Selick's 2009 stop-motion film Coraline, titled Coraline: A Closer Look at Studio LAIKA's Stop-Motion Witchcraft as part of Bloomsbury Academic's "Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers" series. This collection brings together an international group of practitioners and scholars to examine Coraline's place in animation history and culture, dissect its politics, and unpack its role in the technological and aesthetic development of its medium. More broadly, it celebrates stop motion as a unique and enduring artform while embracing its capacity to evolve in response to cultural, political, and technological changes, as well as shifting critical and audience demands.
The website for the book is here
She also published two pieces in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61.1 (Fall 2021). Her article titled "Studio Melnitsa's Bogatyr Cycle: Notes on a Global Approach to Contemporary Studio Animation" is dedicated to contemporary Russian studio animation and appears in a special animation-themed In Focus dossier, edited by Ryan Pierson.
She co-wrote (with Cristina Formenti and Timothy Jones) a spotlight article reflecting on the philosophy and activities of the Animated Media Scholarly Interest Group (which she used to co-chair).
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ELIZABETH RAMIREZ-SOTO TALKS ABOUT UNFINISHED PROJECTS BY WOMEN FILMMAKERS IN 1970s LATIN AMERICA
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What can an unfinished film project tell us about women’s filmmaking practices during a revolutionary period? How can we make scattered documents “speak” for historiographical purposes? What stories do these documents tell us about feminist collaborative practices? These are some of the questions that Prof. Ramírez-Soto will address in her talk “Ensayando feminismos: Cineastas mujeres en la Unidad Popular,” in which she will examine an omnibus film that was never made and was to be directed by three women filmmakers during Salvador Allende’s government in Chile (1970-1973).
The conference will take place on Monday, November 22, at 2pm PT. Hosted by the MA in Cinema Studies of the Instituto de Estética at Universidad Católica de Chile. This talk will be in Spanish.
Register here for the talk.
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PROFESSOR JOSEPH McBRIDE HAS RECORDED AUDIO COMMENTARIES FOR THE UPCOMING KINO LORBER 4KUHD EDITION OF SOME LIKE IT HOT AND THE APARTMENT
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Professor Joseph McBride, whose critical study BILLY WILDER: DANCING ON THE EDGE was published on October 26 by Columbia University Press, has recorded audio commentaries for the upcoming Kino Lorber 4KUHD editions of the Wilder classics SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) and THE APARTMENT (1960). McBride is currently teaching a course on Wilder and his mentor, Ernst Lubitsch.
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RAFAEL FLORES HONORED WITH CALIFORNIA ARTS COUNCIL LEGACY ARTIST AWARD
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Lecturer Rafael Flores has recently been awarded the 2021 Legacy Fellowship Grant by the California Arts Council for his films and educational program empowering communities of color in the state of California for over 10 years. He was also recently awarded large grants by The California Endowment and The San Francisco Foundation for his Hidden GEM career training program to advance Black and Brown youth in Oakland, and he was recently interviewed by Production Hub about the importance of diversifying the film industry. He is now headed to New York at (with SF State Cinema alumni Orlando Torres, his location sound recordist) because of his new web series titled "The Black And Brown Poet Series" featuring U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus, Juan Felipe Herrera, has been nominated for the Best New Media Award at the 2021 Official Latino Film Festival.
Link to Official Announcement
Link to Article
Link to Nomination Announcement
Attached is a still photo from the "Black and Brown Poet Series", Feat. Juan Felipe Herrera, the first Latino Poet Laureate of the U.S.A.
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SFSU's JEWISH STUDIES PRESENTED A PANEL FEATURING ADAM MANSBACH, THE SCREENWRITER FOR BARRY. AND THE SCHOOL OF CINEMA'S DIRECTOR AARON KERNER.
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Image from Barry, Vikram Gandhi, 2008
On November 3rd the Department of Jewish Studies presented a panel featuring, Adam Mansbach, the screenwriter for Barry (a Barak Obama bio-pic, during his college days). School Director, Aaron Kerner was among the invited panelists. It was a lively and humorous conversation, largely focusing on the intersections of race and Jewishness. Mansbach is perhaps best known for his parent-manual Go the F**ck To Sleep. Mansbach confirmed that Samuel L. Jackson performed his favorite reading of Go the F**ck To Sleep.
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CINEMA ALUM ALFONSO ALVAREZ (MA 93) AT THE ROXIE THEATER
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Canyon at The Roxie returns November 23rd with a spotlight on Bay Area filmmaker and expanded cinema artist Alfonso Alvarez (MA Cinema, 1993). Assembling 25 years of multi-projector media-making with live musical accompaniment, this presentation will mark the first indoor screening of work in over two years. In collaboration with media makers Suki O’Kane (sukiokane.com), Steven Dye (dyemark.net), and The Special Musical Guests, Alfonso will present old and new work that spans the use of found footage, optical printing and hand-processing. He and his crew will gather down in the front of the theater and build a small village of projectors and musical instruments for this screening. His crew recognizes that among many factors that have kept us from gathering, the pandemic has had a huge impact on cinema and live performance. Social distancing notwithstanding, the audience is encouraged to come close and gather around the light and sound.
More information, and ticket info HERE.
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SFSU CINEMA ALUMS IN THE TRANSGENDER FILM FESTIVAL
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Two SFSU Cinema alums are among the filmmakers featured in the 2021 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival. Since 1997, this festival has screened "films that promote the visibility of transgender and gender variant people and challenge the mainstream media’s negative stereotypes of our communities." Filmmaker Ray Rea (MFA, '99) screened their film, Keep The Brights On (2021), a documentary about transgender people who choose to live in rural areas. Rea is also the founder and director of the Fargo/Moorhead LGBT Film Festival, and a professor of Cinema at Minnesota State University. Filmmaker Ash Verwiel (BA, '21) screened their film Unboxing (2021), an experimental documentary that explores identity, place, and personal history through artifacts and memento.
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On Tuesday November 16, The Archive Project curator and alumna Diana Sanchez and Cinema student Lottie Pacheco, together with The Queer Cinema Project, will present "A Conversation with the Bay Area Lesbian Archive.” The Bay Area Lesbian Archives preserves lesbian history of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area and makes it accessible to the public. Their collections emphasize the lives and activism of courageous everyday lesbians who found ways to live open and authentic lives— from oral histories, memorabilia, posters and BALA founder Lenn Keller’s films and photography.
Here is the link to register for this free event, accessible on Zoom:
The Archive Project - A Conversation with the Bay Area Lesbian Archives
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On Tuesday December 7, The Archive Project hosts the return of Cinema alum, filmmaker, and curator Craig Baldwin in "Gems from the SFSU Cinema Vault: Curator/Filmmaker Craig Baldwin." In addition to his own prolific body of experimental films, Baldwin has played an integral role in establishing an independent film scene in San Francisco. His weekly film screening series, Other Cinema, promotes the work of both emerging and established artists working in new cinematic paradigms. Baldwin and members of The Archive Project will show rare and rarely seen films from the School's own archives, highlighting our student and artist films collection.
Here is the link to register for this free event, accessible on Zoom:
The Archive Project - Gems from the Cinema Vault with Craig Baldwin
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School of Cinema Events on Vimeo
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To the School of Cinema,
Over the past year The School of Cinema has hosted webinars on a myriad of subjects related to our diverse curriculum. All of these webinars are available for viewing on our Vimeo website at the Showcase:
SFSU Cinema School Events
Password: SFSUCinemaEvents
There is something for everyone and we hope you will avail yourselves to these recordings in the coming months.
Artie Farkas
Technical Lead
SFSU School of Cinema
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ONLINE TOUR WITH CINEMA TECHNICAL STAFF
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Dear Prospective Students:
The School of Cinema is offering online tours every Tuesday from 2:30-3:30p.m. You will have the opportunity to hear about our facilities, studios, equipment and meet our technical staff.
Zoom link here
Arthur Farkas: TECHNOLOGY COORDINATOR
Pablo Riquelme: PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
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FEMINIST FILMMAKER FELLOWSHIP (F3) - ACTING OPPORTUNITY
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The Feminist Filmmaker Fellowship (F3) aims to provide an open and safe space, virtual or in-person, advocating for womxn and non-binary filmmakers. Our events allow leadership development to flourish by listening to members to help bring their ideas to life. We are currently in pre-production for “Adelita”, and looking for actors. If interested in acting for this project fill out this form.
Club meetings are Tuesdays from 4-5 pm in person and on Zoom Meeting ID: 84707855624 Password: 597174.
Follow us on Instagram @feministfilmmakerfellowship for all our updates and to help us make some films.
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November 15
Last day for withdrawal, student initiated (online)
November 15
Spring 2022 class schedule goes online
November 16
Archive Project event - A Conversation with the BAY AREA LESBIAN ARCHIVES (BALA), 6 p.m.
November 22-24
Fall Recess; No classes; Offices open
November 25-27
Fall Recess, No Classes/ Campus Closed
November 29
Priority Registration for Spring begins
December 6
Artel Great's "Black Film Culture", 6 p.m.
December 7
Archive Project event - Gems from the SFSU Cinema Vault: Curator/Filmmaker Craig Baldwin, 6 p.m.
December 10
Last day of Instruction & last day for students to complete SETE’s
December 10
Students may choose CR/NC options through today, 11:59 p.m.
December 11
Final Exams
December 24 - January 3/2022
Winter Recess, No Classes/ Campus Closed
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