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CMP Open House: Tuesday, Oct. 25 at 5:30 p.m.

  • Publication date October 12, 2016

CMP_Openhouse_smThere will be an informational meeting for students about the PhD Secondary Field degree in Critical Media Practice on Tuesday Oct. 25 at 5:30 p.m. in Sever 416. Critical Media Practice is open to all graduate students from around the university (not only FAS); it is designed to allow people to develop skills in the formulation of digital making projects that would complement their (written) thesis work. These complementary projects might include filmmaking or audio work, but also interactive web documentaries, virtual exhibits, and a raft of other mixed media. Co-CMP Director of Graduate Studies, Peter Galison (with Lucien Castaing-Taylor, currently on leave) will speak briefly about the program followed by short presentations by enrolled CMP students, alumni and CMP faculty advisors. Light refreshments will be served.

CMP OPEN HOUSE
Tuesday Oct. 25 at 5:30 p.m.
Sever 416

For more information please contact CMP Program Coordinator,
Cozette Russell cerussell@fas.harvard.edu

Applications for the Critical Media Practice Secondary Field degree are due on Nov. 1, 2016 for the fall semester.

CMP Capstone Defense: Stephanie Spray

  • Publication date May 15, 2016

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Critical Media Practice (CMP) Capstone Defense
MANAKAMANA by STEPHANIE SPRAY (co-directed with Pacho Velez)

High above a jungle in Nepal, pilgrims make an ancient journey by cable car to worship Manakamana.

Friday, May 27, 2016
at 2:30 p.m.
CCVA Lecture Hall

CMP Capstone Defense: Jared McCormick

  • Publication date May 2, 2016

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Critical Media Practice (CMP) Capstone Defense

A VIEW FROM THE VIEW
by Jared McCormick

Monday, May 9
at 3:00 p.m.
Tozzer 203

CMP Capstone Defense: Philip Cartelli

  • Publication date May 1, 2016

LAMPEDUSA by PHILIP CARTELLI (co-directed with Mariangela Ciccarello)
Lampedusa is composed of interwoven narratives based on a series of real events. In late 1831, a volcanic island suddenly erupted from the sea a few kilometers off the southern coast of Sicily. An international dispute ensued, during which a number of European powers laid claim to this newfound “land.” The island receded below sea level six months later, leaving only a rocky ledge under the sea…

Thursday May 5
at 3:00 p.m.
Sever 416

 

CMP Capstone Defense: Julia Yezbick

  • Publication date April 11, 2016

INTO THE HINTERLANDS by JULIA YEZBICK
Into the Hinterlands is a video collaboratively produced with the Detroit-based performance ensemble, The Hinterlands who practice a form of ecstatic training which they see as a provocation towards the unknown. The “hinterlands” evokes an unknown space both physical and imaginary whose mystery is its very source of generation and from which their creativity emerges. Their practice is one of ecstatic play, of finding the edge of one’s balance, and the limits of one’s body.

Tuesday April 12, 2016 
at 5:30 p.m.
Sever 416

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HOW TO RUST at the Ann Arbor Film Festival

  • Publication date March 2, 2016

Julia Yezbick’s film HOW TO RUST will screen at the Ann Arbor Film Festival on March 20 at 11am.

HOW TO RUST
(Julia Yezbick, 2016 25 min.)
Detroit artist Olayami Dabls’ installation “Iron Teaching Rocks How to Rust” is a metaphor for the forced assimilation of Africans to European culture and language. Here Dabls’ bricolage of the postindustrial landscape becomes a commentary on the half-life of Fordism, where the relationship between cultural production, history, and place is recast, revealing larger truths about how we mythologize a former glory and shape an imagined future.

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LAMPEDUSA at Lacarno

  • Publication date August 2, 2015

CMP student Philip Cartelli and Mariangela Ciccarello’s film, Lampedusa has its world premiere at the Lorcarno Film Festival.

Lampedusa
Philip Cartelli and Mariangela Ciccarello
Italy, France, USA · 2015 · DCP · Color and Black and White

Combining high definition and Super 8 footage, Lampedusa is composed of interwoven narratives based on a series of real events. In 1831, a volcanic island suddenly erupted from the sea a few kilometers off the southern coast of Sicily. An international dispute ensued, as a number of European powers laid claim to this newfound “land”. The island receded below sea level six months later, leaving only a rocky ledge under the sea…

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“The Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees” wins Ann Arbor Film Festival award

  • Publication date May 2, 2015

CMP student Joana Pimenta wins the Tom Berman Most Promising Filmmaker award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival for her recent film, “The Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees” (As Figuras Gravadas na Faca com a Seiva das Bananeiras).

“The Figures Carved Into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees”
Joana Pimenta
2014, DCP, 16 minutes
The rapid turning of a light draws a circle. In the space bound by its line unravels an archive of postcards sent between the island of Madeira and the former Portuguese colony of Mozambique. The figures carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees circulates between a fictional colonial memory, and science-fiction.

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INTO THE HINTERLANDS premieres at the Berlin Film Festival

  • Publication date January 5, 2015

Into the Hinterlands by CMP Student Julia Yezbick premieres at the Berlin Film Festival.

The Hinterlands, a Detroit-based performance ensemble, practice a form of ecstatic training which they see as a provocation towards the unknown — a space both physical and imaginary whose mystery is its source of generation and from which their creativity emerges. Their practice is one of ecstatic play, of finding the edge of one’s balance, and the limits of one’s body.
Into the Hinterlands
Julia Yezbick
2015, DCP, 39 mins.

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