{"id":187,"date":"2011-12-04T06:40:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T06:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charlesmusser.com\/?page_id=187"},"modified":"2015-03-09T10:45:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T10:45:45","slug":"where-when","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.charlesmusser.com\/?page_id=187","title":{"rendered":"On the Road: Future\/Present\/Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

This page provides a list of selected events that I will be or have been attending.<\/strong><\/p>\n

June 5-7: NHdocs, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, New Haven, Ct.<\/p>\n

April 9-12: Ethnograph Film Festival with Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch<\/em> (2014), Paris, France.<\/p>\n

March 26-29: Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Montreal, Canada.<\/p>\n

March 7-14: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, offering a one-week seminar on the documentaries of Errol Morris.<\/p>\n

February 22: 40th Anniversary Screening of Hearts and Minds<\/em> (1974\/75) with director Peter Davis.\u00a0 Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, New Haven, Ct.<\/p>\n

February 28: Coney Island Symposium: An Intersection of Art & Identity, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT.<\/p>\n

January 29: Opening of Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland,\u00a0<\/em>Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT<\/p>\n

2014<\/p>\n

Nov 7-9: Presenting at conference: Codes and Modes: The Character of Documentary Culture, Hunter College, NYC<\/p>\n

November 1:\u00a0 Robert Gardner Memorial, Harvard Film Archive<\/p>\n

October 25th: Filming Baby Francis’s baptism in St. Louis<\/p>\n

October 18: Gerry Williams Memorial, Dunbarton, NH<\/p>\n

October 4-12: Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone, Italy.<\/p>\n

September 11: Theatrical debut of Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch (2014) at the West End Cinema, 2301 M Street, NW, Washington<\/em>, DC<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n

June 13-15: International Festival of Arts & Ideas.\u00a0 Programming “Family Matters: The Personal Cinema of Alan Berliner”<\/p>\n

March 30-April 2: Orphan Film Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands<\/p>\n

March 19-23: Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle Washington.<\/p>\n

February 15-22: Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.\u00a0 Premiering Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch<\/em> (2014)<\/p>\n

February 6-7: Tracking Specificity: the Fluctuations of Cinema.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Another Yale conference.\u00a0 I am chairing one of the panels.<\/p>\n

January 23-25: NEW WAVE EUROPE: Cinema circa 1962. <\/i>A conference at Yale University.\u00a0 I am one of the programmers and introduce Cleo from 5 to 7.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2013<\/p>\n

November 8-10: Stockholm University, to serve as opponent for for Nadi Tofighian’s dissertation defense.<\/p>\n

Oct 5-12: Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone, Italy.<\/p>\n

August 6: Presentation of “Nationalism, Contradiction, and Identity: Reassessing the Origins of Filipino Cinema,” University of the Philippines-Dilman (Quezon City, the Philippines).<\/p>\n

July 31: Screening of Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch<\/em> and presentation of “Nationalism, Contradiction, and Identity: Reassessing the Origins of Filipino Cinema,” University of San Carlos (Cebu, the Philippines)<\/p>\n

June 27: “Radical Documentary in the Post-WWII America: Carl Marzani & Union Films, 1946-1953,” presenting five Union Films productions, Light Industry (Brooklyn, NY).<\/p>\n

June 14-16:Program curator of “Historical Verit\u00e9: The Documentaries of Spike Lee and Sam Pollard,” International Festival of Arts & Ideas (New Haven, Ct).<\/p>\n

March 7-10: SCMS Conference in Chicago. Presenting a paper, “The Paradise Lost Project and the Courtroom Documentary” and general smoozing.<\/p>\n

February 25, 2013: Harvard University, Cambridge.\u00a0 Showing Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch <\/em>for Robb Moss’s class.\u00a0
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Nov 19-21, 2012: Oberlin College, Ohio.\u00a0 Talk and Screening of Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Nov 9-10: Alice Guy Blache conference.\u00a0 University of Maryland and National Portrait Gallery (D.C.)<\/p>\n

October 24-27: Brigham Young University, Provo Utah. Screening of Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch<\/em> and talk on “Media and the Presidential Elections of 1892&1896”<\/p>\n

October 17: Action Speaks, Providence, Rhode Island. Radio show on Chaplin’s Modern Times<\/em> (1936)<\/p>\n

October 6-13: Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone, Italy.<\/p>\n

Oct 3: Introducing Steve Ascher with Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern<\/em><\/em> (Ascher-Jordan, 1995) LC 101, 63 High Street, Yale University.\u00a0 @ 7 pm
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Sept 25: : Introducing Elizabeth Lennard with Stein Family:The Making of Modern Art<\/em> (Lennard, 2011) LC 101, 63 High Street, Yale University.\u00a0 @ 7 pm
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Sept 14-15: “After the Crash: European Film ca. 1929-1930,” Annual European Cinema Conference, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University.<\/p>\n

July 11-August 1:\u00a0 At Stockholm University teaching a condensed course on Audio-Visual Media and the US Presidential Elections.<\/p>\n

June 15-17th: Paradise Regained: Truth, Documentary and the Struggle for Innocence.\u00a0 <\/strong>I am curating this weekend of screenings and presentations at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas.\u00a0 Filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky will be there with there Paradise Lost<\/em> series.\u00a0 Also Jason Baldwin. See below:
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April 11-14: Orphans 8: Made to Persuade<\/p>\n

April 4: Preview screening of Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch <\/em>at the Center for Media, Culture<\/em> and History<\/em> at NYU.<\/p>\n

March 21-25: Society for Cinema and Media Studies.\u00a0 March 24th, 11 am: On a Workshop: “A Scholarship of Audiovision: Theory\/Praxis\/Production in the 21st Century,” organized and chaired by Brigitta Wagner (Indiana University, Bloomington).\u00a0 Here is my presentation, “Writing, Filmmaking, Scholarship: Working with Errol Morris.”<\/a>\u00a0 Showing Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch<\/em> (March 24th, 3 pm).<\/p>\n

Jan 26-29, 2012: Conference on\u00a0 Acting in Film, Theater and Dance<\/em> at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. Giving a presentation on the changing performance style of Al Jolson as he moved from live theater to sound films.<\/p>\n

Dec 9-11, 2011: Conference at University of Stockholm on documentary film: PALPABLE REALITIES: Documentary Practices from Brodsky to Morris.<\/em> I showed an almost finished cut of Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch<\/em>, presenting a paper on Morris and hopefully talking some about the fruitful interactions between filmmaking and scholarship.<\/p>\n

Dec 4: Conference at NYU on Chinese Documentary: GETTING THE PAST OUT LOUD: Memory Projects with Wu Wenguang.\u00a0 I was in the audience.\u00a0 I show a couple of Wu’s documentaries in my World Documentary course and I was excited to meet him.<\/p>\n

Dec 2-3: Conference and Screenings at Yale University: Remnants of Utopia: European Film, ca. 1975.\u00a0 Introducing two Agnes Varda films and on a panel about The Status of Feminism<\/em> with colleagues Katie Trumpener and Moira Fradinger.<\/p>\n

Nov 3-6:\u00a0 Conference on The Impact of Technological Innovations on the Historiography and Theory of Cinema<\/em> at the Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que Quebecoise in Montreal, Canada. My presentation: \u201cWhen Did Cinema Become Cinema?: Problems in Historiography and Theory,\u201d<\/p>\n

Oct 1-8: at the Giorante del Cinema Muto in Pordenone, Italy, watching films and talking cinema over Aperol Spritz.\u00a0 OK it’s hard work but somebody has to do it. I mean not everyone wants to watch 12 hours of silent film a day for 8 days.<\/p>\n

Sept 15: Presentation of An American Potter<\/em> at the opening of the \u201cGerry Williams Retrospective,\u201d Colby-Sawyer College (New London, NH).<\/p>\n

August 11-14:\u00a0 Visible Evidence 18 at New York University, NYC.\u00a0 Presented Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch<\/em>.<\/p>\n

June 17-19: with \u201cThe Iraq Experience:Four Films of Petra Epperlein and Mike Tucker\u201d at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, CT. I presented a paper “The Prisoner<\/em> and Other Documentaries on Abu Ghraib as well as a short documentary piece of a larger, forthcoming documentary: The Iraq Experience<\/em>.<\/p>\n

May 4-6: University of Lausanne, Switzerland).\u00a0 Paper presentation: “The Stereopticon and Cinema: Media Form or Platform?”<\/p>\n

April 7: Brooklyn College. \u00a0A work in progress screening of Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch<\/em>, thanks to Irina Patkanian.<\/p>\n

March 31-April 2: 8th Seminar on the Origins and History of Cinema in Girona Spain.\u00a0 My paper entitled: \u201c”Cinema, Newspapers and the US Presidential Election of 1896.”<\/p>\n

-\u201cShifting the Historical Paradigm from Film Studies to Media Studies: Audio-Visual Media in The Presidential Campaigns of 1892 and 1896,\u201d SCMS Conference (New Orleans), 12 March 2011.<\/p>\n

Feb 24:\u00a0 Yale University, Francesco Casetti’s Seminar on \u201cControversial Modernity: Cinema, Industry and Society in Italian Documentaries from ENI Archives,”\u00a0 I introduced \u201cLa Via del Petrolio (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1966).<\/p>\n

Feb 16: SUNY-Purchase. A work in progress screening of Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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