How Not to Be Seen
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAHannah Rose Shell screens and discusses her film-in-progress, called Blind, about the phenomenology of camouflage.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Richard Rouse, “Cinematic Games”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MARichard Rouse on the ways cinematic techniques can be used in gameplay to create even more stimulating experiences for gamers.
MIT/Harvard Cool Japan Project presents “Summer Wars”
MIT Building 26, Room 100 Access Via 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAThe New England premiere of the anime feature film "Summer Wars" (2009, Director Mamoru Hosoda, Madhouse / Kadokawa). The director and producer of the film, both based in Japan, will be present at the screening and will participate in a Q&A/discussion after the film.
Exit Zero: Documentary Filmmaking, Historical Memory, and Personal Voice
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAFilmmakers Chris Boebel and Chris Walley on the making of Exit Zero, an in-progress documentary film about deindustrialization, community, class, and family in a former steel mill region in southeast Chicago.
12th Annual Media Spectacle
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 123 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAThe event, founded by late CMS program administrator Chris Pomiecko, celebrates his love for filmmaking by showcasing the finest video projects created by MIT students, staff and faculty.
How Documentary Went Digital: the Implications of Informal Filming and Skeptical Audiences
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAJohn Ellis will argue that "Films are now seen as documents of interactions rather than expositions of fact."
13th Annual Media Spectacle
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAAn honored tradition returns this Spring when CMS presents the thirteenth annual Media Spectacle.
Mapping the Urban Database Documentary
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAThe urban database documentary is a mode of media art practice that uses structural systems as generative processes and organizational frameworks to explore the lived experience of place.
14th Annual CMS Media Spectacle
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAMedia Spectacle prizes include the Chris Pomiecko Award for Best Undergraduate Entry, as well as awards for Best Non-undergraduate Entry, Animation, and more.
Futures of Entertainment 6
MIT Building E51, Wong Auditorium 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAThis year's event, Nov. 9-10 at MIT, will look at how media producers and audiences are relating to one another in new ways in a spreadable media landscape.
New Forms, New Markets for Independent Film
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAIndependent film-maker Andrew Silver will discuss emerging forms of hybrid media, some promising new pathways for distributing films and his career as a director and producer.
Alchemists and Mad Scientists: from Faust to Dr. Strangelove
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MAWe will trace the development in mass media of the evolution of alchemists into mad scientists, using the films "Faust," "Metropolis," "The Bride of Frankenstein," and "Dr. Strangelove" as our texts.
Best of the 2012 European Short Film Festival at MIT
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MAA glimpse into contemporary short film productions from European film schools, young and established independent filmmakers, and European festivals.
Film Preservation in the Age of Digitality
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAMuch of the general public in fact believes that every film and television program ever made has already been digitized and is now available in Netflix’s catalog. That is hardly the case.
15th Annual CMS Media Spectacle
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 141 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAShowcasing the finest video projects created by MIT students, staff and faculty. 7 PRIZE CATEGORIES!
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