In Focus: Filmmakers on the Language of Cinema

November 1–15, 2017

Filmmakers Peter Mettler, Emiko Omori, and Elliot Davis shed light on the distinctive visual language of cinema in this lecture/screening series.

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  • Manufactured Landscapes

  • Rabbit in the Moon

  • The Tarnished Angels

  • Upcoming
    Films
  • Upcoming
    Events
  • Selected
    Objects
  • Past
    Films
  • Past
    Events

Past Films

  • Manufactured Landscapes

    Jennifer Baichwal
    Canada, 2006

    35mm Print

    Wednesday, November 1 3:10 PM
    Lecture by Peter Mettler

    This quietly provocative consideration of the mechanized sublime follows photographer Edward Burtynsky as he travels through China and Bangladesh recording large-scale industrial incursions into the landscape. Peter Mettler served as cinematographer and creative collaborator.

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  • Rabbit in the Moon

    Emiko Omori
    United States, 1999
    Wednesday, November 8 3:10 PM
    Lecture by Emiko Omori; Pat Jackson in Person

    Emiko Omori’s poetic documentary brings to first light the courageous acts of protest and even rebellion that marked the Japanese internment during World War II.

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  • The Tarnished Angels

    Douglas Sirk
    United States, 1957

    35mm ’Scope Print

    Wednesday, November 15 3:10 PM
    Lecture by Elliot Davis

    Rock Hudson plays a New Orleans newspaperman who develops an unprofessional fascination with carnival fliers Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone in Douglas Sirk’s drama, based on a story by William Faulkner and shot in sweeping CinemaScope black-and-white.

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