Princess (2010, 104 min, Director: Arto Halonen). This narrative film based on the life of cabaret dancer, Anna Lappalainen, who imagined she was English royalty, shows her transformative impact on the Finnish psychiatric hospital where she spent 50 years.
Panelists: HECTOR AMAYA, MARI CASTAÑEDA, MARÍA ELENA CEPEDA, ARLENE DAVILA, and JUAN GONZALEZ.
With HAMID DABASHI, ANNABELLE SREBERNY, NARGES BAJOGHLI. Moderated by ARANG KESHAVARZIAN.
Short films, digital media, and discussion with award-winning journalist MONA ELTAHAWY, Coptic filmmaker and scholar VIOLA SHAFIK, and YASMIN MOLL (Anthropology, NYU).
JOE MASCO (University of Chicago)
THE REVEALER READING SERIES Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball (2011, Oxford) REBECCA ALPERT (Temple University) will read from her new book which explores how Jewish sports entrepreneurs, political radicals, and a team of…
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (80 min., 2011, Director: Pamela Yates). Post-screening discussion with filmmakers PAMELA YATES and PACO DE ONÍS. Moderator: GREG GRANDIN.
Special preview screening of Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch. Discussion follows with filmmaker CHARLES MUSSER (Film Studies Program, Harvard University).
DIANE WINSTON (Knight Chair, Media and Religion, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, USC)
The Center for Religion and Media at NYU has received a two-year grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for an initiative on Digital Religion: Knowledge, Politics and Practice. The project will study how religion intertwines with the update of digital/social media in recent unprecedented social and political transformations–in particular but not exclusively in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central and Southeast Asia–along with the implications of these developments for international relations. The grant was recommended and approved under the Foundation’s Henry R. Luce initiative on Religion and International Affairs for September 2011–August 2013.
The Reel China @NYU Documentary Film Festival presents a sampling of the most outstanding contemporary independent documentaries produced in China. Participating filmmakers range from more experienced professional documentarians to young novices. As their disparate visions extend and overlap, we witness the persistent presence of independent cameras that, amidst the disorienting transformation in China, assures the discovery and documentation of fragments of contemporary reality that are becoming history at breakneck speed.
The Revealer is a daily review of religion in the news and the news about religion. We’re not so much nonpartisan as polypartisan — interested in all sides, disdainful of dualistic arguments, and enamored of free speech as a first principle. We publish and link to work by people of all persuasions, religious, political, sexual, and critical.
The MODIYA Project is an open source resource for exploring the interrelation of Jews, media, and religion as an area of research and teaching.