IU alum Todd Wagner shares a wealth of insights as entertainment, tech entrepreneur
Entertainment and technology entrepreneur Todd Wagner spoke last week at IU Cinema as part of the Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Lecture Series. For Wagner, a 1983 graduate of Indiana University, the visit also was a chance to share his alma mater with his family. “This campus is beautiful. It’s amazing,” he said. “I look back at (my […]
‘(Re)Imagining Science’ exhibition at Grunwald Gallery turns collaboration into an art
What happens when we look at science differently? Artists and research scientists at Indiana University Bloomington have teamed up in more than a dozen creative partnerships to visualize scientific principles and foster new ways of understanding. The results of their collaborations will be on display in the exhibition “(Re)Imagining Science” Oct. 14 to Nov. 16 at the […]
IU’s Center for Documentary Research and Practice hosts seminar on legacy of colonialism
Post courtesy of IU Newsroom intern Amanda N. Marino: Documentary media and historical transformations will be the focus of the first Sawyer Seminar hosted by Indiana University’s Center for Documentary Research and Practice. Intended as part of a five-part series, the two-day event will be led by Joshua Malitsky, director of the center and an […]
‘No More Road Trips?’ transports its audience across U.S. through eyes of many beholders
“No More Road Trips?” ventures far from an ordinary documentary. Archivist Rick Prelinger traverses the United States in an 80-minute voyage from New England to California and into the past along the way. His vehicle is other people’s home movies, curated from his extensive collection of 50,000 films. As a filmmaker, Prelinger saves extra space for the […]
The academy’s diverse new Class of 2016 includes filmmaker and IU alum Hannah Fidell
Film director Hannah Fidell was already having a good day. She met with a female studio executive who made it clear that hiring women was a main priority. When the 2007 Indiana University graduate, now based in Los Angeles, left the meeting and checked her phone, her day became unforgettable. Fidell had been invited to […]
Recent IU graduates take on technology and cinema as their film heads to Cannes festival
Last May, Joyce “Eli” and Jean “Lu” Bevins had graduation on their minds. Both earned master’s degrees from the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington. Fast forward to just one year later: Their film “My Dear Arthur” will be screened at the Cannes Film Festival. It is one of 30 titles Campus […]
Hollywood veteran and IU professor Robby Benson to speak at IU Cinema
In 2010, Robby Benson was teaching at New York University. With one class left in the semester, the veteran of film, television and Broadway learned he needed heart surgery, again, and immediately. Repairs to his valve defect were failing. Benson missed his class. Instead, he was off to The Cleveland Clinic for a fourth open-heart […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo to read his work at IU Bloomington
Post courtesy of newsroom intern Annie Brackemyre: Contemporary poet Gregory Pardlo will visit the Indiana University Bloomington campus for a reading from his Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, “Digest.” The free reading, which is open to the public, will take place at 7 p.m. Feb. 2 in the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center. Pardlo’s collection ranges from the delicate […]
The new Wounded Galaxies Festival to bring avant-garde arts, experimental music to town
Be prepared to be surprised. The Wounded Galaxies Festival of Experimental Media will launch next week with a mix of music, film and other happenings. “Wounded Galaxies will bring together a world-class slate of performers and filmmakers, the kind of slate that you would ordinarily have to go to Chicago to see,” said Joan Hawkins, […]
Acclaimed documentary photographers Andrew Lichtenstein and Cedric Nunn to speak
Post by IU Newsroom intern Tori Lawhorn: Indiana University’s new Center for Documentary Research and Practice, an entity within The Media School, will present the lecture “Landscape | Memory | Trauma” on Sept. 24 as its first public program. Two contemporary photographers, Cedric Nunn from South Africa and Andrew Lichtenstein from Brooklyn, N.Y., will present their work together […]
