Film and Media Screening Series: Welcome to This House, With Barbara Hammer

Film and Media Screening Room D207 Pomerantz Center, New York City , NY, United States

As part of the Film and Media Screening Series, director Barbara Hammer will present Welcome to This House. With this latest work, Hammer, who is known for films about lesbian life, examines the life of Pulitzer Prize–winning American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), a poet who gained notoriety as much for her poetry as her tempestuous romance with Lota […]

Film and Media Screening Series: In the Eye of the Spiral, with Raynald Leconte and Eve Blouin

Film and Media Screening Room D207 Pomerantz Center, New York City , NY, United States

Awarded Best Feature Documentary at the 2014 Big Apple Film Festival in New York City, In the Eye of the Spiral examines a new philosophical movement born in Haiti called Spiralism. In a country affected by corruption and natural disaster, this film shows the will of Haitian artists who produce art as a personal journey toward […]

Film and Media Screening Series: Jason and Shirley with Stephen Winter

Film and Media Screening Room D207 Pomerantz Center, New York City , NY, United States

Jack Waters in Jason and Shirley, photo by Ricardo Nelson, courtesy of JaShirl LLC. Once upon a time in the Chelsea Hotel... Jason and Shirley reimagines the electrifying, take-no-prisoners 1966 power struggle between Jason Holliday, a locally known, black, gay, middle-aged hustler, and Shirley Clarke, a Jewish, female, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, that took place over a 12-hour marathon […]

Film and Media Screening Series: Teknolust by Lynn Hershman Leeson

Film and Media Screening Room D207 Pomerantz Center, New York City , NY, United States

In this science fiction drama Tilda Swinton plays fours parts, including Rosetta Stone, a bio-geneticist who downloads her own DNA and combines it with a computer software to produce three Self Replicating Automatons (SRAs) who rely on sperm to survive. Unfortunately, they leave the males they seduce with a strange virus that overtakes both their bodies and […]

Film and Media Screening Series: Touch with Shelly Silver

Film and Media Screening Room D207 Pomerantz Center, New York City , NY, United States

In this film directed by Shelly Silver, a man returns to his childhood home in Chinatown after 50 years to care for his dying mother. Throughout the film he remains nameless. […]