by Montserrat Madariaga The theater is at its full capacity. The musicians are in place as the orchestra conductor starts to wave his arms in time with the image on the screen. There, little red dots emerge from a black background. They slowly widen and turn into capital letters: The word KOYAANISQATSI takes over. Keyboard […]
Films & Media
The Littlefield Lectures: The Van and the Rear: Abolitionist Roots of Radical Reconstruction (Day 2)
On February 26-27 2018, The History Department at the University of Texas at Austin was pleased to welcome Dr. Manisha Sinha, Professor and James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut, as the featured speaker for The Littlefield Lecture Series. Dr. Sinha’s first lecture, titled “Abolition and the Making of Southern Reaction,” […]
The Littlefield Lectures: Abolition and the Making of Southern Reaction (Day 1)
On February 26-27 2018, The History Department at the University of Texas at Austin was pleased to welcome Dr. Manisha Sinha, Professor and James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut, as the featured speaker for the Littlefield Lecture Series. Watch Professor Sinha’s first lecture on Not Even Past, titled “Abolition and the […]
50 Years Since Prague Spring: Czechoslovak Dreams and Cold War Realities
This panel offers a retrospective examination of the 1968 Czechoslovak “Prague Spring”, or what the LBJ administration labeled the “Czechoslovak crisis.” Panelists Dr. Mary Neuburger, Professor of History and Director, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) and Dr. Jeremi Suri, Professor of History and Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs, offer […]
Faces of Migration: The Grand Budapest Hotel
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Tuesday, April 10 | 7 p.m. CLA 1.302B Free | Open to the Public Public parking | Brazos Garage, 210 E. MLK Blvd THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of M. Gustave, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who […]
Faces of Migration: Lone Star
LONE STAR Tuesday, March 27 | 7 p.m. CLA 1.302B Free | Open to the Public Public parking | Brazos Garage, 210 E. MLK Blvd “The great, stirring epic LONE STAR stands as a peak in the career of John Sayles, who already has such admirably serious films to his credit. Long admired for the […]
Faces of Migration: Lamerica
LAMERICA Tuesday, March 6 | 7 p.m. CLA 1.302B Free | Open to the Public Public parking | Brazos Garage, 210 E. MLK Blvd “Master Italian filmmaker Gianni Amelio followed his Oscar-nominated Open Doors and internationally acclaimed The Stolen Children with this unforgettable story of huckster brothers Gino (Enrico Lo Verso) and Fiore (Michele Placido), who travel from Italy […]
Faces of Migration: Moi, Un Noir
MOI, UN NOIR Tuesday Feb. 20 | 7 p.m. CLA 1.302B Public parking: Brazos Garage, 210 E. MLK Blvd Winner of the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc in 1958, MOI, UN NOIR marked Jean Rouch’s break with traditional ethnography, and his embrace of the collaborative and improvisatory strategies he called “shared ethnography” and “ethnofiction.” “The film […]
Faces of Migration: Take Out
TAKE OUT Tue. Feb. 6 | 7:00pm CLA 1.302E (Glickman Conference Center) Public parking: Brazos Garage, 210 E. MLK Blvd. From directors Sean Baker (“Tangerine,” “The Florida Project”) and Shih-Ching Tsou, “Take Out” is a day-in-the-life of Ming Ding, an illegal Chinese immigrant working as a deliveryman for a Chinese take-out shop in New York […]
Faces of Migration: Classic and Contemporary Films
The Not Even Past film series, Faces of Migration, is back this Spring every other Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Glickman Conference Center (CLA Building) on the UT Austin campus. Films are free and open to the public. Each film will be introduced by a faculty member who will lead a discussion after the […]
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