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“The Sound of Silent Film: A Two-Part Benshi Event,” the second 2014 F.I.L.M. Series program, offered a packed house a multi-faceted event featuring a unique musical collaboration between international artists from Japan, France and Canada on Sunday, Sept. 28. The audience, which included numerous local Utica community members, were treated to a world premiere of a Western-style composition with traditional Japanese instruments brought together for the purpose of accompanying Japanese silent movies.

Hamilton’s FILM series will host a Benshi Event featuring benshi Ichiro Kataoka, composer Gabriel Thibaudeau and musicians from Japan, Canada and France on Sunday, Sept. 28, at 2 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ.

The fall 2014 F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series opens with J. P. Sniadecki's presentation of his new film The Iron Ministry on Sunday, Sept. 21, at 2 p.m., in Bradford Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson Building. The screening is free and open to the public.

"American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn," a book written by Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald, was ranked #2 in a Slant Magazine article titled “The 10 Best Film-Studies Books of 2013.”

The Hamilton College F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series will screen “Manakamana” (2013) with filmmakers Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez, on Sunday, Dec. 8, at 2 p.m., in Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson Building.

Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald presented two programs of films on Nov. 18 and 19 at the Harvard Film Archive.

The Hamilton College F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series will present the Alloy Orchestra accompanying “He Who Gets Slapped” (1924), on Thursday, Nov. 21, at 7 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ. The film will be followed by a discussion with the orchestra members—Terry Donahue, Roger Miller and Ken Winokur. The event is free and open to the public.

The Hamilton College F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series will present “Three Landscapes” (2013) with filmmaker Peter Hutton, on Sunday, Nov. 17, at 2 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ. The event includes the screening of the film as well as a discussion with the filmmaker. It is free and open to the public.

French directors Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou, considered by many to be the best nature filmmakers in the world, will present their most recent work, “The Field of Enchantment,” on Sunday, Nov. 10, at 2 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, as part of the college's F.I.L.M. series.

The Hamilton College F.I.L.M. series will screen The Extravagant Shadows (2012) with director David Gatten, on Sunday, Nov. 3, at 1 p.m., in Bradford Auditorium.