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In the words of its founder and curator Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald, the Forum on Image and Language in Motion (F.I.L.M.) series “is what you would never know about film if you just went to the movies every weekend or watched television.”

The fall F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series will present Matthew Porterfield’s Putty Hill (2010) on Sunday, Oct. 9, at 2 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ. The event, organized by Professor Scott MacDonald, is free and open to the public.

The fall F.I.L.M. (Forum for Image and Languages in Motion) series lineup has been announced. Organizer and Hamilton Visiting Professor Scott MacDonald has directed the film series for more than 20 years. All events are free and open to the public.

The fall F.I.L.M. (Forum for Images and Language in Motion) series concludes with self-taught photographer Hitoshi Toyoda and his slideshow NAZUNA on Sunday, Dec. 5, at 2 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson Building. The event is free and open to the public.

Filmmaker Alexander Olch will present The Windmill Movie on Sunday, Nov. 14, at 2 p.m., in the Kirner-Johnson Building’s Bradford Auditorium. The screening is part of the fall F.I.L.M. (Forum for Images and Language in Motion) series and is free and open to the public.

The fall F.I.L.M. (Forum for Images and Languages in Motion) series continues at Hamilton College with Metropolis on Sunday, Nov. 7, at 2 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson Building. The Alloy Orchestra will provide live accompaniment for the silent film. The screening is free and open to the public.

The lineup for the fall F.I.L.M. (Forum for Images and Languages in Motion) series has been announced. Programs are scheduled for Sunday afternoons at 2 p.m. in the Bradford Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson Building, with the exception of Diaries (1971-1976) which will be shown in two parts on Sunday, Oct. 31, and Monday, Nov. 1. All events are free and open to the public. Listed below are the programs in the fall 2010 series.

Two Hamilton students and three faculty members participated in the Flaherty Film Seminar at Colgate University June 19-25. Jori Belkin ’11, Cameron Breslin ’11, Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English Patricia O'Neill, Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald, Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Su Yun Kim, watched and discussed documentary films from around the world with the filmmakers, and with film scholars, programmers and educators.

Visiting Professor of Film History Scott MacDonald's interview with Indonesian/Dutch filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich appears in the current issue of Film Quarterly, and his essay on Russian montage filmmaker Artavazd Peleshian appeared in the February issue of Artforum.

Visiting Professor of Film History Scott MacDonald Scott MacDonald presented two public screenings and a master class on the topic “Avant/Doc,” the historical/theoretical intersections of documentary film and avant-garde film, at UnionDocs, a nonprofit organization on Union Street in Brooklyn that nurtures young documentary filmmakers.