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Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald’s interview with filmmaker Pawel Wojtasik, “Perception as Transcendence,” has been published in the winter issue of Film Quarterly.  

The F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series will host award-winning film editor and director Chuck Workman as he presents Precious Images (1986) and Visionaries (2010) on Sunday, Nov. 13, at 2 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson Building. The screening, organized by Professor Scott MacDonald, is free and open to the public.  

The Hamilton College F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series continues with filmmaker Pawel Wojtasik presenting Dark Sun Squeeze (2003), Naked (2005), Nascentes Morimur (2009), Pigs (2010), The Aquarium (2006) and At the Still Point (2010) on Sunday, Nov. 6, at 2 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ. The event, organized by Professor Scott MacDonald, is free and open to the public.

The F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series will present Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon (1943, co-made with Alexander Hammid), At Land (1944) and Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946) on Sunday, Oct. 30, at 2 p.m. in the Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson Building.

Filmmaker Ernie Gehr will be on hand when the F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series presents four of his films on Sunday, Oct. 23, in the Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson Building. The screenings, organized by Professor Scott MacDonald, are free and open to the public.

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.

Stan Brakhage is one of the most significant avant-garde filmmakers in the 20th century. His influence can be seen across genres and decades. This summer, Emerson grant recipient Marty Cain ’13 is exploring the aesthetic philosophy of Brakhage and its relation to contemporary poetry.

Joe Harmon ’12 is fascinated with the culture of boxing—and he's certainly not alone; there is a mystique to the sport that has allured Americans for more than a century, and boxing has given birth to some of the biggest stars in the sporting world. An Emerson grant recipient, Harmon will spend the summer studying “Filmic Interpretations of Boxing” with Visiting Professor of Film History Scott MacDonald.