Film Studies at the Five Colleges : Film Studies Faculty (in progress)

Film Studies Faculty (in progress)

MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE FILM FACULTY:

Robin Blaetz
Associate Professor of Film Studies
Chair of Film Studies
Specialization: Experimental film, historical film, film and modernism, French and Italian film history, Joan of Arc in film and culture
Robin Blaetz teaches Introduction to Film, History of World Cinema, and Experimental Film, as well as courses in documentary film and various genres, including the musical and science fiction. Her scholarly work centers on women and film. She focuses on both the work of little-known women avant-garde filmmakers and the representation of women in historical film.

Justin Crumbaugh
Associate Professor of Spanish
Specialization: Spanish and Basque studies, particularly in relation to critical theory, cinema, political media, and economic discourse
Justin Crumbaugh has taught a range of courses on modern Spain, including seminars on themes such as consumer culture, travel narratives, Basque political violence, and the notion of economic and cultural “backwardness.” He is the author of Destination Dictatorship: The Spectacle of Spain's Tourist Boom and the Reinvention of Difference (SUNY Press 2009), a book that links the surge in mass tourism in Spain during the 1960s to the Franco dictatorship's attempts to reconsolidate power through modernization and “economic government.”

Ajay J. Sinha
Professor of Art History
Specialization: Indian art; Asian art; Indian films
Ajay Sinha is the author of Imagining Architects: Creativity in the Religious Monuments of India (University of Delaware Press, 2000), and editor, along with Raminder Kaur, of Bollyworld: Popular Indian Cinema through a Transnational Lens (New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, London, Sage Publications, 2005). His research has focused on ancient stone temples in the state of Karnataka in the southwest of India and modern Indian visual culture. Sinha has traveled on research grants to various parts of India and England. His current research project focuses on the visual culture of India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the cultural value of oil painting in it.

Paul Staiti
Professor of Fine Arts on the Alumnae Foundation
Specialization: American art; cultural history; film studies
Paul Staiti is a specialist in American art, particularly the work of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century painters. He has co-curatored and co-authored John Singleton Copley in America, an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; and Jefferson's America and Napoleon's France at the New Orleans Museum of Art. For the Louvre in Paris he wrote "American Artists and the July Revolution," an essay that was published in conjunction with the exhibition American Artists and the Louvre. His essays on the relationship between nineteenth-century American artists and the culture of deception have been included in exhibition catalogues for the National Gallery of Art and the Metropolitan Museum.

Thomas E. Wartenberg
Professor of Philosophy
Specialization: Philosophy of film; aesthetics; German philosophy; Kant; social and political philosophy; nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy; philosophy for children.
Thomas Wartenberg works at the intersection between philosophy and popular culture. His most recent work focuses on the philosophy of film, though he has written on a wide variety of topics in philosophy. In addition, his work teaching philosophy to elementary school children has garnered world-wide attention.

Elizabeth Young
Professor of English and Gender Studies
Specialization: Women writers; feminist theory; film; American literature; American studies; visual culture
Elizabeth Young teaches courses in women writers, feminist theory, American literature, and film. Her scholarship analyzes intersections among gender, race, and sexuality in American culture. Young is the author of Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War (University of Chicago Press, 1999), which discusses works ranging from the novels Little Women and Gone with the Wind to African American women's memoirs of the war to narratives of women who cross-dressed as male soldiers.

SMITH COLLEGE FILM FACULTY:

Alexandra Keller
Associate Professor of Film Studies
B.A. Harvard University, Ph.D. New York University
Director of the Film Studies Program
Alexandra Keller is the associate professor of Film Studies. She received her B.A. in Art History from Harvard and her Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from NYU. She specializes in the American Western, cinema and the postmodern, avant-garde and experimental film, and the relationship between cinema and other forms of artistic and cultural production, and has published work on all of these topics. She is the author of James Cameron (Routledge). Her next book is The Endless Frontier: Westerns and American Identity from Reagan to Bush II. She is also working on projects about consumer culture and cinema in 1950s America and the connections and disconnections between experimental moving image practices in the context of galleries and museums and more traditional exhibition sites. She annually teaches the Introduction to Film class and the Seminar in Film Theory, and also teaches classes on Global Cinema, Women and Cinema, the avant-garde and visual culture, the Western, and a series of classes on American film and culture from the invention of cinema to the present. With Ann Jones (Comparative Literature) she co-teaches a class on the cultural uses of the Vampire in film and literature.

Anna Botta
Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Language and Literature
Anna Botta teaches literary theory, modern and postmodern literatures, and Italian literature and cinema. At present, she is investigating new forms of social space in contemporary environments and the changing conceptions of European citizenship and Mediterranean identity. She has written on the cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ferzan Ozpetek and recent Italian films representing the condition of illegal immigrants. Her Italian cinema course “Style Matters: The Power of the Aesthetic in Italian Cinema” analyzes the cinematic dialogue between neorealism and stylized aetheticism which has characterized Italian cinema from Rossellini’s Open City to today’s portrayal of immigrants.

Barbara Kellum
Professor of Art
A.B., A.M. University of Southern California, A.M. University of Michigan, Ph.D. Harvard University

Dawn Fulton
Associate Professor of French Language and Literature
B.A. Yale University, Ph.D. Duke University
Dawn Fulton is an associate professor in the department of French. Her primary research area is the literature of Francophone Caribbean, with particular emphasis on novelists from French Overseas Departments. In addition to courses on French language and Francophone literature, she regularly teaches courses on French and Francophone cinema, including Africa and Europe on Screen and Cities of Light: Urban Spaces in Francophone Film.

Richard Millington
Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor of American Studies and Professor of English Language & Literature
B.A. Harvard College; M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D. Yale University
Richard Millington is Professor of English and the Director of American Studies. His main interest is nineteenth century American literature; more broadly, he is interested in the history of all kinds of imaginative expression in American culture, and is especially drawn to writers who are themselves interested in how culture works. He is the author of Practicing Romance: Narrative Form and Cultural Engagement in Hawthorne's Fiction, the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne and of the forthcoming Norton Critical Edition of Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance . He has also published essays on Hawthorne and on Willa Cather, and is the co-editor of Hitchcock's America, which includes his essay on North by Northwest . His current project is on the emergence of leisure in 19th-Century America. His courses include both pieces of the English department's survey of 19th-Century American literature and American Journeys, an exploration of multiethnic American literature.

Frazer Ward
Associate Professor of Art
B.A., M.A. University of Sydney, Australia, Ph.D. Cornell University
Frazer Ward teaches courses on the history of contemporary art and architecture. Current research interests, reflected in recent publications, include performance art of the 1960s and 1970s, the implications of new imaging technologies, and the status of art in contemporary public spheres.

Jefferson Hunter
Professor of English Language and Literature
B.A. Pomona College, B.A. University of Bristol, Ph.D. Yale University
Jefferson Hunter, Professor of English, has been on the Smith faculty since 1980. He teaches courses in twentieth-century British literature and, in the area of film, British Film and Television, Screen Comedy, and a First Year Seminar on Adaptation. He has just completed a book about relations between British writing and British filming.

Joel Westerdale
Visiting Assistant Professor of German Studies
B.A. University of Michigan, Ph.D. Harvard University
Joel Westerdale teaches courses on German film, including Nazi Film and Weimar Cinema. In addition, films play a significant role in many of the literature, culture and language courses he teaches in the German Studies Department, including All About Evil and Sex, Lies and Coffeehouses. Particular interests include early horror, the cinema of attractions, and mass culture

Lucretia Knapp
Lecturer in Film Studies
M.F.A. University of Michigan
M.A. and Master of Liberal Studies, Ohio State University
Lucretia Knapp is a film, video and new media artist. Her most recent work is Swim Suit, an experimental documentary short (distributed in the US and Canada by Frameline of San Francisco) that is part of a larger work on transgender identities. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently in film and video festivals in Hong Kong, Paris, Torino and Melbourne. Her writing has been published in Out In Culture: Gay, Lesbian and Queer Essays On Popular Culture, Cinema Journal and most recently, in the second edition of A Hitchcock Reader. She teaches in the Film Studies Department at Smith College and at the International Center of Photography in New York.

Margaret Bruzelius
Lecturer in Film Studies
Margaret Bruzelius teaches courses in Comparative Literature and the English Department on adventure fiction, the Victorian novel, and pre-twentieth century theories of language. The course on Screwball Comedy reflects her own love of screwball, which she discovered in "revival house" double bills during her college years. The sparkling virtuosity of these films -- their physical humor, verbal dexterity, and imaginative re-staging of romantic conventions remain a source of abiding pleasure. Their ability to admit and celebrate female sexual desire remains unequaled.

HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE FILM FACULTY:

ABRAHAM RAVETT
Professor of Film and Photography
Abraham Ravett, professor of film and photography, holds a B.A. in psychology from Brooklyn College, a B.F.A. in filmmaking and photography from the Massachusetts College of Art, and an M.F.A. in filmmaking from Syracuse University. Complementing a career in filmmaking and photography, he has also worked as a videomaker and media consultant.
Professor Ravett has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, the Japan Foundation, the Artists Foundation, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation among other awards. His films have been screened internationally at sites including The Museum of Modern Art and Anthology Film Archives in New York City, Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, Innis Film Society, Toronto, Canada, and Image Forum, Tokyo, Japan.

Baba Hillman
Five College Associate Professor of Film and Video
B.A. Duke University, M.F.A. University of California, San Diego
Baba Hillman's films and videos have screened in festivals and museums including Anthology Film Archives, Rencontres Paris/Berlin, MIX, European Media Festival 2000 (Osnabruck), Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Cinéma Jeune Collectif, ICAIC Havana, Cuba, Corcoran Gallery/Washington Project for the Arts, Cinema Africa, Bayreuth, World Africa Cinema, Yaounde, Cameroon and L.A. Freewaves. Her performance work has been presented internationally. Hillman was director of Teatro Movimento, a multi-media performance group based in Florence, Italy and has worked as a performer and choreographer with Etienne Decroux, Eleanor Antin and Sledgehammer Theatre.
Her films include "Passage du Désir," a feature length experimental narrative film shot in Paris and Madrid. The film explores desire and memory in the context of the experience of the exile; one whose relationship to history, place, language and sexuality is continually thrown into question. She has recently completed a documentary, “Fati and Aissatta,” a film about two sisters who live in the banlieue north of Paris Shot over a period of three years, the film follows the stories of the sisters, their refusal of traditional ideas of French identity and their search for independence within a community where secularization, radicalization and patriarchal rule are continually in confrontation.
Hillman has received grants and awards for her work from the French Ministry of Culture, the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, the California Arts Council, the Maryland Arts Council and the Italian city governments of Florence, Lecce, and Certaldo.

JOAN BRADERMAN
Professor of Video, Film and Media Studies
Joan Braderman, professor of video, film and media studies, holds an A.B. from Harvard and an M.A. and M.Phil. from New York University. Her award-winning documentaries and art videos (such as Joan Does Dynasty, 1986; Joan Sees Stars, 1992; and her recent, THE HERETICS, 2009) have been shown widely in museums, galleries, theaters, festivals, and universities as well as being broadcast in the U.S. and internationally. Her work is in the permanent collections of museums such as the Stedelijk, Amsterdam; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Museum of Modern Art, NYC.
Joan has been awarded grants & fellowships, public and private, including: The National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, and The Massachusetts State Council on the Arts, The Mass. Cultural Council, The McDowell Arts Colony, The Mellon Foundation, The American Film Institute, The MacArthur Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, The Berkeley Film Fund, and The National Endowment for the Humanities.
In addition to Hampshire, Joan has taught at The School of Visual Arts, NYC, The Boston Museum School, Nova Scotia School of Art and Design, The Media School of the London Art Institute, and the Universidade catolica portuguesa in Porto, Portugal.

WILLIAM BRAND
Professor of Film and Photography
William Brand, professor of film and photography, holds a B.A. in art from Antioch College and an M.F.A. in film from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has taught at Sarah Lawrence College and Hunter College and was awarded the MacArthur Chair at Hampshire for the years 1994-97. Since 2005 he has taught film restoration in the graduate Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program at New York University.
Since 1973, his films, videos and installations have exhibited extensively in the U.S. and abroad in museums, microcinemas, and on television. They have been featured at major film festivals including the Berlin Film Festival and New Directors/ New Films Festival. His 1981 Masstransiscope, a mural installed in the subway system of New York City which is animated by the movement of passing trains, is a widely regarded work of public art. In 1973 he founded Chicago Filmmakers, the showcase and workshop, and until 1991 served on the Board of Directors of the Collective for Living Cinema in New York City. He is currently an Artistic Director of Parabola Arts Foundation which he co-founded in 1981.
Since 1976 he has operated BB Optics, an optical printing service specializing in 8mm blow-ups and archival preservation. In 2006 he was named an Anthology Film Archives film preservation honoree and given a month long retrospective to celebrate BB Optics' 30th anniversary.

KARA LYNCH
Associate Professor of Video Production
Kara Lynch is a video, sound and performance artist. She has received several awards for her video work, such as the Planet Out/ifilm Short Movie Award in 2000 and the New York Foundation for the Arts and New York State Council for the Arts Individual artist awards in video and new media.
In 1994 she received an Arts International six-month Artist Residency in Moscow, Russia and in 1996 and 2001 she attended thematic artist residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts. During the summer of 2006 she participated in el Laboratorio Fronterizo de Escritores/Writing Lab on the Border in Tijuana, Baja MX and Chula Vista, CA, sponsored by the Fondo de Cultura Economica and ITESM Toluca Campus.
Recent works include: 'Invisible: episode 03 meet me in Okemah, Ok' 2003/4 a speculative fiction audio/video installation; 'Xing Over' 2003 6hr performance 2.36min 3 channel audio piece; 'Black Russians' 2001 117min documentary video; ‘The Outing Trilogy’ experimental video piece including: 'Mi Companera' 2002 12min and ‘Me-ba… I’m Coming’ 1998 9min.
She has served as a Juror for Outfest Los Angeles, on the selection committee for MIX: New York Experimental Film and Video Festival, and has been involved with the New Festival as a member of the shorts selection committee and print traffic co-coordinator.
Kara currently serves on the board for The Mountain School, Clockshop, and the Denniston Hill Foundation. She is a member of La Linea Interdiciplinario, a collective of women writers and artists in dialog across the US/Mexico borderlandia. She completed her M.F.A. in Visual Arts at University of California, San Diego.

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	Film Studies Faculty (in progress) MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE FILM FACULTY: Robin Blaetz Associate Professor of Film Studies Chair of Film Studies Specialization: Experimental film, historical film, film and modernism, French and Italian film history, Joan of Arc in film and culture Robin Blaetz teaches Introduction to Film, History of World Cinema, and Experimental Film, as well as courses in documentary film and various genres, including the musical and science fiction. Her scholarly work centers on women and film. She focuses on both the work of little-known women avant-garde filmmakers and the representation of women in historical film. Justin Crumbaugh Associate Professor of Spanish Specialization: Spanish and Basque studies, particularly in relation to critical theory, cinema, political media, and economic discourse Justin Crumbaugh has taught a range of courses on modern Spain, including seminars on themes such as consumer culture, travel narratives, Basque political violence, and the notion of economic and cultural “backwardness.” He is the author of Destination Dictatorship: The Spectacle of Spain's Tourist Boom and the Reinvention of Difference (SUNY Press 2009), a book that links the surge in mass tourism in Spain during the 1960s to the Franco dictatorship's attempts to reconsolidate power through modernization and “economic government.” Ajay J. Sinha Professor of Art History Specialization: Indian art; Asian art; Indian films Ajay Sinha is the author of Imagining Architects: Creativity in the Religious Monuments of India (University of Delaware Press, 2000), and editor, along with Raminder Kaur, of Bollyworld: Popular Indian Cinema through a Transnational Lens (New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, London, Sage Publications, 2005). His research has focused on ancient stone temples in the state of Karnataka in the southwest of India and modern Indian visual culture. Sinha has traveled on research grants to various parts of India and England. His current research project focuses on the visual culture of India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the cultural value of oil painting in it. Paul Staiti Professor of Fine Arts on the Alumnae Foundation Specialization: American art; cultural history; film studies Paul Staiti is a specialist in American art, particularly the work of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century painters. He has co-curatored and co-authored John Singleton Copley in America, an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; and Jefferson's America and Napoleon's France at the New Orleans Museum of Art. For the Louvre in Paris he wrote "American Artists and the July Revolution," an essay that was published in conjunction with the exhibition American Artists and the Louvre. His essays on the relationship between nineteenth-century American artists and the culture of deception have been included in exhibition catalogues for the National Gallery of Art and the Metropolitan Museum. Thomas E. Wartenberg Professor of Philosophy Specialization: Philosophy of film; aesthetics; German philosophy; Kant; social and political philosophy; nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy; philosophy for children. Thomas Wartenberg works at the intersection between philosophy and popular culture. His most recent work focuses on the philosophy of film, though he has written on a wide variety of topics in philosophy. In addition, his work teaching philosophy to elementary school children has garnered world-wide attention. Elizabeth Young Professor of English and Gender Studies Specialization: Women writers; feminist theory; film; American literature; American studies; visual culture Elizabeth Young teaches courses in women writers, feminist theory, American literature, and film. Her scholarship analyzes intersections among gender, race, and sexuality in American culture. Young is the author of Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War (University of Chicago Press, 1999), which discusses works ranging from the novels Little Women and Gone with the Wind to African American women's memoirs of the war to narratives of women who cross-dressed as male soldiers. SMITH COLLEGE FILM FACULTY: Alexandra Keller Associate Professor of Film Studies B.A. Harvard University, Ph.D. New York University Director of the Film Studies Program Alexandra Keller is the associate professor of Film Studies. She received her B.A. in Art History from Harvard and her Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from NYU. She specializes in the American Western, cinema and the postmodern, avant-garde and experimental film, and the relationship between cinema and other forms of artistic and cultural production, and has published work on all of these topics. She is the author of James Cameron (Routledge). Her next book is The Endless Frontier: Westerns and American Identity from Reagan to Bush II. She is also working on projects about consumer culture and cinema in 1950s America and the connections and disconnections between experimental moving image practices in the context of galleries and museums and more traditional exhibition sites. She annually teaches the Introduction to Film class and the Seminar in Film Theory, and also teaches classes on Global Cinema, Women and Cinema, the avant-garde and visual culture, the Western, and a series of classes on American film and culture from the invention of cinema to the present. With Ann Jones (Comparative Literature) she co-teaches a class on the cultural uses of the Vampire in film and literature. Anna Botta Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Language and Literature Anna Botta teaches literary theory, modern and postmodern literatures, and Italian literature and cinema. At present, she is investigating new forms of social space in contemporary environments and the changing conceptions of European citizenship and Mediterranean identity. She has written on the cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ferzan Ozpetek and recent Italian films representing the condition of illegal immigrants. Her Italian cinema course “Style Matters: The Power of the Aesthetic in Italian Cinema” analyzes the cinematic dialogue between neorealism and stylized aetheticism which has characterized Italian cinema from Rossellini’s Open City to today’s portrayal of immigrants. Barbara Kellum Professor of Art A.B., A.M. University of Southern California, A.M. University of Michigan, Ph.D. Harvard University Dawn Fulton Associate Professor of French Language and Literature B.A. Yale University, Ph.D. Duke University Dawn Fulton is an associate professor in the department of French. Her primary research area is the literature of Francophone Caribbean, with particular emphasis on novelists from French Overseas Departments. In addition to courses on French language and Francophone literature, she regularly teaches courses on French and Francophone cinema, including Africa and Europe on Screen and Cities of Light: Urban Spaces in Francophone Film. Richard Millington Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor of American Studies and Professor of English Language & Literature B.A. Harvard College; M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D. Yale University Richard Millington is Professor of English and the Director of American Studies. His main interest is nineteenth century American literature; more broadly, he is interested in the history of all kinds of imaginative expression in American culture, and is especially drawn to writers who are themselves interested in how culture works. He is the author of Practicing Romance: Narrative Form and Cultural Engagement in Hawthorne's Fiction, the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne and of the forthcoming Norton Critical Edition of Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance . He has also published essays on Hawthorne and on Willa Cather, and is the co-editor of Hitchcock's America, which includes his essay on North by Northwest . His current project is on the emergence of leisure in 19th-Century America. His courses include both pieces of the English department's survey of 19th-Century American literature and American Journeys, an exploration of multiethnic American literature. Frazer Ward Associate Professor of Art B.A., M.A. University of Sydney, Australia, Ph.D. Cornell University Frazer Ward teaches courses on the history of contemporary art and architecture. Current research interests, reflected in recent publications, include performance art of the 1960s and 1970s, the implications of new imaging technologies, and the status of art in contemporary public spheres. Jefferson Hunter Professor of English Language and Literature B.A. Pomona College, B.A. University of Bristol, Ph.D. Yale University Jefferson Hunter, Professor of English, has been on the Smith faculty since 1980. He teaches courses in twentieth-century British literature and, in the area of film, British Film and Television, Screen Comedy, and a First Year Seminar on Adaptation. He has just completed a book about relations between British writing and British filming. Joel Westerdale Visiting Assistant Professor of German Studies B.A. University of Michigan, Ph.D. Harvard University Joel Westerdale teaches courses on German film, including Nazi Film and Weimar Cinema. In addition, films play a significant role in many of the literature, culture and language courses he teaches in the German Studies Department, including All About Evil and Sex, Lies and Coffeehouses. Particular interests include early horror, the cinema of attractions, and mass culture Lucretia Knapp Lecturer in Film Studies M.F.A. University of Michigan M.A. and Master of Liberal Studies, Ohio State University Lucretia Knapp is a film, video and new media artist. Her most recent work is Swim Suit, an experimental documentary short (distributed in the US and Canada by Frameline of San Francisco) that is part of a larger work on transgender identities. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently in film and video festivals in Hong Kong, Paris, Torino and Melbourne. Her writing has been published in Out In Culture: Gay, Lesbian and Queer Essays On Popular Culture, Cinema Journal and most recently, in the second edition of A Hitchcock Reader. She teaches in the Film Studies Department at Smith College and at the International Center of Photography in New York. Margaret Bruzelius Lecturer in Film Studies Margaret Bruzelius teaches courses in Comparative Literature and the English Department on adventure fiction, the Victorian novel, and pre-twentieth century theories of language. The course on Screwball Comedy reflects her own love of screwball, which she discovered in "revival house" double bills during her college years. The sparkling virtuosity of these films -- their physical humor, verbal dexterity, and imaginative re-staging of romantic conventions remain a source of abiding pleasure. Their ability to admit and celebrate female sexual desire remains unequaled. HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE FILM FACULTY: ABRAHAM RAVETT Professor of Film and Photography Abraham Ravett, professor of film and photography, holds a B.A. in psychology from Brooklyn College, a B.F.A. in filmmaking and photography from the Massachusetts College of Art, and an M.F.A. in filmmaking from Syracuse University. Complementing a career in filmmaking and photography, he has also worked as a videomaker and media consultant. Professor Ravett has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, the Japan Foundation, the Artists Foundation, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation among other awards. His films have been screened internationally at sites including The Museum of Modern Art and Anthology Film Archives in New York City, Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, Innis Film Society, Toronto, Canada, and Image Forum, Tokyo, Japan. Baba Hillman Five College Associate Professor of Film and Video B.A. Duke University, M.F.A. University of California, San Diego Baba Hillman's films and videos have screened in festivals and museums including Anthology Film Archives, Rencontres Paris/Berlin, MIX, European Media Festival 2000 (Osnabruck), Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Cinéma Jeune Collectif, ICAIC Havana, Cuba, Corcoran Gallery/Washington Project for the Arts, Cinema Africa, Bayreuth, World Africa Cinema, Yaounde, Cameroon and L.A. Freewaves. Her performance work has been presented internationally. Hillman was director of Teatro Movimento, a multi-media performance group based in Florence, Italy and has worked as a performer and choreographer with Etienne Decroux, Eleanor Antin and Sledgehammer Theatre. Her films include "Passage du Désir," a feature length experimental narrative film shot in Paris and Madrid. The film explores desire and memory in the context of the experience of the exile; one whose relationship to history, place, language and sexuality is continually thrown into question. She has recently completed a documentary, “Fati and Aissatta,” a film about two sisters who live in the banlieue north of Paris Shot over a period of three years, the film follows the stories of the sisters, their refusal of traditional ideas of French identity and their search for independence within a community where secularization, radicalization and patriarchal rule are continually in confrontation. Hillman has received grants and awards for her work from the French Ministry of Culture, the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, the California Arts Council, the Maryland Arts Council and the Italian city governments of Florence, Lecce, and Certaldo. JOAN BRADERMAN Professor of Video, Film and Media Studies Joan Braderman, professor of video, film and media studies, holds an A.B. from Harvard and an M.A. and M.Phil. from New York University. Her award-winning documentaries and art videos (such as Joan Does Dynasty, 1986; Joan Sees Stars, 1992; and her recent, THE HERETICS, 2009) have been shown widely in museums, galleries, theaters, festivals, and universities as well as being broadcast in the U.S. and internationally. Her work is in the permanent collections of museums such as the Stedelijk, Amsterdam; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Museum of Modern Art, NYC. Joan has been awarded grants & fellowships, public and private, including: The National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, and The Massachusetts State Council on the Arts, The Mass. Cultural Council, The McDowell Arts Colony, The Mellon Foundation, The American Film Institute, The MacArthur Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, The Berkeley Film Fund, and The National Endowment for the Humanities. In addition to Hampshire, Joan has taught at The School of Visual Arts, NYC, The Boston Museum School, Nova Scotia School of Art and Design, The Media School of the London Art Institute, and the Universidade catolica portuguesa in Porto, Portugal. WILLIAM BRAND Professor of Film and Photography William Brand, professor of film and photography, holds a B.A. in art from Antioch College and an M.F.A. in film from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has taught at Sarah Lawrence College and Hunter College and was awarded the MacArthur Chair at Hampshire for the years 1994-97. Since 2005 he has taught film restoration in the graduate Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program at New York University. Since 1973, his films, videos and installations have exhibited extensively in the U.S. and abroad in museums, microcinemas, and on television. They have been featured at major film festivals including the Berlin Film Festival and New Directors/ New Films Festival. His 1981 Masstransiscope, a mural installed in the subway system of New York City which is animated by the movement of passing trains, is a widely regarded work of public art. In 1973 he founded Chicago Filmmakers, the showcase and workshop, and until 1991 served on the Board of Directors of the Collective for Living Cinema in New York City. He is currently an Artistic Director of Parabola Arts Foundation which he co-founded in 1981. Since 1976 he has operated BB Optics, an optical printing service specializing in 8mm blow-ups and archival preservation. In 2006 he was named an Anthology Film Archives film preservation honoree and given a month long retrospective to celebrate BB Optics' 30th anniversary. KARA LYNCH Associate Professor of Video Production Kara Lynch is a video, sound and performance artist. She has received several awards for her video work, such as the Planet Out/ifilm Short Movie Award in 2000 and the New York Foundation for the Arts and New York State Council for the Arts Individual artist awards in video and new media. In 1994 she received an Arts International six-month Artist Residency in Moscow, Russia and in 1996 and 2001 she attended thematic artist residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts. During the summer of 2006 she participated in el Laboratorio Fronterizo de Escritores/Writing Lab on the Border in Tijuana, Baja MX and Chula Vista, CA, sponsored by the Fondo de Cultura Economica and ITESM Toluca Campus. Recent works include: 'Invisible: episode 03 meet me in Okemah, Ok' 2003/4 a speculative fiction audio/video installation; 'Xing Over' 2003 6hr performance 2.36min 3 channel audio piece; 'Black Russians' 2001 117min documentary video; ‘The Outing Trilogy’ experimental video piece including: 'Mi Companera' 2002 12min and ‘Me-ba… I’m Coming’ 1998 9min. She has served as a Juror for Outfest Los Angeles, on the selection committee for MIX: New York Experimental Film and Video Festival, and has been involved with the New Festival as a member of the shorts selection committee and print traffic co-coordinator. Kara currently serves on the board for The Mountain School, Clockshop, and the Denniston Hill Foundation. She is a member of La Linea Interdiciplinario, a collective of women writers and artists in dialog across the US/Mexico borderlandia. She completed her M.F.A. in Visual Arts at University of California, San Diego.