As the comprehensive support facility for the
Department of Cinema & Media Studies, the
Film Studies Center provides an ideal site for students and faculty to research film and other media. Explore the role the FSC plays in fostering interdisciplinary film scholarship through our
study collections and
public events programming.
Upcoming Event
Filmmaker Billy Woodberry in person! New 35mm restoration!
Set in the once prosperous L.A. Watts community, Woodberry’s film chronicles the devastating effects of underemployment. With Nate Hardy and Kaycee Moore delivering gut-wrenching performances as the couple whose family struggles to stay alive in a world of rapidly vanishing prospects...
Upcoming Event
Filmmaker Monona Wali in person!
These works foreground a variety of creative practices – drawing, photography, dancing, mask-making and tv production – illustrating how Black artistic expression (particularly by Black women) can provide joy, comfort and historical connection, while running the risk of being misinterpreted and misused...
Upcoming Event
This two-day screening and discussion of art and avant-garde Japanese cinema of the 1960s and 70s complements a retrospective at Doc Films, “From Silence to Pandemonium: Art Theater Guild and Japanese Underground Cinema, 1962-1974”...
