Film and Media Screening Room D207

In this film directed by Lanre Olabisi, four lovers find themselves caught in a tangle of intersecting relationships in this engaging, New York set romantic drama that explores the ripple effects of love and obsession.  Developed through a year-long improvisational process and alternating between three different perspectives, Somewhere in the Middle (2015, 90 mins.) centers on a once-happy couple, whose marriage spirals into a series of emotionally messy affairs. Olabisi will be at the screening and will answer questions afterward. Lanre Olabisi is a writer/director…

Curator Jane Ursula Harris and directors Barbara Hammer, Katrina del Mar, Jill Reiter and Viva Ruiz will be in person to present Grrls on Girls II: Bonded, the second installment in a series curated by Harris. The films celebrate the transgressive, DIY feminism of riot grrl culture through the work of women filmmakers, bringing together queer, campy takes on female bonding that are saturated with raunchy sex and erotic revenge. Jane Ursula Harris is a Brooklyn-based freelance curator and writer who has contributed…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e-nOQHawZI Note: Snakehead will not be screened as previously listed; Leong's Linsanity is the full-length screening this evening. On February 2012, an entire nation of basketball fans unexpectedly went 'Linsane.' Stuck in the mire of a disappointing season, the New York Knicks did what no other NBA team had thought about doing. They gave backup point guard Jeremy Lin an opportunity to prove himself. He took full advantage, scoring more points in his first five NBA starts than any other player…

This Friday, FIT will screen the thesis short films from its first class of students with a Bachelor of Science degree in Film and Media. The ten films include documentary, fictional, and experimental works. Directors Kevin Shepherd and Thomas Younghans will premiere “Wild Hair,” edited by Kiana Macclellan, in which a young man recovering from a suicide attempt spends his time in the company of a sardonic puppet he talks to in an effort to ease his loneliness. Director Rafael…

FIT screens thesis short films by students graduating with an AAS in Film and Media. This event is open to the public. 

Collaborating together for the first time, filmmaker Lynne Sachs and playwright Lizzie Olesker observe the disappearing public space of the neighborhood laundromat and the continual, intimate labor that happens there. With a title inspired by the 1881 organization of African-American laundresses, The Washing Society (44 minutes, 2008) investigates the intersection of history, underpaid work, immigration, and the sheer math of doing laundry. Sachs and Olesker present a stark yet poetic vision of those whose working lives often go unrecognized, turning a…

The Film and Media Screening series will present The History of Luminous Motion (1998) with director Bette Gordon; she will participate in a Q&A after the film. The History of Luminous Motion tells the story of 10-year-old Phillip and his Mom,fugitives from The American Dream, who live the outlaw life on the road. While other kids his age study the old-fashioned way, the precocious Phillip has no need for school: the neon light of motel signs is light enough by which…

The Film and Media Screening series will present We the Animals (2018) with director Jeremiah Zagar; he will participate in a Q&A after the film. In We the Animals, three boys tear through their childhood in the midst of their young parents’ volatile love that makes and unmakes the family many times over. While Manny and Joel grow into versions of their loving and unpredictable father, Ma seeks to shelter her youngest, Jonah, in the cocoon of home. More sensitive and conscious…

Original, provocative, and female-driven, the feature Just Another Girl on the IRT was a welcome relief from the male dominated urban films of the '90s. Smart, ambitious, and brash, the lead character, Chantel, is not your typical "good girl" or "bad girl" but a complex character who deals with her ambitions, African-American culture and disappointments with both humor and pathos. With a bold, unforgettable hip-hop soundtrack and a heart-stopping ending, this feature has become an indie cult classic and defined…

The Film and Media Screening Series will present The Punk Singer (2017) with director Sini Anderson; she will participate in a Q&A after the film. The Punk Singer is a documentary film about feminist singer and activist Kathleen Hanna who fronted the bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, and who was a central figure in the riot grrrl movement. The film combines a combination of interviews and archival footage, tracing the life and career of Hanna from her troubled upbringing, through her riot grrrl zines, to her coining of the phrase "Smells Like Teen Spirit"…

As part of part of FIT's annual Holocaust commemoration, the college will screen the 2019 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Short Subject A Night at the Garden and host a discussion with director Marshall Curry. In 1939, 20,000 Americans rallied in New York’s Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism—an event largely forgotten from American history. A Night at the Garden, made entirely from archival footage filmed that night, transports audiences to this chilling gathering and shines a light on…

The Film and Media Screening Series will present Beautiful Things (2017) with director Giorgio Ferrero; he will participate in a Q&A after the film. Beautiful Things is a symphonic documentary journey into our obsessive consumerism. The film follows four men who work in isolation at remote scientific and industrial sites around the world. Like monks, they carry out their daily tasks in silence and solitude inside steel and concrete temples, creating products that will soon enter the capitalist cycle of production, transport, consumption. It won Best…

Students graduating from the Film and Media Associate of Applied Science degree program are screening their films in an evening-long event. The screening is a collective showcase of individual film projects that directly reflect the filmmaking techniques and styles developed during the students’ years at FIT. The films cover a spectrum of subject matter and filmic approaches. This event is free and open to the public.

Students graduating from the Film and Media Bachelor of Science degree program are screening their films in an evening-long event. The screening is a collective showcase of individual film projects that directly reflect the filmmaking techniques and styles developed during the students’ years at FIT. The films cover a spectrum of subject matter and filmic approaches. This event is free and open to the public. 

https://youtu.be/L-591Dqa48g The Film and Media Screening Series will present Patti Cake$ (2017) with director Geremy Jasper; he will participate in a Q&A after the film. In a coming-of-age story straight out of New Jersey, an unlikely rapper finds her voice as a one-of-a-kind hip-hop legend in the making in Patti Cake$, the first feature film from commercial and music-video director Geremy Jasper. Set in gritty strip-mall suburbia, Patti Cake$ chronicles an underdog's quest for fame and glory with humor, raw energy, and some unforgettable…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su0J7P8azfU Are you a fan of horror? Want to keep the Halloween spirit going? Or just intrigued by movies that explore who controls women's sexuality? The FIT Film Club and the Film, Media, and Performing Arts Department present a screening of PURE, part of the Into the Dark horror anthology series produced by Blumhouse. Screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Hannah Macpherson. This event is free and open to the public.

https://youtu.be/vD6Fj1q3foA The Film and Media Screening Series will present The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (2005) with director Keith Beauchamp; he will participate in a Q&A after the film. The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till articulates the horrors of racism in the American South of the 1950s. Combining archival photos and footage with deeply felt interviews, this documentary tells the harrowing story of what happened when a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago, visiting relatives in Mississippi, allegedly whistled at a…

https://youtu.be/quPU12W-7dg The Film and Media Screening Series will present My Art (2016) with director Laurie Simmons; she will participate in a Q&A after the film. My Art tells the tale of the frustrated New York City artist Ellie, who hopes to find inspiration as she house-sits for a friend in upstate New York. She turns the adjoining barn into her workplace, staging elaborate recreations of classic movie scenes, ranging from Some Like It Hot to A Clockwork Orange. Business unexpectedly evolves into…

https://youtu.be/7M_-ucSaFpU CANCELLED Rafiki (Swahili for "friend") is a 2018 Kenyan drama film directed by Wanuri Kahiu. Rafiki is the story of romance that grows between two young women, Kena and Ziki, amidst family and political pressures around LGBT rights in Kenya. Kena and Ziki live very different lives in Nairobi. Kena works in her father's shop and awaits the start of nursing school, while Ziki passes the days hanging out with her friends and making up dance routines. Their paths…