Special Events and Guest Speakers
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Visiting Artists and Guest Speakers
Twenty to thirty guest filmmakers and other speakers attend Cornell Cinema screenings each year to introduce and discuss their work. Some also visit film production or other classes while on campus. Over its near-50 year history, hundreds of filmmakers and other artists have been hosted by Cornell Cinema. Coming soon: a partial listing of visiting filmmakers, musicians & other guests hosted by Cornell Cinema over the past few decades.
Special Guests Fall 2019:
- Cornell Cinema Director Mary Fessenden
- hosts An Orientation to Cornell Cinema
- Mon Aug 26 @ 6:45
- Indian filmmaker Swati Dandekar
- presents her film True Blue (Neeli Raag), the story of the dye indigo
- Mon Sept 9 @ 7:00 (free)
- Filmmaker Marc Halberstadt
- presents his documentary Cowjews and Indians
- Tues Sept 10 @ 7:00 (free)
- Filmmaker Thomas Elsaesser
- presents his essay film The Sun Island
- Tues Sept 17 @ 7:00
- Filmmaker & Cornell alum Jill Magid '95
- participates in a post-screening Q&A via Skype following a screening of The Proposal
- Thur Sept 19 @ 7:00
- Cuban filmmaker Miguel Coyula
- presents his film Nadie (Nobody)
- Thur Oct 3 @ 7:00
- Co-director Cynthia Wade
- presents Grit
- Wed Oct 9 @ 7:00
- Filmmaker and Ithaca native (and Ithaca College alum) Zia Anger
- presents her multi-media performance My First Film
- Thur Oct 10 @ 7:15
- Special pricing: $10 general/$8 students ($2 off for All-Access Pass holders)
- French filmmaker Mame-Fatou Niang
- presents her documentary Mariannes noires, profiling seven French-born women of African descent
- Thur Oct 17 @ 7:00 (free)
- Experimental Animator Kelly Sears
- presents Alternate Histories, a program of her animation shorts
- Thur Oct 24 @ 7:00
- Indian filmmaker Anand Patwardhan
- presents his political documentary Reason
- Mon Oct 28 @ 4:45 (free; includes an intermission with complimentary pizza)
- Acclaimed silent film organist Dennis James
- accompanies Lon Chaney’s 1923 silent The Hunchback of Notre Dame on the Sage Chapel organ
- Tues Oct 29 @ 7:30 in Sage Chapel (free)
- The Alloy Orchestra
- performs their famous live score to a screening of Fritz Lang’s silent sci-fi masterpiece Metropolis (1927), in the definitive restoration
- Fri Nov 8 @ 7:00
- Special Pricing: $16 general / $14 students ($3 off for All-Access Pass holders)
- The Alloy Orchestra
- performs their new score for a screening of the French silent Gallery of Monsters (1924)
- Fri Nov 8 @ 7:00
- Special Pricing: $14 general / $12 students ($3 off for All-Access Pass holders)
- Filmmaker & Cornell alum Andrea Berloff ’95
- presents her film The Kitchen (starring Melissa McCarthy, Elisabeth Moss & Tiffany Haddish)
- Fri Nov 15 @ 7:00
- Experimental filmmaker Malena Szlam
- presents a program of her work, Malena Szlam: Inexistent Time
- Wed Nov 27 @ 7:00