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08/04/2025

🎬 Visible Evidence ###I is now taking place in Philadelphia!

This Wednesday, August 6, at 5pm at the Suzanne Roberts Theater there will be a special screening + discussion of We Pick Up the Camera with acclaimed filmmaker Louis Massiah (Scribe Video Center, moderated by scholar Clemencia Rodríguez (Temple University).

Rooted in the legacy of the Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing, this session explores participatory community media as a force for collective memory, healing, and organizing.

This event is part of Visible Evidence ###I — the premier documentary and nonfiction media conference, happening August 3–7 across Temple University’s Center City campus and nearby venues.

🗓️ FREE for students, faculty & staff — just select the free option at checkout!
🔗 Full schedule + registration: visibleevidence.org

📍 Suzanne Roberts Theater | 480 S. Broad St.

This event is presented with support from Swarthmore College’s Aydelotte Foundation and Dept. of Film & Media Studies

07/29/2025

Support cinema for liberation! Join BlackStar Film Festival this July 31 – Aug 3 in person in Philadelphia or online around the globe for four days of ground-breaking films from Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists.

Film & Media Studies is partnering with BlackStar on the Friday, August 1, 11:30am screening of The Shadow Scholars in the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, with Q&A by Swarthmore's Assistant Professor of Black Studies Jamal Batts.

Check out the full schedule and get tickets to individual screenings or an all-access pass: blackstarfest.org/festival

07/25/2025

Film & Media Studies is partnering with BlackStar Film Festival on the Friday, August 1, 11:30am screening of The Shadow Scholars in the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, with Q&A by Swarthmore's Assistant Professor of Black Studies Jamal Batts.

Discover ground-breaking indie film from the global majority at this year’s BlackStar Film Festival taking place July 31 – Aug 3 in-person in Philadelphia and online around the globe! Check out the schedule and get your tickets or pass: blackstarfest.org/festival

01/23/2025

Peter Bart '54, Hollywood journalist and producer, will visit via Zoom on Tuesday, January 28, at 7pm. Join us in the Scheuer Room! Open to the campus community.

10/22/2024

In the late 1980s, the East German Film Studio DEFA produced a series of environmentalist films. A prominent example is Rolf Losansky’s 1989 film Farewell Disco, which symbolically addresses the ecological and social problems of (East) German society. In addition to experimental film sequences and sharp humor, Farewell Disco is perfused with criticism of an energy policy that benefits the state but leaves deep scars in the social fabric. The film is an appeal for reassessing the tenets of democracy, and finding meaning in respect, inclusiveness, and engagement.

Film screening on October 27 at 7pm in SCI 199. Lecture by Dr. Mariana Ivanova on October 28 at 3pm in SCI 199.

This event is organized by the German Studies section of the Modern Languages and Literatures Department and is made possible by the generous support of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Washington, DC, as part of their “Germany on Campus” initiative, along with the Environmental Studies Program and the Lang Center at Swarthmore College.

10/17/2024

Interested in film production? Semester Cinema is a fully accredited semester-long study away program that immerses students in every aspect of producing an ambitious feature film for national release. Attend a screening of samples from films made by students in the program and a Q&A with filmmakers and former students! Taking place at 7pm on Thursday, October 24, in Sci 199.

10/15/2024

Through experimental cinematography and sound, unseen reimagines the accessibility of cinema, while exploring the intersections of immigration, disability, and mental health. unseen is a winner of a 2024 Film Independent Spirit Award.

Screening 7pm on Wednesday, October 23, in the LPAC Cinema. The film will be followed by a discussion with director, producer, writer, cinematographer, and editor Set Hernandez and protagonist and co-writer Pedro.

A Cooper Series event.

10/10/2024

The Kaori Kitao Fund for Cinema History presents a Swarthmore community screening of Forever a Woman (1955) on Tuesday, October 22, at 7pm in SCI 199.

This recently restored classic by Tanaka Kinuyo, Japan’s pioneering woman director and acclaimed film actress, tells the story of a recent divorcée (Yumeji Tsukioka) who is diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer. Adapting the real-life story of the poet Fumiko Nakajo, the film investigates issues of mortality, sexuality, and female independence with a frankness and audacity unprecedented in postwar Japanese cinema. — Criterion Channel

Introduced by Professor Patricia White, Centennial Professor of Film and Media Studies, author of Women's Cinema, World Cinema. Sponsored by Film and Media Studies and the Japanese Section of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Refreshments will be served.

09/30/2024

Join the Aydelotte Foundation, Swarthmore College Libraries, and the Teaching and Learning Commons for the Aydelotte Media, Art, and Technology Speaker Series: Dr. Matthew Kirschenbaum, “10 Things I’m Not Going to Talk about in this Talk about Artificial Intelligence”. Wednesday, October 9, at 4:15pm in SCI 199. Reception will follow the talk.

Matthew Kirschenbaum is the author of three books on digital technology and writes for venues such as the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He is currently completing a book on AI entitled "Textpocalypse."

There will also be a workshop at 11am on October 9 with a catered lunch in the LibLab at McCabe library. Spaces are limited. Register here: https://forms.gle/aeAuEho9ejeWx7Gd8

09/17/2024

We had a blast ringing in the new semester at the FMST Fall Ice Cream Social!

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