A talk with filmaker and artist James N. Kienitz Wilkins about his practice ranging from 2012-present, covering short and feature film work, performative experiments, and art exhibitions. Free and open to the public. To sign up for...Read more about Perspectives on Performance: James N. Kienitz Wilkins
The Office for the Arts at Harvard presents Off Camera, a monthly series of live conversations, hosted by film and TV producer, Nicholas Weinstock ’91, with dynamic actors, writers...
Do you have a great idea for a feature film or TV show, but aren’t sure where to start? The OFA is hosting a series of three hands-on workshops – led by young alumni working professionally in their fields – for pitching, directing and producing your film debut. SPACE IS LIMITED (15 slots...
Do you have a great idea for a feature film or TV show, but aren’t sure where to start? The OFA is hosting a series of three hands-on workshops – led by young alumni working professionally in their fields – for pitching, directing and producing your film debut. SPACE IS LIMITED (15 slots), and...
Do you have a great idea for a feature film or TV show, but aren’t sure where to start? The OFA is hosting a series of three hands-on workshops – led by young alumni working professionally in their fields – for pitching, directing and producing your film debut. SPACE IS LIMITED...
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Young Pazu is an inventor who dreams of finding Laputa—a peaceful floating island in the sky built by an advanced, long-gone civilization. When Sheeta, a mysterious girl, literally falls (well, rather floats) out of the...
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
POSTPONED.
Filmed in 1970, right around the time of the Yodo Incident, when the Japanese Red Army hijacked a Japan Airlines plane and flew it to North Korea. The protagonist is an aphasic young boy who meets, on one of his regular...
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
POSTPONED.
Woven into this narrative are director Kanai Katsu's experiences and the history of postwar Japan, as well as a series of fantasies, this film follows an extremely simple story of a plain boy who matures...
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
This event is postponed.
5 Centimeters Per Second: Its title the measure of the time it takes for a cherry blossom to drift to Earth, Shinkai’s three-part romantic drama of longing, love and loss recounts...
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Co-directed with Yoshio Suzuki, Makoto Shinkai's remarkable feature film debut at the age of thirty-two immediately established him as a talented filmmaker with a unique vision. His sci-fi scenario is set in a Japan that has been divided into the Union-controlled North and the US-controlled South. When their mutual friend...Read more about The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Director Kelly Reichardt visits Harvard as a 2019-2020 Baby Jane Holzer Visiting Artist in Film. Scarcity is a defining logic and theme of Reichardt’s films, equally expressed in their carefully distilled stories as in the modest productions that resourcefully glean complex meaning from each measured performance and...Read more about Wendy and Lucy
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Set almost entirely within the historic past of 1820s Oregon, First Cow explores a touching and politically astute vision of early America seen from the other side: the West Coast as inhabited by immigrants from around the world intermingled with already endangered indigenous people and aimless drifters, all determined to...Read more about First Cow
Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall, 8 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Join the Radcliffe Institute for a special event during which fellows across the creative arts open their studio doors to reveal their creative processes. Learn more about the music, film, artworks, performances, and books that Radcliffe’s community of artists have under way in Byerly Hall. Participating...Read more about Radcliffe Open Studios
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
The long career of Patricio Guzmán as a documentarian and activist has courageously focused on the turbulent, tragic history of his native Chile since the 1973 overthrow of Leftist President Salvador Allende— the world’s first democratically elected Socialist leader—by the US-backed repressive dictator Augusto Pinochet....Read more about Patricio Guzmán's Chile Trilogy
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Inspired in part by the recent restoration of Buñuel’s L’Age d’Or by the Cinémathèque Française, presented now in its full seventy-five minute version, as well as the atavistic celebration of Valentine’s Day, whose own dark origins have been furtively repressed, the Harvard Film Archive offers a selection of classic...Read more about Amour Fou