Category Archives: Film & Media Arts

FMA aluma has acting debut in The Observers

By Chia-Ching Lin | Published: May 14, 2012

Filmmaker Katya Gorker, FMA ’12, takes a turn in front of the camera in her acting debut in Jacqueline Goss’ The Observers, playing a short run this week at Anthology Film Archives in New York. Gorker and Dani Leventhal, also a filmmaker, play climatologists who go about the solitary and steadfast work of measuring and recording the weather on Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. Based in part on the Nathaniel Hawthorne story The Great Carbuncle, the film features the extreme and varying beauty of the windiest mountain in the world.

Reviews of The Observers have appeared in Time Out New … Read more »

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FMA class shows off installation during Diamond Screen

By jcronin | Published: May 11, 2012

At the end of the Spring 2012 semester, students from the Media Arts Theory and Practice class displayed their exhibits in Annenberg’s Studio 2. Here, Paul Hinson displays “How to Build a Bee Box to Attract Solitary Bees.” The interactive exhibit asked viewers to remove screens from a box and place them on a framework to reveal hidden videos.

photos by Ryan S. Brandenberg/Temple University … Read more »

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FMA announces winners of Diamond Screen, departmental awards

By jcronin | Published: May 11, 2012

The 2012 Diamond Screen Film Festival results were announced May 7 at the closing night ceremony at the International House in Philadelphia.

For more information please visit: http://diamondscreen.org/

Diamond Screen Film Festival Awards

Best Long Form Screenplay (Juried by Scott Currie)
Magic Ghetto by Matthew Flocco

Best Short Form Screenplay (Juried by Ian Markiewicz)
Praise and Blame by Shane Book

Web Interactive Design (Jury Award) (Juried by Andrew Nicholas)
Between Leaving & Arriving by Joseph Kraemer

Web Interactive Design (viewer’s favorite) (Online poll winner)
Jake Rasmussen’s Site by Jake Rasmussen

Best Cinematography Film (Juried by Dave Lamm)
Mehul the Music Man by Cameron S. Mitchell

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Moving Camera Olympics test cinematography skills

By jcronin | Published: May 9, 2012

photos by Ryan S. Brandenberg/Temple University

Medals gleaming from their necks, the proud champions celebrated their victories as John Williams’ “Olympic Fanfare” filled Annenberg Hall’s Studio 2.

The events didn’t involve javelins, running shoes or volleyballs. Instead, each competitor was strapped into a Steadicam Pilot. Their goal was to beat their fellow Film and Media Arts students in a series of competitions designed to show off their cinematographic skills.

The “Moving Camera Olympics” were part of the week-long Diamond Screen Film Festival. Over the past semester, the students have honed their skills with this piece of equipment that allows the … Read more »

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Professor Alter, FMA, to discuss sound art at conference

By Chia-Ching Lin | Published: April 18, 2012
What is lost or gained when sound is framed, channeled and put on display in an art context? Professor Nora M. Alter, chair of the Film and Media Arts Department, will present a talk exploring this question at Making Time: Art Across Gallery, Screen, and Stage, a cross-disciplinary arts symposium to be held at the Arts Research Center in Berkeley, Calif., April 19 – 21, 2012. Scholars, artists, presenters and curators will discuss what it means to make, curate and evaluate hybrid art practices. Symposium panels and roundtables will broadly examine the definitions of these art practices, the way

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FMA student to screen work at international conference on Islam in Asia

By Chia-Ching Lin | Published: April 18, 2012
Temple Film and Media Arts MFA student Ambarien Alqadar will present her film The Ghetto Girl at an international conference, New Mobilities and
Evolving Identities: Islam, Youth and Gender in South and Southeast Asia. The event will be held in Berlin, Germany, on April 20 and 21, 2012.
The conference has been organized by the Department for Mediality and Intermediality in Asian and African Studies (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS, Freie Universität Berlin) and by the Cluster of Excellence Normative Orders (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt).
Click here for more information about the conference and screening.

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Augmenting reality

By jcronin | Published: April 11, 2012

Film and Media Arts Associate Professor Sarah Drury has been researching a technology-based art form called augmented reality, in which artists add virtual images to real landscapes that can be viewed through a mobile phone.

Watch Professor Drury discuss her research, an augmented reality exhibit that she curated and her take on the artists who work in this medium.

Video by Ryan Geffert … Read more »

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14th Annual Diamond Screen Film Festival – Call for Entries

By Chia-Ching Lin | Published: March 22, 2012

The Department of Film and Media Arts at Temple University’s School of Communications and Theater will host the Diamond Screen Film Festival May 1-7.

The annual festival has undergone some changes, and will now span over an entire week. On each day the week, films will be shown from 7 to 9 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

The event will take place at The International House located at 3701 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104. There will be an Opening Night Screening on May 1, 2012, from 7-9 p.m., followed by a week of film, video and media-based events. Some … Read more »

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FMA Professor d’Agostino’s work to show at ICA, London

By Chia-Ching Lin | Published: March 21, 2012

FMA Professor Peter d’Agostino’s work will be shown as part of an exhibit at ICA, London, from April 3 to June 10, 2012.

Remote Control includes a range of work by artists who explore the way television shapes contemporary culture, and also highlights a number of contemporaries who are responding to the mediums digital convergence. Coinciding with the digital switchover in the UK, the exhibition marks the end of analog broadcasting—a milestone in the evolution of television. The exhibition includes significant works that examine how television has changed the way artists engage with material and form, and how adopting techniques … Read more »

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FMA professor’s Top Secret Rosies wins Fargo Film Festival honor

By jcronin | Published: March 5, 2012

A film by Associate Professor LeAnn Erickson, FMA, was awarded the Ruth Landfield Award at the 2012 Fargo Film Festival.

The award honors films that profile women of courage, conviction and compassion.

Erickson’s film, Top Secret Rosies, shares the little-known story of a group of female mathematicians who did secret ballistics research for the U.S. Army during WWII.

A letter to Erickson from festival organizer Emily Beck says, “Ruth Landfield was a tremendous advocate and supporter of women in the arts in the Fargo-Moorhead community. The first time I screened your film, I was moved and inspired. … Read more »

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