Media Studies End of Semester Screenings

The Spring 2024 End of Semester Screenings will be on Thursday, May 2nd and the program will be from 11am-5pm, and will showcase the Media Studies Senior Projects.

The event will be in Benson Auditorium (PZ Campus).

PASU Presents: A Talk with Ien Chi, Former Creative Director of Jubilee and DIVE Studios

The former Creative Director of the popular YouTube channel Jubilee and Korean Pop celebrities’ podcast studio, DIVE Studios, Ien Chi, is coming to campus! Pasifika Asian Student Union (PASU) is thrilled to announce a featured speaker event with Ien Chi. PASU and Ien will discuss the art of conveying human empowerment through film and media, Ien’s past experiences that led him towards this field, and any advice for college students pursuing creative careers. We will also be opening up a Q&A session for the audience! All 5C community members are welcome to join us at Benson Auditorium from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM! See you there! RSVP LINK: tinyurl.com/PASUxIenChi

Moonlight Club Film Screening and Panel Discussion

The film Moonlight Club is a movie about love, joy, acceptance, and happiness. This film has been shown at multiple screenings and festivals in Japan. The three actors, the director, and a Pitzer alum, Makiko Young, who is involved with the film will all be travelling to Pitzer from Kyoto, Japan and New York, New York, respectively. This showing at Pitzer marks the US debut of this film, which has been newly closed captioned in English, specifically for this US premier.

Annual Sullivan Lecture: Voices of the Rainforest Screening & Discussion

A John D. Sullivan Memorial 7C Event

Steven Feld is an anthropologist, filmmaker, musician, and sound artist. He is an American ethnomusicologist, anthropologist, and linguist, who worked for many years with the Kaluli (Bosavi) people of Papua New Guinea. He earned a MacArthur Fellowship in 1991.

Voices of the Rainforest is an experiential documentary about the ecological and aesthetic coevolution of Papua New Guinea’s Bosavi rainforest region and its inhabitants. The film immerses viewers in the rainforest, making connections between the everyday sounds of the rainforest biosphere and the creative practices of the Bosavi people who sing to, with, and about it.

The film is based on Feld’s 1991 acousmatic composition of the same name, which condensed 24 hours of sounds of the rainforest and the Bosavi people into an hour. Produced by Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, the piece was digitized and recomposed into a surround-sound experience. The success of the soundtrack prompted the digitization of Feld’s archive of Bosavi images and a two-month trip to Bosavi by Feld and filmmaker Jeremiah Richards, who brought high-resolution cameras and drones to renew the project.

Following the screening, Steven Feld will discuss the film with Ruti Talmor, associate professor of media studies.

Refreshments will be provided!