MSUM students participate in 48-hour film competition

After 48 hours of writing, shooting, editing and delivering a short film, a team of MSUM film students won best picture at the Cinethusiasts 48-Hour Film Competition held on MSUM’s campus last weekend. Friday at 7 p.m. teams across the country were given a character and occupation, prop, line of dialogue and a genre. “We had to have a detective/cop […]

Cinethusiasts Club screens Nosferatu

The MSUM Cinethusiasts Club will host a screening of the 1922 Silent Horror classic Nosferatu on Thursday, Oct. 27th at 8:00pm in Glasrud Auditorium, Weld Hall. The screening will feature a live organ accompaniment by Dave Knudson. The event is free and open to the public. For more information contact: Tom Brandau, 701-466-7818 or Brandau@mnstate.edu. Nosferatu screening poster v2(2)(2)

Anthony Adah presented at American culture conference

Cinema Arts Professor Anthony Adah presented a paper, “Food ways: Prolegomenon to Comparative Gustatory Aesthetics in Postcolonial Films,” at the recent Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference in Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 14-16. Adah is the area chair for Indigenous Studies and an at-large executive council member of the Association.

Student, alum presented at American culture conference

Cinema Arts senior Colin Sloan, and alum Jesse Balzer, presented papers at the recent Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference in Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 14-16. Colin, whose paper is titled “Perceived Imagery of Indigenous Cultures in Science Fiction Films,” is a Cinema Arts double emphasis major. Jesse, whose paper is titled “Active Adaptation: From ‘Children With Hangovers’ to ‘Just Visiting’” […]