Mondays in July feature silent films Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Summer Cinema Series continues tonight with The Black Pirate, a 1926 action adventure film featuring Douglas Fairbanks. The story involves a young nobleman whose father is killed by pirates.
The Fabulous Ice Age, a film about the history of figure skating by MSUM Art & Design alum Keri Pickett, ’82, is set to premiere at the Minneapolis International Film Festival Sunday, April 14, at the St. Anthony Main Theater in Minneapolis. Pickett is the director, producer and director of photography of the film, and says she learned to become […]
The Film Loop Journal is seeking submissions for its upcoming edition. If you have an article relating to film, including film reviews or essays on cinema, please send them to Conor Holt at holtco@mnstate.edu. Articles should be between 200-300 words long. The deadline is Monday, March 25. The next edition of the Journal will be published Thursday, March 28.
Thirty students from Cinema Arts & Digital Technologies attended a lecture on adapting literature to film, given by award-winning Minnesota author, Will Weaver. The presentation, “From Fiction to Film”, took place March 4 at the Fargo Main Library and focused primarily on the adaptation of Weaver’s short story, “A Gravestone Made of Wheat” into the motion picture “Sweet Land,” which […]
Keri Pickett, an alum of the MSUM Department of Art & Design, has a launched a fundraising campaign to support work on a feature-length documentary she has recently completed filming, “The Fabulous Ice Age.” Highlighted in the film is the story of skating pioneers Eddie and Roy Shipstad and Oscar Johnson, who started out entertaining people on the ponds of […]