Community Video Project Screening

Film students collaborate with community members On Friday, Dec.2, MSUM Film Studies students will showcase films made for community organizations. The screening begins at 7:30 p.m. in the MSUM Library, Room 103. The films are the result of a class taught by Ray Rea. Students work with organizations to create short films that promote and explain the work of the […]

Two Worlds Collide

By: Danielle Rebel, Marketing & Communications Intern Deaf culture inspires award-winning student film Miah Detjen’s first language isn’t English. It’s not Spanish, French, German or Arabic. Her first language is American Sign Language (ASL). Detjen, a junior film production major and English minor, grew up with a deaf father, learning to sign before she learned to speak. When Ray Rea, […]

Film Studies profs to exhibit new work at Athens film, video festival

Film Studies professors Ray Rea and Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson will be exhibiting new work at the 2010 Athens International Film and Video Festival. Both works combine elements of documentary, animation and experimental practice. Rea’s work, Cat’s Cradle, combines 16mm animation and analog rotoscope techniques with digital effects to tell a visual story of trial, error, and forgiveness. Kristjansson’s 30-minute documentary, Sveit, was shot in a rural village on the north coast of Iceland. The filmmaker traces her family’s history and emigration from Iceland to the United States, while unpacking memories and stories of her grandfather’s experience as a New American in North Dakota. Click headline to read more.