Friday, Oct. 5 | 7 p.m. | Glasrud Auditorium, Weld Hall As part of Homecoming festivities MSUM’s School of Media Arts & Design presents an evening of short films created by their Film alumni. The six award-winning filmmakers will screen some of their most recent projects including, Zach Wentz’s space drama, “HAM,” which just took top honors in the LA […]
The School of Media Arts & Design was well represented at this year’s Twin Cities Film Festival, with ten Film/Animation students in attendance (all members of the Film Loop Club) who spent a long weekend watching award-winning films and attending industry workshops and three films screened, showcasing ten MSUM Film alumni.
The School of Media Arts & Design played a major role at this year’s South Dakota Film Festival. Last weekend SoMAD faculty including Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson, Don Clark and Tom Brandau accompanied 30 students to Aberdeen, SD for three days of film screenings, workshops and discussions. The highlight of the weekend was watching Film Studies alumnus, Conor Holt, receive the Best […]
Two seniors, Conor Holt and Simone Leclaire, of Cinema Arts & Digital Technologies presented research papers at the Midwest Popular and American Culture Association Conference, Columbus, Ohio Oct 12-14. Holt’s paper is titled “Cinema Go Bragh: Irish Nationalism in Celtic Tiger Cinema” and Leclaire’s “Eyes of the Lady: Perspectives and Cinematic Representations of Women in New Danish Cinema.” Leclaire’s paper […]
Anthony Adah, Film Studies, and Film Studies Honors Apprentice, Simone LeClaire, co-presented a paper titled, “Love and Desire in Failed States: Melodrama and Nationhood in Nollywood Video Films” at the biennial Film & History Conference, Nov. 11-14 in Milwaukee. The paper analyzed the formal and stylistic suitability of this genre for addressing times of socio-political crises.