2023 Fall MFA Documentary Film Screening
355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305
Screening of films by first-year MFA students in the Documentary Film Program. A Q&A with filmmakers will immediately follow the screening. Free & open to the public.
Featured Films:
Outside of The Frame by Yue Wu
The documentary filmmaker chronicles her experiences as both filmmaker and an individual navigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in China through a personal letter written to her late grandmother.
After the Race by Yuxuan Ethan Wu
The closure of the Bay Area's last racetrack brings uncertainty to the local community, but does the horse know?
The Bomb by Elisa Leiva Anderson
The aftermath of The Bomb has left behind fragments of silence, of static forgetting. A daughter’s encounter with her father sets in motion images that have long remained stagnant.
Modèle – The Making of the Model by Sofia Stærmose Hardt
Following figure models who use their labor to control what bodies are seen, Modèle is a material meditation on the act of representation. Which bodies are represented and for what purpose?
Forever California by Zach Ben-Amots
A group of Silicon Valley billionaires have set out to build a new city in Solano County, making them the latest in a long line of California’s wealthiest residents — who all share an insatiable commitment to “manifest destiny.”
As I witness by Pamela Martinez
The act of writing collapses the past and the present into the dissonant experience of witnessing the colonization of the body.
My heart is on fire, I lit it. by Alem Kent
An uprooted filmmaker’s pain and longing becomes palpable in peace.
VISITOR INFORMATION: Oshman Hall is located in the McMurtry Building on Stanford campus at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is free all day on weekends and after 4 pm on weekdays, except by the Oval. Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. If you need a disability-related accommodation or wheelchair access information, please contact Julianne Garcia at juggarci [at] stanford.edu (juggarci[at]stanford[dot]edu).
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