•••FULL
PROFESSORS
Daniel Boord
is among the second generation of video artists in the Unites States. He is known for his collaboration with Argentine artist Luis Valdovino and their exploration of cultural identity at the edges of globalized corporate culture. He has also collaborated with filmmaker Greg Durbin. Boord and his collaborators explore and test notions of everyday life through the creation of what the art critic and poet David Antin calls "homeless narratives". Boord's works have been twice selected for screening by the La Biennale Di Venezia, the Venice Film festival - once in 2000 and then in 2003. His works have been broadcast on WNET, New York and WGBH, Boston and presented at the International Public Television Conference in Stockholm. His works are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, CA; the Art Museum; University of California, Berkeley and the Everson Museum; Syracuse, NY. His work has been exhibited at the the Toronto International Film Festival; Edinburgh Film Festival, Scotland; Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The Museum of Modern Art; New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Anthology Film Archives, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland; Museo Nacional Reina Sofia Madrid, Spain; International Center of Photography, New York; Black Maria Film/Video Festival; The Black International Cinema festival , Vienna, Austria; Dallas Video Festival, Athens International Film/Video Festival, Athens, OH; The AFI Film/Video Festival, American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA; National Video Festival, American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA.
Bruce
Kawin (303.492.6471) Bruce.Kawin@colorado.edu
(M.F.A., Columbia University; Ph.D. Cornell University), Professor,
rostered half-time in English, teaches classes in film history,
creative writing, and modern British and American literature.
He is extremely prolific having written three books of narrative
theory (Telling It Again and Again: Repetition in Literature
and Film; Mindscreen: Bergman, Godard, and First-Person Film;
and The Mind of the Novel: Reflexive Fiction and the Ineffable),
three books on Faulkner (Faulkner and Film, To Have and Have
Not [ed.], and Faulkner's MGM Screenplays), and How
Movies Work. An introductory "film appreciation" textbook, How Movies Work, is technically comprehensive,
excellent one-volume introduction to film aesthetics as well
as film production.
Finally, beginning with the fifth edition, he has been co-author
of the late Gerald Mast's A Short History of the Movies.
In addition, he has been on the Executive Committee of the Society
for Cinema Studies and the editorial boards of Genders, Post
Script, and Cinema Journal. His talents extend to poetry and
screenwriting. His professional screenwriting includes unsold
treatments for The Godfather Part III and Part IV, the
treatment and first scripts for The Grifters, a basketball
script co-written by Howie Movshovitz (The Starters),
and a new script, based on the works of Arthur Machen (The
Gold Tiberius). Special scholarly interests include William
Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, Jim Thompson, film history, narrative
theory, and the horror film.
Jim
Palmer
(Ph.D. Claremont Graduate School), Professor, Director of the
World Affairs Conference, Director of the Farrand Academic Program,
is the co-author of The Films of Joseph Losey (with
Michael Riley, Cambridge University Press, 1993), and a contributing
editor to Literature/Film Quarterly. Professor Palmer
is the recipient of many teaching awards, including the Presidential
Teaching Scholar Award, the Teacher of the Year Award, and the
Boulder Faculty Assembly Service Award. He has been the Film
Studies Program Director, as well as Acting Vice Chancellor for
Student Affairs, and has distinguished himself in service to
the University on numerous administrative positions. His work
has appeared in Literature/Film Quarterly, and Film
Heritage among other journals. Professor Palmer has lectured
extensively throughout the state and the nation on film, literature
and psychology. He teaches courses on Humanities and Film, Jung,
Film and Literature, Film and the Quest for Truth, and others.
The Conference on World Affairs, which he directs, attracts scholars,
artists and activists from the US and the World to the Boulder
Campus every year.
Phil
Solomon (Macky 119 303.492.3016) Phillip.Solomon@colorado.edu
(M.F.A. Massachusetts College of Art) is an internationally recognized filmmaker and has been teaching both film history/aesthetics and film production at CU since 1991. Professor Solomon’s work has been screened in every major venue for experimental film throughout the U.S. and Europe and he has had 3 Cineprobes (one-man shows) at the Museum of Modern Art and has been twice included in the Whitney Biennial. Professor Solomon’s films have won 9 first prize awards at major international film festivals for experimental film (including seven Juror’s Awards from the Black Maria Film and Video Festival) and he received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993. His films reside in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Massachusetts College of Art, Binghamton University, Hampshire College, The Chicago Art Institute, San Francisco State University, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and the Oberhausen Film Collection. Professor Solomon collaborated on three films with the late Stan Brakhage, who named one of Solomon’s films on his “Top Ten Films of All Time” list for Sight and Sound. Professor Solomon is currently working on a feature length series of short films entitled The Twilight Psalms, a cine-poem of the 20th century. The first three films of this series premiered at the New York Film Festival, where Walking Distance was cited by critic Stephen Holden of the New York Times as being 'supremely lyrical'. Professor Solomon has recently received a commission from the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. to create a six- channel digital installation entitled American Falls, currently scheduled to open in the Corcoran rotunda in spring 2006. He has also begun work on a book entitled A Snail’s Trail in the Moonlight: Conversations with Brakhage, transcriptions of several years of Brakhage’s film salons.
•••ASSOCIATE
PROFESSORS
Melinda
Barlow (Macky 223 303.492.3291) barlowm@spot.colorado.edu
(Ph.D., New York University), Associate Professor, taught at New York University, New York’s School of Visual Arts, and at Queens College, City University of New York, before coming to CU in 1996. The editor of Mary Lucier: Art and Performance (2000), published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, Professor Barlow is a film and video historian who specializes in the work of contemporary independent women film and videomakers. Her articles have appeared in such publications as Camera Obscura, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Millennium Film Journal, Art Journal, Performing Arts Journal, Art in America, Afterimage, Sculpture, American Theatre, and the Spanish animation journal Animac. A recipient of the Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Award in Video Criticism from the Video Data Bank as well as the Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award, the Dorothy Martin Woman Faculty Award, and the Junior Faculty Development Award from the University of Colorado, Professor Barlow was awarded a Fellowship from CU’s Center for the Humanities and the Arts in 2005 to participate in their "Powers of Wonder" Seminar. The founder of the Leah Kelly Memorial Award, the first CU Film Studies Program award in the critical study of cinema, Professor Barlow is the Honors Council representative for Film Studies, and the Faculty Advisor for the Undergraduate Academy Lead TA Pre-Prof Program. She teaches Film History I & II, a popular course on Women and Film, and a series of specialized upper-level seminars on various decades of American film history. She is currently at work on a series of essays on experimental filmmaker Janie Geiser titled Curiosa in Motion: Automata, Dioramas, and Celluloid Reliquaries, and her book Lost Objects of Desire: Video Installation, Mary Lucier, and the Romance of History, is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press.
Suranjan
Ganguly (303.492.3377) ganguly@stripe.colorado.edu
(Ph.D.
Purdue University) is chair of Film Studies. He is the author
of Satyajit Ray: In Search of the Modern. His work has
appeared in Sight and Sound, Film Criticism, East-West Quarterly
Review, Ariel, The Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad,
Journal of South Asian Literature, and Asian Cinema. He
is currently working on a book on Adoor Gopalakrishnan, India's
most distinguished contemporary filmmaker. A specialist in international
cinema, Professor Ganguly teaches a wide range of courses that
cover European, Asian, African, and Middle Eastern cinema. Originally
from Calcutta, Prof. Ganguly studied at St. Xavier's College
and Jadavpur University before coming to the US. His Ph.D. dissertation
was a study of the work of Satyajit Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson,
and Virginia Woolf.
•••ASSISTANT
PROFESSORS
Ernesto
Acevedo-Muñoz (303.735.2322) Ernesto.Acevedo@colorado.edu
(Ph.D., University of Iowa), (Ph.D., University of Iowa), is Associate Professor & Associate Director of the Film Studies Program. He is the author of the books Pedro Almod—var (BFI, 2007) and Bu–uel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema (University of California Press, 2003) and winner of the Leslie & Woody Eaton Faculty Award for Excellence in Research in the Humanities & the Arts. Prof. Acevedo-Mu–oz is the recipient of grants from the CU Council on Research and Creative Work, the Graduate Committee on the Arts & Humanities, and a co-winner of the Vice ChancellorŐs Diversity and Equity award. At CU he teaches film theory, film & literature, Latin American and Spanish cinemas & culture, Hollywood genres, and courses on Luis Bu–uel & Pedro Almod—var, Stanley Kubrick, and Alfred Hitchcock. Professor Acevedo-Mu–ozŐs work has appeared in Quarterly Review of Film & Video, Film & History, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, After Hitchcock: Imitation-Influence-Intertextuality, Healing Cultures: Art and Religion in the Caribbean and its Diaspora, Bu–uel Siglo XXI and Genre, Gender, Race & World Cinema. Professor Acevedo-Mu–oz has lectured and spoken in meetings and conferences in the U.S., the U.K., Mexico, Canada and Puerto Rico, his native country. A graduate of the University of Puerto Rico (B.A. 1991) and the University of Iowa (M.A. 1994, Ph.D. 1998), Prof. Acevedo-Mu–oz also studied in the film production workshop at New York University in Manhattan. He has taught at New York University in Madrid, Spain, and at the University of Iowa, where he was also a research and dissertation fellow. At the University of Colorado since 1998, Dr. Acevedo-Mu–oz holds a joint membership with the Department of Comparative Literature & Humanities. He is currently making a movie called HillmonŐs Bones, writing a book tentatively entitled The Most Beautiful Sound That I Ever Heard: West Side Story and researching a book on questions of film theory in Latin American cinemas.
Clark
Farmer
(Ph.D.
University of Iowa), Assistant Professor, taught at the University
of Iowa, the University of Michigan, and Clark University before
coming to CU in 2003. He was awarded a Fulbright in 1999 to conduct
research on opera and the New German Cinema. His teaching interests
include German cinema, film theory, film and the other arts,
gender and film, popular Asian cinemas, and studio-era Hollywood
film.
Kathleen
Man (Macky 220 303.735.5081) man@colorado.edu
(M.A./M.F.A. University of Iowa), Assistant Professor, Kathleen
Man was a 1999 Fulbright Fellow in Paris, France, during which
time she made L’Entretien (The Interview), a French-language
film which has since played in numerous international festivals
and garnered awards at the 2003 Colorado Biennial, the 36th Humboldt
International Short Film Festival, the Ashland Independent Film
Festival and the Toronto Online Film Festival. L’Entretien
will be released later this year on Volume 3 of the Shorts! DVD
series, an international collection of award-winning short films.
Kathleen received an M.F.A. in Film and Video Production from
the University of Iowa in 2000, and holds an M.A. in Communication
Studies from the University of Iowa and a B.A. with honors and
distinction in Film Studies from Yale University. Kathleen has
been an assistant professor of film production in the Film Studies
Program at CU since 2001. She teaches 16mm narrative filmmaking,
screenwriting, and digital post-production. Kathleen is now in
post-production on a feature-length docu-drama focusing on child
trafficking in Nepal, and is also in pre-production with her
brother Gabriel Man on the feature-length film “The Story
of ‘Umi,”set in their native Hawaii, slated to begin
production in 2005.
•••INSTRUCTORS
Jerry
Aronson (303.492.2949)
(M.F.A., Institute of Design, Chicago) Mr. Aronson, a Senior Instructor, is a distinguished documentary filmmaker and teacher. One of his best-known films is The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg, a winner of the International Documentary Association Award in 1993, a finalist for a Peabody award, as well as over 250 national and international awards and screenings. The 2 disk, 7 hour DVD set will be released in April of 2005 by New Yorker Films. His film The Divided Trail earned an Academy Award Nomination for best documentary short in 1978, won the Aspen Film Festival Grand Prize and was broadcast on a special PBS series in 1980 entitled: Matters of Life and Death. His six-hour documentary mini-series American Music: The Roots of Country aired to wide acclaim on TBS in 1996. He has won grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and the National Endowment of the Humanities. He also collaborated with Stan Brakhage and been involved in numerous theater productions. Among his many other award winning films are Fun With Lines, Old Glory Marching Society, Superstars, and Options. Mr. Aronson teaches intermediate and advanced film production, primarily focusing on the video based advanced production class: Making the Personal Documentary. Mr. Aronson has been with the department for over 30 years. He is responsible for establishing the Production Department within Film Studies with founder Virgil Grillo in 1973, established the successful internship program in 1979 and was instrumental in establishing our BA/BFA film major in 1989.
Don Yannacito yannacit@spot.colorado.edu
(M.A. University of Colorado at Denver) Senior Instructor, has been teaching Beginning Super 8 film classes to new students in our program since 1978. In addition to teaching Super 8 filmmaking for over 26 years, Mr. Yannacito has also taught "The History of Avant-Garde Film" with Sally Dixon and a beginning 16mm production course. In his capacity as a film programmer and curator of the First Person Cinema Program, Mr. Yannacito has been bringing independent films and filmmakers to the University of Colorado for over 35 years. He has been a judge and reviewer on numerous panels for grants and fellowships, and has had some of his writing on the field published in Rolling Stock magazine and the Colorado Daily newspaper. Mr. Yannacito has also been a staff member of the Film Studies Program and assistant to the chair for over 30 years.
•••RECENT ADJUNCTS
Adjuncts who have taught for Film Studies include: J. Gluckstern has made several short films and is the visual arts critic for the Boulder Daily Camera. He has taught beginning and intermediate filmmaking. Stacy Steers has been working as an indepedent animator since the early 80s. Her prize winning films include Watunna (1989) and Totem (1998). She has taught a very popular animation class. Russ Wiltse runs New Frontier Productions and is co-owner of Flat Nine Films, specializing in experimental narrative and documentary films. He has taught the art of digital post-production. Patti Bruck is a film and video maker, curator and critic. She has taught beginning and intermediate filmmaking.
