P. Adams Sitney
Summer 2011

P. Adams Sitney is currently a Professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. He is the author of Visionary Film, the foundational, fundamental text on American avant-garde filmmaking. Asco-founder of Anthology Film Archives in New York City, Professor Sitney is an eminent critic and theorist. He is an outstanding teacher as well as scholar.

Keum Hyun Han
Fall 2009

Keum Hyun Han received her PhD in Visual Art at Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, S. Korea 2007. The title of her PhD dissertation is Study on the Paradigm Shift of Korean Contemporary Photography. Based on her studies, Han organized “39(2)”, Korean contemporary photography exhibition (Seoul, 2008) just before she came to the Film Studies in CU at Boulder. Han also organized many exhibitions such as “The Voyeurs” (Seoul, 2007), “Conflict of Images” (Seoul, 2007) and participated in “Fast Forward” (Frankfurt, 2005), “Comical & Cynical” (Osaka 2007, Seoul 2008), “Platform Seoul 2008: I have nothing to say but I am saying it” (Seoul, 2008), etc. Han will introduce contemporary Korean art to the CU campus and she will also contribute to exchange programs and exhibitions between CU and S. Korea. Her research interests include the exploration of the boundary between photography and moving images. She is interested in the representation of time and space in photography and the moving image and while in the US she will develop materials for exchanges and exhibitions. Han’s three-year research plan in Film Studies is expected to focus on diverse cultural issues as expressed through both the medium of photography and that of the moving image.

Tom Gunning
Summer 2009

Professor Gunning's research focuses on problems of film style and interpretation, film history and film culture. His groundbreaking book on silent cinema, D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film traces the ways in which film style interacted with new economic structures in the early American film industry and with new tasks of storytelling. In addition to two other books, Professor Gunning has published over one-hundred articles. In addition to being an outstanding scholar, Professor Gunning is an excellent teacher

Emily Verge
Spring 2009

Emilie Vergé is a Ph student at the Université de Paris-3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, currently preparing a dissertation on the experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage. In 2009, she received a grant from the Terra Foundation for the American Arts, and came to do research in the United States. She has been a visting scholar at New York University (and studied at the MoMA and the Anthology Film Archives). Since the beginning of 2010, she is a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado in Boulder. More generally, her research and writings focus on the visual nature of images, and modernist art forms (especially in film, but also in painting and poetry). She also did an extensive research on the French filmmaker Philippe Garrel.

Emmy award winning producer Elliot Caplan served as filmmaker in residence at the Cunningham Dance Foundation from 1983 until January 1998, collaborating with Merce Cunningham and John Cage in the production of films and videos.

From 1996-2000, Caplan served as segment producer for PBS’s national series on art in America, “EGG,” and received an Emmy Award and Cine Golden Eagle for “Outstanding Cultural Programming.” Caplan’s other work includes theater design and direction. In collaboration with Tony award winning performer Bill Irwin, Caplan designed an evening of theater and video, which was presented at The Roundabout Theatre in New York, June 1999. In 1998, Elliot Caplan founded Picture Start Films to produce artistic and commercial media projects and bring artists together to express their ideas in an open forum.

“Both individually and in collaboration, Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder are creating some of the most innovative and engaging light works of the present time. I hesitate to say ‘films’, since their work, though it is grounded in an understanding and application of celluloid, goes beyond a general understanding of what film is, taking into consideration the architecture and circumstances of the performance / viewing situation and the physical and emotional presence of light itself. From the inventive ways that they create images on the film strip to the use of multiple projection that often incorporates live performance, Gibson and Recoder are two of the most vital young artists working in the field of ‘expanded cinema’.” Mark Webber, The Times BFI London Film Festival.

Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder have screened their work at the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), Anthology Film Archives (NY), The Kitchen (NY), Ballroom Marfa (Marfa), Cinema Project (Portland), Cal Arts (Valencia), Images Festival (Toronto), Institute for Contemporary Art (London), International Film Festival Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Museu do Chiado (Lisbon), RIXC (Latvia), Image Forum (Tokyo).  Recoder and Gibson are currently visiting faculty for the Film Studies Program at the University of Colorado @ Boulder.

Jean-Pierre Gorin
Summer 2007

began his filmmaking career in the mid Sixties. After meeting filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard the two created the infamous Dziga Vertov Group which has long been recognized as seminal to the period of radical filmmaking of the late Sixties and early Seventies. They are historically significant for their pioneering critical reexamination of film "language" and its ideological implications. During his time with the Dziga Vertov Group, Gorin and Godard codirected several overtly political films. In 1975 Gorin left France to join the faculty of the UCSD Visual Arts Department. At UCSD his investigation of narrative led him toward documentary. He attempted to redefine the parameters of the genre in a series of three essay films which form a Southern California trilogy. These films have been selected for major film festivals both in Europe and the US. Gorin has remained at UCSD where he teaches courses in film history and criticism.

Jean-Pierre Gorin will be offering a course "B" term summer 2007, July 10 to August 10. He will offer FILM 4010/ARTF 5010: Film/Cultures, an exploration of film at the intersections of art and culture. The course has as its goal a book/object, produced as it were in the "flow," with an emphasis of graphic and visual strategies and the integration/utilization of new media technological elements.

Nathaniel Dorsky
Fall 2007

Nathaniel Dorsky has been making films within the avant-garde tradition since 1964, exhibiting and receiving honors at the Museum of Modern Art, the Lincoln Center and the Whitney Museum in New York, and the Louvre and Centre Pompidou in Paris, as well as showing at the New York Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive, the Toronto Film Festival and more. He also received the Emmy Award for art cinematography, for Gauguin in Tahiti (1967), as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship.

Julie Murray
Fall 2006 - Spring 2007

Julie Murray was born in Dublin, Ireland, where she received Degree in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. As a Fulbright Scholar, she moved to San Francisco to pursue her post-graduate studies. She has shown at the Hong Kong International Film Festival, 41st NY film festival, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney, Pacific Film Archives, and the International Film Festival in Rotterdam Netherlands.