Two filmmakers are coming to Union this month to showcase their work and reflect on their careers.
At 7 p.m. on Oct. 25 in Visual Arts room 215, media artist Leslie Thornton will screen and discuss several works that conceptually explore the outer parameters of ethnographic and narrative form through film, video, photography and installation. Thornton has been honored with numerous awards, including the Maya Deren Award and the first Alpert Award in the Arts for Media. She is currently a professor of Media at Brown University.
Thornton’s talk is sponsored by the departments of Visual Arts and Women’s and Gender Studies.
On Tuesday, Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. in the F.W. Olin Center Auditorium, documentary filmmaker Christopher Moore will screen "¿Puedo Hablar? May I Speak?” which chronicles three months of the volatile 2006 Venezuelan presidential elections. Photographs Moore shot while on location will be on display in the Olin Rotunda during his visit.
A 2006 graduate of Trinity College, Moore’s work has been featured on Al Gore’s “CurrentTV” and has been screened on five continents in addition to the Bronx Film Festival and the prestigious D.C. Shorts Festival.
Moore's talk is sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program and the departments of Visual Arts, History and Political Science.
Both Thornton's and Moore's visits are free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Lorraine Morales Cox, assistant professor of Contemporary Art & Theory, at (518) 388-8038 or coxl@union.edu.