Category: Film

CAMS grad Ken Wang ’15 just completed the “Sound Design for Visual Media” program at Vancouver Film School.

Laska Jimsen, Assistant Professor of Cinema & Media Studies at Carleton, in collaboration with Jason Coyle, Assistant Professor at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, presented their new film, Deer of North America, to a packed audience in the Bentson Mediateque at the Walker Art Center on October 14.

CAMS majors Kayla Rudess ’18 and Rachel Everett ’18 have joined the cast and crew of Tuscaloosa, an independent feature film set in Alabama in the 1970s, currently on location in Northfield.

CAMS professors Laska Jimsen and Catherine Licata have films screening at the Walker Art Center and the New Hampshire Film Festival and Carol Donelan has essay published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video.

Jillian Banner’s 2017 CAMS comps film, Frontier, a documentary on female bull riders, has been accepted to the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College in NYC.

CAMS majors Chris Griffin ’17, Camille Sanchez ’17, Zach Leonard ’17, Claire Tan ’18, Lea Gould ’19, and Isaac Reynaldo ’19 hosted CAMS Fest 2017 in the Weitz Cinema on the evening of Thursday, June 2.

In February, CAMS Assistant Professor Laska Jimsen was on the panel “I Am Not a Filmmaker: The Films of Marcel Broodthaers” at the Walker Art Center where she screened an excerpt of her video, Deer of North America, a collaboration with Jason Coyle.

The Humanities Center at Carleton recently hosted a reception for Jay Beck, Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Studies, to celebrate the publication of his new book, Designing Sound: Audiovisual Aesthetics in 1970s American Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2016).

Catherine Licata, Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, premiered her short film Pet Friendly in competition at the 2017 Dallas International Film Festival on March 31 and April 1.