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Arthouse celebrates 100 Years! with Professor Ross Melnick

This week on INSIDE THE ARTHOUSE, we discuss the One Hundred Year anniversary of Arthouse film with professor, historian, author and Academy Film Scholar, Ross Melnick. Join us for a lively conversation about the amazing history of arthouse film: Where it started, how far it’s come, and where is it today. Greg Laemmle, CEO of … Continued

Mapping Alzheimer’s: UCSB’s Cristina Venegas follows a genetic puzzle tracing Alzheimer’s roots from Colombia to California

There’s a set of childhood memories that UC Santa Barbara film and media studies professor Cristina Venegas returns to once in a while, recollections that stand out because of their peculiar nature. “I have memories of being a child in Montería, which is an interesting city, and it’s on the banks of the Sinú river,” … Continued

Infrastructure and Abstraction

Organized by graduate students at USC, “Infrastructure and Abstraction” is a conference that explores the tensions between what is considered “concrete” and “abstract” within the infrastructural turn of media studies. It features papers and talks on a wide range of media objects and sites of mediation, presented by both emerging and established scholars, including UCSB … Continued

Media Inside Out conference honors pioneers and provocations in film and media studies

Debra Herrick April 15, 2024 form The Current Dozens of mediamakers and scholars will convene on campus for the conference Media Inside Out (April 25–26) to reflect and speculate on the field of film and media studies, its origins and its futures. As a focal point, participants will also engage, think and play with the … Continued

Fossil Free Exhibition Sheds Light on Student Activism

The latest UC Santa Barbara Library Exhibit praises the power of student activism to create environmental change. Located in the Ocean Gallery, this exhibition engages students with the archival blueprints of the Fossil Free UC grassroots campaign. In 2019, the University of California Board of Regents announced its divestment from fossil fuels, a direct effect … Continued

Coastal Media Project student documentaries to screen at Santa Barbara International Film Festival

“841” and “The Salt on Our Skin” are both part of the festival’s Santa Barbara Documentary Shorts programming, which begins at 8:40 p.m. on Feb. 13 and 5:40 p.m. on Feb. 16 at Metro 4 Theatre (618 State St). The student filmmakers will be on hand after each screening to talk about their movies and … Continued

Adventuresome filmmaking meets theory, technique and environmental education (The Coastal Media Project in The Current)

Each summer, the Coastal Media Project filmmaking bootcamp at UC Santa Barbara culminates with long days and nights of editing and final touches ahead of a public showing of student-crafted documentaries, each an environmental short that’s conceptualized, shot, edited and screened in just nine weeks. This year’s films reflect a range of storytelling as diverse … Continued

Cheri Steinkellner’s ‘Summer Stock” at The Goodspeed theater.

Summer Stock July 7 – Aug 27, 2023 Forget your troubles—come on, get happy! The tradition of turning a barn into a theater finds fertile new ground in a joyous world premiere inspired by the classic Judy Garland-Gene Kelly movie. When theatrical Gloria invites fellow troupers to the family farm with the idea of putting … Continued

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Tara Plath provides project coordination and supporting research for Border Forensics’ most recent investigation “Mission Accomplished? The Deadly Effects of Border Control in Niger”

The investigative agency Border Forensics has launched their most recent report, “Mission Accomplished? The Deadly Effects of Border Control in Niger” with project coordination and supporting research provided by Tara Plath. The investigation applied remote sensing and geospatial analysis to challenge the reported success of Law No. 2015-36, adopted in May 2015 by the Parliament … Continued