We’re excited to have filmmaker Stephen Maing on site this week as a Sainsbury Film and Media visiting artist. Last night we screened Union by Brett Story and Stephen Maing and today (Wed March 26, starting at 2:30pm) Stephen will be giving an artist talk, titled: “Breaking and Remaking the Character-Driven Documentary“ About the talk: “Empathy for individual protagonists, and their story arcs, are the lifeblood of many documentary films. What are some drawbacks of character-driven storytelling, and how can we expand documentary vocabulary and form to convey complex stories of power and collectivity? Stephen Maing will draw on his own films and experiences to explore these timely and critical questions.” More info about his visit: https://fm.hunter.cuny.edu/mar-25-26-visiting-artist-stephen-maing/ More about his work: https://www.stephenmaing.com #StephenMaing #VisitingArtist #discussion #Sainsbury #UnionFilm (photo credit: Kim Buikema) @huntercollege @hunterartsandsciences

IMA community member Tobias Fandel @tobiasfandel co-curates the Overdrive Festival @overdrive.nyc which he co-founded with artist Itzá García @itza.garcia.ordonez in 2024. The festival aims to bring artistic practices into contact with contemporary media technologies. Wednesday, March 26 — Saturday, March 29, 2025 Opening Reception is tomorrow Wednesday, March 26th, at 7:00 P.M. IMA student Celeste Newcomb @celestemov and IMA professor Zach Nader @znader have projects in this exhibition. More info here: https://overdrive.nyc/overdrive-3 Location: Elebash Recital Hall 365 Fifth Avenue New York #multimedia #newmedia #installation #projection #OverdriveFestival

Thank you to choreographer and filmmaker Tatyana Tenenbaum @tatyanatenenbaum for sharing the film, Everything You Have is Yours at IMA last month as part of the IMA class, Advanced Studio and thank you to IMA professor André Daughtry for inviting, coordinating, introducing and MCing the event. The film is screening soon in festivals and in May it will be at DCTV’s Firehouse Theater. “…Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian dancers living in New York City grapple with the questions of what we inherit and what we embody to carry forward.” Check out the website for more info: https://www.everythingyouhaveisyoursfilm.com/watch @everythingyouhaveisyours #VisitingArtistEvents #filmscreening

IMA Student A.J. Cincotta Eichenfield @a.j.c_e has three etchings in a group exhibition called After Image 003 @aftertimecollective His prints are part of an ongoing project about his great grandparents’ immigration from the volcanic island of Stromboli. They were created by exposing screenshots of webcam videos of Stromboli’s eruptions onto photopolymer plates, which were then transferred on an etching press using carbon typewriter paper found in his late grandparents’ Brooklyn garage. AFTER IMAGE 003, curated by Luiza Lukova, is the third iteration of an annual group exhibition at after / time collective gallery in Portland Oregon. AFTER IMAGE 003 features 21 artists each responding through their respective studio practices to the status and future of the image, its traces, its inherent non-neutrality, its topography, its relation to space and its possibilities in a mediatized world awash with claims to the concept of the image. Show Dates: March 6-30, 2025 Gallery Hours: Tues/Thurs 6-8; Sat 12-5 after / time is an artist-run gallery and experimental curatorial platform located in Portland, Oregon. A.J. made this work in the Art MFA printmaking course with Alva Mooses. It’s an expansion of work he’s been making at IMA. *IMA students can take up to 6 grad credits outside of the program toward the IMA degree. #printmaking #print #etching #exhibition #imagetraces #AfterImage

Filmmaker Stephen Maing is visiting Film and Media / IMA next week to share the documentary film, Union which he co-directed with Brett Story Tuesday, March 25: Screening: Union A film by Stephen Maing and Brett Story 6:30-9PM | Lang Auditorium “Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, NY. Winner of the US Documentary Special Jury Award for the Art of Change, Sundance Film Festival 2024.” Followed by Q&A with Stephen Maing Moderated by Prof. Ricardo Miranda, Film and Media Studies More info: https://fm.hunter.cuny.edu/mar-25-26-visiting-artist-stephen-maing/ https://www.unionthefilm.com #UnionFilm #filmscreening #discussion #documentaryfilm #filmmaking

Sharing IMA work and works-in-progress on the feed. IMA student Anisa Hodzic @anisahodzic works in multiple mediums. Sharing two of her recent projects. Her installation, “Pazi - Mina” (“Caution - Mine”) created in IMA class, Emerging Media 1. And a small clip from her audio piece from IMA class, Audio Narratives about her father’s harrowing journey from Gusinje to the US. Pazi - Mina is “a visualization and sonic history of the war-torn former Yugoslavia, presented by an exhumed landmine in the form of a mini CRT TV. The landmine/TV “speaks” to its audience in the Serbo-Croatian language standard of the time. Through each letter and pronunciation of the alphabet, an archive is unveiled. The installation examines ultranationalist groups, figures and cultures that have fueled extreme ethnic tensions, erasure, violence, and suppression of identity. Using archival sounds and video, the piece draws connections to the lingering cultural wounds in the Balkan region today, where children remain frequent victims of post-war weapons, like landmines. Follow Anisa’s work: anisa-hodzic.weebly.com | @anisahodzic #multimedia #installation #audio #sound #archive #identity