IMA alum Chloe Smolarski @elevatorbingo has coordinated an event on April 24th at 6:30pm as part of Social Practice CUNY @socialpracticecuny called Choosing to Remember: Embodied Witnessing and Co-Creating a participatory assembly led by Chloe Smolarski, artist; Tasha Darbes, ethnographer; and Edge Effect Media Group @edge.effect.media Location: The James Gallery - 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016 Engage the climate crisis through art, embodiment, and conversation. Participants will interact with archival material as interlocutors, as they observe one another’s stories of climate change effects. This assembly will contribute oral histories to an archive of collective grief, as we recover the past, acknowledge the present, and dream about the future of our climate. Embedded within and inspired by the exhibits Holding Water and When Home Leaves You: Archiving Living Memories of Climate Change our space centers collective grief, as a way to transcend alienation and imagine responses. More info: https://archive.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/choosing-to-remember-embodied-witnessing-and-co-creating #archive #embodiment #conversation #events #history

Next Tuesday April 22nd, 6pm, join us for a screening of a rough cut of historian and filmmaker Beau Lancaster’s documentary “Gay, Black, and Blue: Raid on Blues Bar” on the 1982 violent NYPD raid at Blues Bar, a Black and latine LGBTQ bar in midtown Manhattan and discussion with the filmmaker. The event is coordinated by students in IMA class, Sites: Sound: Process: Place with Professor Kara Lynch. Tuesday April 22, 6pm - TV Studio RSVP via link in bio. flyer by IMA student Amara Thomas @amara.idk #documentary #filmmaking #roughcut #visitingartist #filmmaker #historian #event #TVStudio

IMA alum Melissa Montero @melisita.zoe is sharing her thesis film, Memorias de Mi Familia at the Hoboken Historical Museum tomorrow night, April 17th 6-9pm! hosted by the Boricua Community Center boricuacommunitycenter Memorias de Mi Familia is a heartfelt documentary honoring Puerto Rican identity, memory, and home. A Q&A with Melissa after the screening. Thursday, April 17 | 6–9 PM Hoboken Historical Museum | 1301 Hudson St Advance Tickets: $10 | Door: $15 Celebrate culture, heritage, and community through film and poetry. Tickets + info: bit.ly/3XNxsxz #filmscreening #puertoricanvoices #storytelling #documentary #IMAThesis #archive #familyarchive (stills from the film)

Photos of our most recent new 1-credit intensive course called, From Body to Movement: Performative Art and Film with mixed media artist, filmmaker and IMA alum Yehui Zhao @yehui_zhao The class met for three Saturdays and connected about the ways that performance art has played a significant role in deconstructing colonialism and how it explores the intersection of identity, history, and the impact of globalization across communities. One of the sessions took place at nearby Central Park where the class reflected about Seneca Village (1858-1862) which was home to 264 residents, the majority of whom were African American. By 1857, everyone was forced to move, and Seneca Village was erased by the creation of the park. On Saturday March 15th, the class gathered at the former site of Seneca Village and retraced its legacy through their embodied performance. Photos by IMA alum, Nate Dorr @rock_hyrax During the last class session, the film and media artists enrolled shared a performance piece that they developed for the class, which could be film, audio, or live performance. #Performance #film #audio #1creditIntensives #collaboration #CentralPark #SenecaVillage #history #movement

IMA alum, multimedia maker and filmmaker Theresa Loong @theresaloong is at NY Tech Meetup @nytechalliance at Civic Hall tonight, April 14, 6:30pm sharing about her project, Bought/Broken, an interactive healing art project for survivors of intimate partner violence and allies. She started it as an installation in the IMA class, Interactive Installation taught by Sha Sha Feng. The event is in partnership with NY Tech Alliance, the meetup will showcase FORM360 and other tech demos in the gaming space (storytelling, experiential and interactive). Tickets + info here: https://www.nytech.org/ny_tech_meetup_april_2025_20250113 #interactive #storytelling #installation #virtualreality #event

Tonight! Neirud! A film by IMA alum Fernanda Faya @fefa_faya Tonight, Friday, April 11, 6-9pm NEIRUD had its World Premiere at Olhar de Cinema - Curitiba Int’l Film Festival, receiving Best Film and Best Editing awards. After its International Premiere at DOC NYC the film has continued to receive festival awards. Fernanda is currently writing her first fiction feature film script, BETE, which was awarded the SpCine developing fund. More about Neirud: https://www.neirudfilm.com/ | @@neirud_film “Growing up, filmmaker Fernanda Roth Faya knew Neirud as her “aunt,” a family member close to her grandmother. What Faya uncovers after Neirud’s death is a mysterious and colorful life, from her time as a wrestler and circus performer to her secret and complicated love triangle. Neirud is a fascinating story about race and identity, and queer life in last century’s Brazil”. – Murtada Elfadl (DOC NYC) “...Mixing archival film and video footage, Neirud alternates poetic lyricism with poignant anecdotes, the net result is a heartfelt ode to the pioneers of the past who have made today possible.” - Hammer to Nail After the film there will be a Q&A and discussion with Fernanda Faya and researcher, Flor Barceló. #event #film #archive #documentaryfilm