The IMA Thesis Show is Friday May 17 + Saturday May 18 15 projects by Spring 2024 IMA MFA graduates film, mixed media, installation, audio, photography, performance, AR, VR, animation, sound, collaborations, storytelling All info + RSVP here: https://ima-mfa.hunter.cuny.edu/ima-mfa-spring-thesis-show/ (& link in bio) #IMAMFASpring2024ThesisShow #ThesisShow #mixedmedia #film #interactivemedia #performance #installation #sound #conversations #audio #animation #augmentedreality #virtualreality #virtualworlds #storytelling #community #collaboration (image from Reflections of Little Red Dot by Chloé Lee)

IMA student Sabeena Singhani is coordinating a film screening event on Tuesday May 14th, 8pm. An evening of best hits from past Baby Teeth filmmakers. Baby Teeth is a film festival for stories by trans, nonbinary and genderqueer filmmakers. RSVP is here: https//tinyurl.com/bbtmay14 @babyteethfilmfest @sabeenasin #film #filmfestival #BabyTeethFilmFest

Lyd, a film by Rami Younis and IMA alum Sarah Ema Friedland is screening at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema starting tonight! April 28th at 7pm and multiple times until May 2nd. All details + tickets: https://firehouse.dctvny.org/ “Lyd by Rami Younis & Sarah Ema Friedland, is a feature-length, speculative documentary that follows the rise and fall of Lyd – a 5,000-year-old metropolis that was once a bustling Palestinian town until it was conquered when the State of Israel was established in 1948. As the film unfolds, a chorus of characters creates a tapestry of the Palestinian experience of this city and the trauma left by the massacre and expulsion, while vivid animations envision an alternate reality where the same characters live free from the trauma of the past and the violence of the present. Using never-before-seen archival footage of the Israeli soldiers who carried out the massacre and expulsion, the personified city explains that these events were so devastating that they fractured reality, and now there are two Lyds — one occupied and one free. As the film cuts between fantastical and documentary realities, it ultimately leaves the viewer questioning which future should prevail. Lyd dares to ask the question: what would the city be like had the Israeli occupation of Lyd never happened?” More about the film: https://lydinexile.com @lydinexile @sarah.friedland #Lydfilm #film #collaboration #community #filmscreening #DCTV #DCTVFirehouseCinema @dctvny

Apply to IMA MFA! we are taking applications for Fall 2024 now! and until May 1st! More info: https://ima-mfa.hunter.cuny.edu/ima-admissions-guidelines/ The MFA in Integrated Media Arts (IMA MFA) at Hunter College offers advanced studies in cross-platform documentary storytelling. Working with an expansive set of technical and conceptual tools, the goal of the IMA Program is to develop filmmakers and media artists who make innovative and socially-engaged work across a range of disciplines. IMA’s diverse cohort of students create documentary, experimental and narrative film, hand-drawn and computer-based animation, sound environments and audio narratives, interactive installation and physical computing, web-based and transmedia storytelling, social practice public exhibition and performance. #IMAMFA #multimedia #storytelling #film #emergingmedia#installation #interactivemedia #animation #experimental#nonlinear #documentary #narrative #performance #sound#analog #digital #research #archives #collaboration #teaching#storytelling @artsathunter @huntercollege

Multidisciplinary artists and IMA thesis students Tara and Indranil Choudhury are having a two-person exhibition at UnionDocs on May 3rd! The opening of the show titled: Feeble Transmitters starts at 7pm and it features paintings, ceramic sculptures, and hybrid objects punctuated with speakers, screens, and projections. “The artists invite the viewer into a world filled with feeble transmitters – devices studded with diminutive portals, gently dispatching sounds and images from other places.” The week-long show will also feature two live events, programmed around the themes explored in the show. RESONANT CHAMBERS will present an evening of live sound performances on a quadraphonic sound system, featuring artists Jenn Grossman, Shelley Hirsch and IMA Professor Hans Tammen, they’ll investigate the materiality of sound as central to their practice. LIGHT FROM THE OTHER SIDE features a screening of two films exploring the origins of cinema by Zoe Beloff that are shot on 3D B/W 16mm film. All info and to RSVP: https://uniondocs.org/event/feeble-transmitters-2024-05-03/ And more about their work: https://indranilchoudhury.com https://taraaliyakesavan.com UnionDocs 352 Onderdonk Ave Ridgewood, NY #exhibition #multimedia #sound #ceramics #painting #mixedmedia #installation #audio #performance #quadraphonic #16mm @uniondocs @indranil.c @tarakesavan

Filmmaker and IMA professor (and department chair) Kelly Anderson’s new film, EMERGENT CITY, is selected to screen at TRIBECA! IMA alumni Betty Yu, Sean Hanley, Alex Mallis, Fivel Rothberg, Lindsey Cordero, Amanda Katz, Samantha Farinella, Kalim Armstrong also helped with this film. “In the wake of deindustrialization and on the cusp of climate catastrophe, a Brooklyn community grapples with the future of New York City’s last working waterfront. Over a decade, Emergent City explores power and process in a working class neighborhood facing gentrification, development and the need for jobs that will allow people to stay in the place they call home. The film is a 360° observational portrait that leans into the complexity of issues often framed in black and white. Emergent City asks viewers to consider how change might emerge from dialogue and collective action in a world where too many outcomes are constrained by money, politics and business as usual.” More info about the film: https://tribecafilm.com/films/emergent-city-2024 https://www.redfordcenter.org/films/emergent-city/ https://itvs.org/films/emergent-city/ Tribeca Film festival 2024 is June 5-16 #TribecaFilmFestival #film #documentary #EmergentCityFilm #collaboation #community