Cinema and Digital Media combines the study of audio-visual and
digital media, theories about such media, and relevant modes of
artistic practice and production.
Three recent Department of Cinema and Digital Media majors from
the class of 2025 have launched their own videography and
video production company and have hit the ground
running. David Kouyoumdjian, Jihae Dong, and Ziyun
Zhang formed 175
Productions LLC (AKA. 175 Productions) in March 2025 and have
already built up an impressive list of clients.
The West coast premiere of Professor Julie Wyman’s
documentary The Tallest Dwarf will be part of
the San Francisco International Film Festival with
screenings on April 26 and 27.
For any anthropologist, fieldwork represents both a professional
obligation and a rite of passage. For Professor Fiamma
Montezemolo, as for Fred Murdock, the protagonist of
Borges’ El Etnógrafo (1969), this rite of
passage is a break and a crossing: a break from anthropology’s
traditional forms of expression and a crossing into the realm of
visual art.
Filmmakers and professors Glenda
Drew (of Design) and Jesse
Drew (of Cinema and Digital Media) have completed a project
decades in the making — a documentary about the roots of American
Country Music titled Open Country.
The UC Davis Department of Cinema and Digital Media invites you
to a film screening and in-person conversation with Emily
Cohen-Ibañez, the director of the feature documentary FRUITS
OF LABOR, a coming of age story, which addresses food
systems, labor, and precarity – co-written with the film’s
teenage lead participant, Ashley Pavon. Screening is Feb. 12 at 4
p.m. in Cruess Hall 1002. Free and open to all.
