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.
Artnet’s Tim Schneider has
named professor emerita Lynn Hershman Leeson’s “Twisted Gravity”
one of the most boundary-pushing works at this year’s Art Basel.
In a recent San Francisco Chronicle Dateline feature, Tony Bravo
highlights the numerous contributions San Francisco artist and
professor emerita Lynn Hershman Leeson has made to the
contemporary art scene.
Branwen Okpako, associate professor of cinema and digital media,
has adapted Helon Habila’s The Chibok Girls
into an experimental documentary, Return to Chibok.
The film re-enacts the journey to visit those left behind after
the shocking kidnapping of 276 girls from Chibok Girls School in
2014. It will be screened at UC Davis on Feb. 27 by the
Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspective on Social
Sciences, Arts, and Humanities (CAMPSSAH).
