The Department of Cinema and Digital Media continues its new lecture series on Feb. 27 at the Jan Shrem and Maria Minetti Shrem Museum of Art.

The lecture series features Rebecca Baron, Director, Program in Film and Video at CalArts. The event is free and begins at 12:15 p.m. 

Baron’s presentation is titled “Fragments and Traces.” 

Rebecca Baron is known for her essay films concerned with the construction of history, with a particular interest in still photography and its relationship to the moving image. Her work has screened widely at international film festivals and media venues including Documenta 12, New York Film Festival, Anthology Film Archive, Toronto Film Festival, London Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive, Flaherty Film Seminar and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the recipient of a 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. in 2010, the Austrian Film Museum presented a retrospective of her work. She has taught documentary and experimental film at Massachusetts College of Art, Harvard University, and since 2000 at California Institute of the Arts.