Cinema and Digital Media

Alum David Nessl, Technocultural Studies 2012, has announced that his animated film, “Chichi,” has been selected for the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.

CHICHI / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: David Nessl) — My dog has dreams and he tells me about them. I made a movie about those dreams. This is that movie. U.S. Premiere 

Student filmmakers enrolled in TCS 104: Documentary Production have created trailers for their film projects.

TCS 104 explores traditional and new forms of documentary, with focus on technocultural issues. Students develop skills and strategies for producing work in various media, and progress through all stages of production, from conception through post-production to critique. 

Below are links to the students’ trailers.

Inspired by his modding class at UC Davis, Patrick LeMieux, assistant professor of Cinema and Digital Media, has been making the rounds at universities, conferences, festivals, and art exhibitions to show a new project — The Octopad.

Fiamma Montezemolo has been chosen as one of the 2018 Artist in Residence Awardees at the Headlands Center for the Arts. She was also awarded one of the Project Space Residencies. 

Internationally renowned artist Lynn Hershman Leeson, UC Davis professor emeritus, will receive major awards from the College Art Association and the Women’s Caucus for the Arts. She will receive the Distinguished Feminist Award –Visual Artist from the CAA in February and a lifetime achievement award from the Women’s Caucus. 

Brooklyn Rail interviews Professors Julie Wyman and Irene Lusztig (UCSC) about their interview project.

The multi-gifted Colin Milburn, Gary Snyder Chair in Science and the Humanities, Professor of Cinema and Digital Media, Professor of English, Science and Technology Studies, has provided some keen advice on gaming and its costs on the WalletHub website. Milburn is featured as part of the site’s Ask the Experts section. Scroll down for Milburn’s advice. 

The multi-talented Bob Ostertag, composer, performer, instrument builder, journalist, activist, historian, and kayak instructor, will appear in concert in Wels, Austria, November 11 and 12. Ostertag performs along with Jon Rose and Gerry Hemingway. His latest recording is entitled Wish You Were Here. 

Ostertag’s appearance in Austria is part of a world tour that began in 2015. 

Here is an overview of The Film Festival @ UC Davis 2016 showcasing work created by students. Held May 18 and 19 at Varsity Theatre in downtown Davis, the Festival attracted enthusiastic audiences on both evenings. All photos are courtesy of The Film Festival @ UC Davis, copyright UC Davis. 

The 16th annual Film Festival at UC Davis was held on May 18 and 19 at the Varsity Theatre in downtown Davis. Featuring a remarkable variety of short student-produced films, the filmmakers, undergraduate and graduate students, created works from narrative and documentary to experimental, and brought a rich diversity to the screen. The Film Festival was produced by the departments of Art Studio, Cinema and Digital Media, Design, Music and Theatre and Dance.

The 2016 Winners

On April 29th and 30th, Professor Wyman took a group of 25 UCD students (a combination of students from courses TCS 198 and FYS 004-15) in San Francisco to participate in the 59th San Francisco International Film Festival.

Fiamma C di Montezemolo, Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Media, will be featured in “Mapping the City,” a multi-level collaborative project promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco. Her installation, entitled “Neon Afterwords,” will be on exhibition beginning September 2016 at San Francisco’s Kadist Art Foundation. Curated by Marina Pugliese, the “Mapping the City” project was conceived to further exchanges and collaborations among Italian contemporary visual artists and their Bay Area counterparts. 

Physics Today recognizes Mondo Nano, by Cinema and Digital Media professor Colin Milburn, as one of the most intriguing books reviewed in its pages this year.

The year in reviews: Five books that stood out in 2015

Prof. of Cinema and Digital Media, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, and Anupam Chander (UC Davis School of Law), were awarded a 2014 Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar for their year-long seminar, “Surveillance and Democracy,” offered during 2015–2016.

Please click on the “Mellon-Sawyer Surveillance and Democracy Seminar” link for more information on upcoming speakers and events. 

Music Monday explores incoming American sound artist Bob Ostertag upon his multiple Shanghai bookings this week.

Music Monday is a weekly SmartShanghai column that presents songs from bands making music in China and bands living in, coming to, or thinking about coming to China.

Click here to read the entire article on Bob Ostertag and his career.