Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies

AFVS salutes alumnus Lance Oppenheim '19 and his new pair of feature films. PRIMETIME opens September 25, YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING opens October 16. Get to the theater! Read more here.

Robb Moss’s latest documentary, The Bend in the River , has received widespread critical attention for its intimate portrait of friendship, memory, and aging. The film completes Moss’s decades-spanning documentary trilogy following a group of longtime...

Ross McElwee has often set out to make a film about one thing, only for it to become about something else entirely. Perhaps the best example is his 1986 film “Sherman’s March.” It started as a Civil War documentary but switched focus to his own love life...

To welcome new students, staff, faculty, and artists in the AFVS, FSC, and CMP community, please join us for an introduction to the Harvard Film Archive focused on the HFA’s collection. We’ll go over how to find material and arrange use for classroom...

Robb Moss Is Still Going with the Flow The documentarian returns to the Grand Canyon for “The Bend in the River,” the third film in his unofficial series on friendship, nature, and the passage of time. Read more.

The Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies congratulates faculty member Matt Saunders on the opening of his solo exhibition, On an Overgrown Path , at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, on view June 25–August 7, 2026. The exhibition features a new...