Alumni News

This past June, Danny Bredar appeared in Italy. Masaccio and Piero della Francesca had always emitted a distant light for the artist, but he’d hardly conceived of what it might be like to see their work up close, to see his vision reflected back at him...

In 2015, Alex Morelli drove through Ely, Nevada, for the first time as part of a larger western road trip. “I’d been researching the history of the west and the extractive economies that have sustained some of these really small, isolated communities,” he...

VES (AFVS) Alumni Renee Zhan'16 featured in Harvard Gazette article " Kind of Dark and Scary" by S.IK. Rosenbaum.

The Short Film Jury Award: Animation was presented to: Reneepoptosis / U.S.A., Japan (Director and screenwriter: Renee Zhan) — Three Renees go on a quest to find God, who is also Renee. As they traverse the mountains and valleys of Renee, they discover...

According to the Foundation, grantees were selected for “demonstrating critical and rigorous work in the field of contemporary art as well as an ability and commitment to making substantial contributions to the arts in the future.” Stern is currently a...

Dario Guerrero won a Hopes Prize for his thesis film in 2016. He will be screening the film next week at MIT and in New York. www.rociofilm.com Wednesday, November 14 at 5pm MIT Building 4 Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (rear) Thursday, November 15 at 7 pm...

Congratulations to Zachary Furste and Joana Pimenta, who will both graduate with a Ph.D. in Film and Visual Studies. In August, Zach will begin a 2-year Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities at the University of Southern...

La La Land, a film by VES alum Damien Chazelle ’07, won six Academy Awards on Sunday, including Best Director for Chazelle. Before the ceremony, VES professors Alfred Guzzetti and Robb Moss spoke to the Boston Globe about Chazelle’s time at Harvard and in...

La La Land, the latest film from VES alum Damien Chazelle ’07, received fourteen Oscar nominations, tying Titanic and All About Eve for the most in Academy Award history. The film was nominated in categories including Best Picture, Director, and Original...

Congratulations to Joana Pimenta, graduate student in Film and Visual Studies, and recent VES alum Renee Zhan ’16, whose films will show at the Locarno Film Festival in Locarno, Switzerland. Pimenta’s An Aviation Field and Zhan’s Hold Me (Ca Caw Ca Caw)...