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AFVS salutes alumnus Lance Oppenheim '19 and his new pair of feature films.

September 25, 2026

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 The Bend in the River Draws Critical Acclaim

September 11, 2026

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...

In ‘Remake,’ Ross McElwee navigates the loss of his son

September 03, 2026

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...

HFA Tour and Research Info Session September 16 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

September 02, 2026

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...

AFVS Faculty Robb Moss featured in The New Yorker

August 06, 2026

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.

AFVS Faculty Exhibition: Matt Saunders, On an Overgrown Path

July 02, 2026

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...

AFVS TA Yulia Spiridonova's exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” now on view at The Davis Center

May 27, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The...

Kathryn Abarbanel’s First Aid on View at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College

May 18, 2026

Kathryn Abarbanel, Lecturer in Art, Film, and Visual Studies, has work currently on view at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College through May 24 as part of the exhibition In Focus. First Aid, a sculptural installation, explores themes of fragility, force...

Professor Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Assistant Professor Joana Pimenta interviewed for The Crimson

May 12, 2026

A mechanical arm scrapes at the walls of a pink tunnel. The surface gives way easily — soft, almost airy. The camera moves forward, through the flaky matter, pulling the viewer with it. For a moment, it feels more like traveling than viewing. “It’s like...

Harvard student celebrates Pandian's class

April 30, 2026

Karthik Pandian, associate professor in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, taught the class that made Solis fall in love with art. He said Soltis stood out from the beginning for her “openness” to the “process-driven ways of making art” and...

AFVS congratulates Assistant Professor Kianja Strobert on being named a recipient of the 2026-2027 Rome Prize Fellowship

April 27, 2026

AFVS congratulates Assistant Professor Kianja Strobert on being named a recipient of the 2026-2027 Rome Prize Fellowship for her dynamic work in The Visual Arts. Strobert will use her time at the fellowship to study the network of Madonnelle shrines that...

Spring 2026 AFVS Open Studios

April 15, 2026

AFVS Spring 2026 Open Studios will take place on Friday, May 1st from 5:00pm to 7:00pm on levels B, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, at 24 Quincy Street. Artwork made this semester in all AFVS studio classes will be on view. The...