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Guzzetti and Moss on VES Alum and Oscar Winner Damien Chazelle

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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...

Meet our Visiting Faculty for 2017-18

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VES welcomes six new visiting faculty members to the department for the 2017-18 year: Judith Belzer (painting, fall term); Sean Cubitt (film and visual studies, fall term); Philippe-Alain Michaud (film and visual studies, spring term); Ken Okiishi (studio...

AFVS welcomes Fred Moten as the 2023 Solomon Fellow

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The Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University is thrilled to welcome cultural theorist and poet Fred Moten as the 2023 Solomon Fellow. Moten is an alumnus of Harvard College, a recent MacArthur Fellow, and a Professor in the...

Screening of Joana Pimenta’s film Dry Ground Burning – CCVA Theater, followed by a conversation with the filmmaker set for October 11th

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The Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies is thrilled to invite you to a screening of AFVS faculty member Joana Pimenta’s recent film, Dry Ground Burning, co-directed with Adirley Queirós. Please join us at 6:00pm on October 11, in the Carpenter...

Xaviera Simmons work at the exhibition "When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art" - October 23, 2019 - January 26, 2020

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Visiting artist and professor at the Art, Film, and Visual Studies Department, Xaviera Simmons will have her work at the exhibition When Home Won't Let you Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art. The exhibition will take place at the Institute of...

VES Concentrator Sarah Perlmutter in Harvard Gazzette

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Harvard Gazette story " How college rocked my world" quotes Karthik Pandian, Assistant Professor for Visual and Environmental Studies and discusses VES concentrator Sarah Perlmutter.

Daniel Garber ‘13 Wins Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing

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The Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies is thrilled to announce that Daniel Garber '13 has been awarded an Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing for his film How to Blow up a Pipeline. Please join us in congratulating Daniel Garber on this...

VES concentrator Lance Oppenheim ’19 will premiere documentary film, “The Happiest Guy in the World,” at the Tribeca Film Festival

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VES concentrator Lance Oppenheim ’19 will premiere documentary film, “The Happiest Guy in the World,” at the Tribeca Film Festival

Meet our Visiting Faculty for 2016-17

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VES welcomes four new visiting faculty members to the department for the 2016-17 year: Lucas Blalock (photography, spring term); Dru Donovan (photography, fall term); Alexander Galloway (film and visual studies, fall term); and Kianja Strobert (painting...

VES Visiting Faculty Elle Pérez and Carissa Rodriguez in the 2019 Whitney Biennial

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VES Visiting Lecturers Elle Pérez and Carissa Rodriguez will present their work in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. More about the Witney Biennal and other participating artists you will find here.

2024 Josep Luís Sert Practitioner: Anicka Yi

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Harvard University's Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies (AFVS) is thrilled to welcome artist Anicka Yi as the 2024 Josep Luis Sert Practitioner in the Arts. Yi will be in residence from February 21 to 23, 2024. Yi (b. 1971 in Seoul, South Korea)...

Guy Maddin at MIT

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VES visiting lecturer Guy Maddin will speak at MIT on Thursday, March 10. Maddin, an installation and internet artist, writer and filmmaker, will discuss “why we should bother digging up filmic and narrative memories from oblivion, how we can take...