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Students move annual film festival online

4/22/2020 by : Bryan Hagelin , Department of Performing & Media Arts

As Cornell University shifts to remote instruction due to COVID-19, this year's Centrally Isolated Film Festival (CIFF), Cornell’s annual student-run film competition celebrating student filmmakers, will also move online.

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Professor David Feldshuh’s “Antigone” adaptation “rings true to modern audiences”

5/31/2019 by : Bryan Hagelin , Performing & Media Arts

Laws of nature versus man. Misogyny and elitism. Dissent as a crime. These themes and more are explored in Antigone by Sophocles, adapted by Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts professor David Feldshuh and recently produced at Baltimore Center Stage to sold-out audiences in March 2019.

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Alumna lands feature film deals

11/29/2018 by : Bryan Hagelin , Performing & Media Arts

The first feature film of Department of Performing and Media Arts alumna Amanda Idoko ’10, "Breaking News in Yuba County," will be produced in mid-2019, starring Allison Janney and Laura Dern.

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Two People Encounter Infinite Possibilities in “Constellations”

10/23/2018 by : Bryan Hagelin , Performing & Media Arts

How many chances do we get to make a first impression? For Roland and Marianne, the two protagonists in Constellations by Nick Payne, the answer is infinite. In the play, running November 1–3 in the Black Box Theatre at Cornell’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Payne proposes that life exists in a multiverse, in which countless parallel existences play out simultaneously, allowing for an infinity of possible futures.