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Short films from PMA course selected for festivals

10/18/2024 by : Beatrice Fenyes-Gartenberg , Department of Performing & Media Arts

Three short documentaries produced in a Rural Humanities Seminar, taught by PMA Associate Professor Austin Bunn, are headed to film festivals this fall.

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Indigenous dance troupe show focuses on residential schools

10/12/2022 by : Staff , Department of Performing & Media Arts

The internationally-renowned Indigenous Canadian Kaha:wi Dance Theatre will perform their poignant "The Mush Hole" at Cornell on Friday, Oct. 28.

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Native Storytelling panel at Sundance features Jeffrey Palmer

1/28/2021 by : Staff , Department of Performing & Media Arts

Palmer and other filmmakers will discuss the impact and importance of Indigenous voices in cinema at the Beyond Film event, free online on Jan. 30.

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“Fabrication” theme weaves through virtual 10-Minute Play Festival

9/29/2020 by : Lindsey White , Department of Performing & Media Arts

Communing with the dead, navigating new parenthood, and exploring Y2K teen pop stardom and the Black genius behind it are among the themes of five student-written short plays debuting online October 8–10 for the Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts’ (PMA) 8th annual 10-Minute Play Festival. The festival, hosted by PMA and the Graduate Researchers in Media and Performing Arts (GRMPA), serves as a laboratory for the development of plays written by both undergraduate and graduate students from across the university.

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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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Sci-fi thriller “The Nether” questions ethics in virtual worlds

3/3/2020 by : Lindsey White , Department of Performing & Media Arts

Note: The Saturday, March 14, performance of "The Nether" has been cancelled. The Friday performance will take place at 7:30 pm as scheduled.

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“Transformation,” collaborations with guest artists inspire annual Locally Grown Dance

2/25/2020 by : Lindsey White , Department of Performing & Media Arts

Student dancers of the performing and media arts department will explore “the politics of expression in the dancer’s body” in this year’s Locally Grown Dance, according to the event page. Each of the four dance pieces will incorporate the idea of transformation — either literally, figuratively or both. 

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Short-film festival screens work from New York State and Ivy League students

4/2/2018

Student filmmakers, most from central and upstate New York, will have their short films screened during the fifth annual Centrally Isolated Film Festival (CIFF). During the festival, April 13 and 14 at Cornell University’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, the public and a panel of industry judges will award prizes across several categories.