Event

In line with Penn’s Covid19 response guidelines, the Cinema & Media Studies Program canceled the event below. We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause and send our best wishes to all.

Unfinished Business: Unseen Films, Unheard Stories
A Film Series curated by Robert Cargni, Film Programmer, for Penn Cinema & Media Studies.

"Distribution circuits and exhibition venues and platforms substantially limit our access to the films we can watch. As a film programmer, my aspiration has always been that of recuperating part of the heterogeneous richness of world cinemas and local film cultures and to make it available to audiences interested in expanding the breadth and diversity of their film experience. As part of this always unfinished business of cultural recovery, I like to present to you a group of virtually unseen films that tackle some of the most pressing questions of our times: migration, social marginalization, gender inequality, racial discrimination, and the systematic impoverishment of the Global South. This film series offers you the opportunity to expand your familiarity with diasporic filmmaking, women’s cinema, contemporary film cultures in Latin American and the Caribbean, as well as with filmmakers operating at the peripheries of the American and European film industries." (Robert Cargni)
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Film Portrait
Jerome Hill, USA, 1972, 80 mins, in English

"Jerome Hill leads us into a social background that is not only very uniquely American but which also is about the least documented in cinema-at least not as genuinely as Jerome Hill does it in his film: the life, the feeling, and the style of the well-to-do American class at the beginning of the century. […] Since the period dealt with in this film coincides with the development of Cinema as a Young Art, and the development of the Avantgarde Film as a form of cinema, Film Portrait becomes also a film about the art of cinema and a film about the Avantgarde Film... It's about the liberation of an artist from the bonds of his family, his class, the fashionable art styles, and one thousand other bonds: a liberation through cinema..." (Jonas Mekas)

The film will be introduced by Anat Dan, Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania
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Robert E. Cargni is formerly the film programmer and gallerist for Film @ International House Philadelphia. Robert has also curated film programming for the University of Pennsylvania Museum, as well as numerous international film festivals across the United States and Canada.