Triangle Film Salon
The Triangle Film Salon is an annual series of lectures and presentations on the screen arts. Speakers range from film scholars to filmmakers, both visiting and in residence at UNC. The Salon facilitates an exchange of ideas in the Research Triangle and beyond. It aims to stimulate new ways of thinking about the relations between critical and creative work where cinema and other audiovisual media are concerned. All events in the series incorporate time for group discussion.
Free to students, faculty, and the public.
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
“The Physiology of Sound Design”
Dean Hurley, Twin Peaks: The Return
Zoom, 5:30pm, registration required
Triangle Film Salon “Adapting” 2022 Graduate Student Conference
Film Studies, UNC–Chapel Hill & NC State University
March 5, 2022
Panel 1: Genre & Gender, 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Susie Hedley, “Flesh to Come: The Emergence of Lesbian Desire in Body Horror”
Rose Steptoe, “Rethinking Pregnancy Horror: Expository Aesthetics and Offscreen Body Horror in False Positive (2021)”
Julia Wray, “Adapting to New Roadblocks: The New Contraception Road Trip”
Panel 2: Modernism and the “Post-”, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
Ben Cela, “Merging Film and Literary Conventions to ‘Make New’ William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying”
Kyle Miskell: “The Anthropocene on Screen”
Max Tsarev: “Mapping Conflict: Images of Resistance in Hito Steyerl’s November (2004)”
Panel 3: Experiments and Theories, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Emily Byrd: Audiobiography (Film and Artist Statement)
Travis Merchant-Knudsen: “Paper Frames Becoming Digital Scenes: Don Hertzfeldt’s Adaptation to the Digital Medium”
Lindsey Reich: “Interactive Documentary: A Medium for Social Change and Conversation”
Doug Stark: “Becoming Animated: Paprika’s Dream Machines”
Panel 4: Popular Media and Franchises, 3:15 PM – 4:30 PM
Josy Raheem: “Adapting to Legitimacy: Network Sitcoms During the Age of High-Quality TV”
Bryce Stout: “Execute Order 626: Star Wars Miniatures and The Stitch”
Aasta Thomas: “Adapting to Viral Outbreaks in Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City”
Past Events:
Monday, April 26, 2021
Panel on Cinemagoing in the Streaming Era
Zoom, 5:00pm
Thursday, April 8, 2021
“Sleep, Loquacity and the Work of Dreamings”
Elena Gorfinkel, King’s College London
Zoom, 2:00pm
Monday, March 29, 2021
Discussion of City of Screens: Imagining Audiences in Manila’s Alternative Film Culture (Duke UP 2021)
Jasmine Nadua Trice, University of California at Los Angeles
Zoom, 5:00pm
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
“Film Theory and Buddhism”
Victor Fan, King’s College London
Zoom, 5:30pm
Monday, March 8, 2021
“Celestial Bodies: Black Women, Hollywood, and the Fallacy of Stardom”
Philana E. Payton, University of Southern California
Zoom, 5:00pm
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Discussion of Seeing by Electricity: The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939 (Duke UP 2020)
Doron Galili, University of Stockholm
Zoom, 9:30am
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
“Intermedial Feeling: How Kon Satoshi Animates the Self”
Thomas Lamarre, Duke University
Ackland Art Museum, 5:30pm
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
“On the Digital (Before the Digital)”
Gregory Flaxman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Anne Sauvagnargues, University of Paris Nanterre
Hamilton 100, 6:00pm
Thursday, March 7 & Friday, March 8, 2019
“Science Fiction in the Work of Janelle Monae: Film Screening and Workshop”
Priscilla Layne, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Screening: March 7, Varsity Theater, 7:00 pm
Workshop: March 8, Hayti Heritage Center, 6:00 pm
“Three Cinematic Gestures”
Murray Pomerance
Independent Scholar
Toy Lounge, Dey Hall, 5:30pm
Monday, November 12, 2018
“Knocking at the Gate: Civil Rights, Documentary, and the Legacy of the North Carolina Film Board.”
Martin L. Johnson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
125 Chapman Hall, 5:30pm
Monday, October 29, 2018
“Democracy and Documentary Filmmaking in Brazil”
Maria Augusta Ramos, documentarian (event includes screening of her film Juízo (Behave, 2007, Brazil))
Hitchcock Multipurpose Room, Sonya Haynes Stone Center, 4:30-7pm
Monday, October 22, 2018
“Navigating the World of Independent Filmmaking: Festivals and Beyond”
Dan Mirvish, Filmmaker/Author
Davis 112, 3:30pm
Thursday, February 15, 2018
“Genre, Normativity, and Neoliberalism in Maren Ade’s Screwball Tragedy Toni Erdmann”
Hester Baer, University of Maryland
Toy Lounge, Fourth Floor of Dey Hall, 5pm
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
“Between Rancière and Deleuze: Jean Renoir’s Aesthetic Politics”
Scott Durham — French and Italian, Northwestern University
Toy Lounge, Fourth Floor of Dey Hall, 6pm
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
“All that Glitters isn’t Gold: Auma Obama’s Nightmare of Postunification Germany”
Priscilla Layne Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures, UNC
Mitchell 005, 5pm
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
“Tolstoy, Bresson, and the Ground of the Ethical”
Sharon Cameron is the William Kenan Jr. Professor Emerita at Johns Hopkins University.
University Room, Hyde Hall 5pm
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
“The World Heard: Stanley Cavell’s Ontology of Cinematic Sound”
Kyle Stevens
English, Appalachian State
Toy Lounge, Fourth Floor of Dey Hall, 5:30 PM
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
“Cruising Pachuquismo: Kenneth Anger’s Fireworks and the Zoot Suit Riots”
Michelle Robinson
American Studies, UNC
Toy Lounge, Fourth Floor of Dey Hall, 7:00 PM
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
“Towards a Palestinian Third Cinema”
Nadia Yaqub
Asian Studies, UNC
Toy Lounge, Fourth Floor of Dey Hall, 7:00 PM
Thursday, April 21, 2016
“Godard Gets the Blues: One + One (Sympathy for the Devil), Jones/Baraka, and the Aesthetics of Improvisation”
Hassan Melehy
French and Francophone Studies, UNC
Toy Lounge, Fourth Floor of Dey Hall, 6:00 PM
Sunday, April 10, 2016
“Meet the Filmmaker: An Evening with Ken Jacobs” (talk + film screenings)
Ken Jacobs
http://www.eai.org/artistBio.htm?id=6877
Ackland Art Museum, 4:00 PM
Thursday, March 10, 2016
“Must See in 3D: Recent Experiments in Stereoscopic Cinema”
Rick Warner
English and Comparative Literature, UNC
Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall, 5:00 PM
Coordinated with Annual Furst Forum Lectures
Thursday, February 18, 2016
“Searching for Politics in the Interwar American Newsreel”
Sara Levavy
Global Cinema, UNC
Toy Lounge, Fourth Floor of Dey Hall, 6:00 PM
Friday, April 17, 2015
“Don’t Blink: The Interval and Disintegrated Animation.”
Andrew Johnston
Romance Languages and Literatures, UNC
Toy Lounge, Fourth Floor of Dey Hall, 5:30 pm
Thursday, January 29, 2015
“Making First Person Films: A Documentarian’s Perspective”
Julia Haslett
Communication Studies, UNC
Toy Lounge, Fourth Floor of Dey Hall, 5:30 pm
Thursday, January 22, 2015
“Essay/Film”- A Roundtable Discussion
Rick Warner, Richard Langston, Gabriel Trop
Comparative Literature and Germanic and Slavic, UNC
Toy Lounge, Fourth Floor of Dey Hall, 5:30 pm
Thursday, November 20, 2014
“Doing Things with Garbage in Contemporary Spain”
Samuel Amago
Romance Languages and Literatures, UNC
Toy Lounge, Fourth Floor of Dey Hall, 5:30 pm
“Time and Space in Mizrahi (Oriental-Jewish)
Cinema: the Limits of the Zionist Research”
Yaron Shemer
Asian Studies, UNC
Toy Lounge, Fourth Floor of Dey Hall, 12 pm
“Tugging at Technology:
A Media Artist’s Journey”
Francesca Talenti
Communication Studies, UNC
Toy Lounge, Fourth Floor of Dey Hall, 5:30 pm
Thursday, April 17, 2014
“Resisting Performance, Performing
Resistance: Ernst Lubitsch and
Hollywood’s Jewish Question.”
Gerd Gemünden
German Studies, Dartmouth College
Toy Lounge, Fourth Floor of Dey Hall 5:00pm
Thursday, April 11, 2014
“Towards a Political Theory of/with
Contemporary Euro Horror Film”
Drehli Robnik
Ludwin Boltzmann-Institute for History and Society
Toy Lounge, Dey Hall 3:00pm
Thursday, April 3, 2014
“Humans Becoming Animals:
On Sensorimotor Affection”
Gertrud Koch
Free University Berlin
Hyde Hall, UNC Chapel Hill 5:30pm
Thursday, February 28, 2014
“Godard and the 19th Century”
Anne-Gaëlle Saliot
Romance Studies, Duke University
Toy Lounge, Dey Hall 5:30pm
Thursday, January 23, 2014
“Strategic Incoherence: Point of
View in All the President’s Men”
Christian Keathley
Film & Media Culture, Middlebury College
Toy Lounge, Dey Hall 5:30pm
Thursday, November 14, 2013
“Violence and the Gaze in Catherine
Breillat’s Fat Girl (À Ma Soeur!)”
Ora Gelley
Dept. of English, NC State University
Toy Lounge, Dey Hall 5:30pm
Thursday, October 24, 2013
“In Search of Lost Reality:
Waltzing with Bashir”
Markos Hadjioannou
Program in Literature, Duke University
Toy Lounge, Dey Hall 5:30pm
Friday, April 11, 2013
“Shadow Plays and Queer Enlightenments
in Stanley Kwan’s Lan Yu”
Robin Visser
Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC Chapel Hill
Incubator Room, Hyde Hall
Thursday, March 28, 2013
“The Lives of a Salamander:
Temporalities in/of the Cinema”
Inga Pollmann
Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC Chapel Hill
Hyde Hall, UNC Chapel Hill
Thursday, January 31, 2013
“Filming a Miracle: Contemplative Strategies
from Dreyer To Reygadas”
Rick Warner
Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC Chapel Hill
Hyde Hall, UNC Chapel Hill
Friday, November 16, 2012
Workshop: “André Bazin, Film Theory, and Modernism”
Dan Morgan
University of Pittsburgh
Dey Hall Room 403A, UNC Chapel Hill
Thursday, November 15, 2012
“Film, Philosophy, Fantasy: Camera Movements
and The Problem of Point of View”
Dan Morgan
University of Pittsburgh
University Room, Hyde Hall, UNC Chapel Hill
Saturday, October 11, 2012
“History’s Image in Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon”
Maria Pramaggiore
NC State
Toy Lounge, Dey Hall, UNC Chapel Hill
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
“Rethinking Nonfiction: Educational Film
and the Documentary Canon”
Devin Orgeron
NC State
Richard White Lecture Hall, Duke University
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
“Rethinking Nonfiction: Educational Film
and the Documentary Canon”
Devin Orgeron
NC State
Richard White Lecture Hall, Duke University
April 19, 2012
“Off-Screen and Out of Field:
The Future of Film Studies”
Gregg Flaxman
Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC Chapel Hill
Franklin Humanities Institute Warehouse, Room C107, Duke University
March 15, 2012
“The Silent Pageant: Booster Films for the Moviegoing Public”
Martin Johnson
NYU/UNC
Franklin Humanities Institute Warehouse, Room C107, Duke University
February 16, 2012
Discussion: Film and Music
Jacqueline Waeber
Duke University
Franklin Humanities Institute Warehouse, Room C107, Duke University
February 16, 2012
“An Encounter with Simone Weil”: Film Screening and Talk
Julia Haslett (Director) and Daniel Thomas Davis (Composer)
The Garage, Smith Warehouse, 114 S. Buchanan St.
January 19, 2012
“A Century of Civil War Projection: Rendering History in Cinematic Reprise”
Ivan Ross
Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
Franklin Humanities Institute Warehouse, Room C107, Duke University
December 14, 2011
“Animation and Archeology of Media”
Jim Hodge
Duke University
Franklin Humanities Institute Warehouse, Room C107, Duke University
November 30, 2011
“Eisenstein and Typage”
Abe Geil
Franklin Humanities Institute Warehouse, Room C107, Duke University