School of Film and Media Studies

Past Events

• Mar 5
  

  UNION with Stephen Maing Q&A

  Time:  7:00pm

  On Wednesday, March 5 at 7pm, the FMS Screening Series presents the UNION in Social Sciences 1001. The 2024 documentary by filmmakers Brett Story (Hottest August) and Stephen Maing (Crime + Punishment) follows Amazon workers in Staten Island embarking on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse.

  
  Stephen Maing in-person Q&A!

  
  
  

  An essential document of the 21st century labor movement – Sam Adams, Slate

   
  
  

  Story and Maing walk an extraordinary tightrope, inviting us to experience the thrill of building solidarity while also refusing to turn away from its frustrations… UNION is rooted in a stirring recognition that sometimes we must strive for a better world even if we don’t have a perfect alternative in place –Devika Girish, Film Comment

  
  
  

  Undeniably political in its focus while being artful and observational in its approach… Simmers like a present-day techno-thriller — Alison Willmore, Vulture

  
  
  

  Individuals requiring accommodations for equal access to this event are encouraged to contact Nathan Holmes [nathan.holmes@purchase.edu] as soon as possible so that a good faith effort can be made by the organizers to meet the identified needs.
• Feb 12
  

  EMITAI screening

  Time:  7:00pm

  The FMS Screening Series continues this week, with films presented by students and faculty! This week, we are excited to be joined by Professor Mtume Gant, who will introduce Ousmane Sèmbene’s 1971 film, EMITAI.

   

  Sembene’s third film launched his international reputation, reaching an audience far beyond Senegal’s Diola community, to whom he had directly addressed the film. EMITAI takes place in the period at the end of the World War II, as West African veterans are returning to their homes in the French colonies. General De Gaulle, the hero of the trench resistance, is now the leader of the newly liberated France, yet forced conscriptions and massacres of Diola villages continue, some of them led by former members of France’s Vichy government. With EMITAI, Sembene realized his statement “film should be a school of history.” When the film was released in 1971, it was immediately banned in Senegal, and throughout Africa. — Harvard  Film Archive

                                                                          

  “As usual with Sembène, this is a film designed to make its audience share discovery and revelation, the limitations of myth, the cruelty of the oppressor, the fortitude of the people, and the need for revolution.” —Amos Vogel
• Feb 5
  

  Screening of HIS THREE DAUGHTERS with director Azazel Jacobs ’94

  Time:  7:00pm

  The School of Film and Media Studies Screening Series brings director Azazel Jacobs (Film BFA, 94) to the Pepsico Theatre at the Performing Arts Center, FEBRUARY 5, 2025 at 7PM for a free screening of his new film HIS THREE DAUGHTERS and a Q&A.
  
  For bio and additional information, see here.

• Dec 11
  

  Power Ups

  Time:  4:00pm

  A night of new games by students in Programming Games and Experimental Game Lab.
  
  And presenting the opening of the Purchcade, an arcade cabinet by Purchase senior Jack Fleming.
  
  One night only, at the new Passage Gallery, at Fort Awesome.
  
  Supported by Natural and Social Sciences.