Academics | Hamilton Theater
The Center for Freedom and Western Civilization will host a film screening of “Erase the Nation” followed by a Q&A with the film's creator, Tomasz Grzywaczewski, at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18 at the Hamilton Theater, 7 Lebanon St. There is no cost for the film screening and the community is welcome to attend.Tomasz Grzywaczewski is a war journalist, non-fiction writer, and documentary filmmaker, with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe.He has been serving as a correspondent for the Chief Evening News Service on Polish public television (TVP1) reporting from Ukraine’s frontline. He has also been reporting from various conflict zones since 2015, including the war in Donbas, Turkish Kurdistan, and Nagorno Karabakh. Grzywaczewski has collaborated with various media outlets, including CBS News and Foreign Policy.Grzywaczewski is the author of the award-winning books: “The Erased Border” dedicated to the people who formed the multinational mosaic of the Second Polish Republic, “The Borders of Dreams”, devoted to the post-soviet unrecognized states, “Life and Death on the Dead Road” and “Across the Wild East” about extreme expeditions to Siberia.An expert in transatlantic relationships, he collaborates with various think tanks and research institutes. He completed a Certificate in Russian Security Studies at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security in Washington, D.C., and has spoken at institutions such as Georgetown University, Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., and The Explorers Club in New York City.His recent documentary, "Erase the Nation", has been screened at international forums such as OSCE and UNESCO, as well as in cities worldwide. He has also directed and written scripts for the films including, “Belarus: Awakening” on the struggle of the Belarusian people against the dictatorship, and “Lithuania: In the Shadow of the Tower” about the heroism of Lithuanian people who restored their independence in 1990.

Academics | Bernstein Hall, Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio
On April 8, 2024, a solar eclipse transited across central New York - its path of totality falling only a few miles from Colgate's campus. Spectating this astronomical phenomenon became a mass social event: nearly a million people flocked to the region.Watch Party, an immersive multi-channel video installation, recreates this event, capturing the scene on the ground rather than the skies.Co-sponsored by Alternative Cinema and Film and Media Studies

Academics | Bernstein Hall, 102 (Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio)
Opening performance and reception will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 12.Movie-Drome 2.0 is a collaborative project reimagining Stan VanDerBeek’s iconic Movie-Drome (1965), a spherical domed multi-projection environment or "experience machine." VanDerBeek designed this alternative cinema to create an "international picture-language" through a series of events he described as "movie-murals," "newsreels of dreams," and "image libraries."Students in fall 2024 courses Art and Technology (CORE400) and Expanded Cinema (FMST390A) have joined forces to remake this work for the contemporary moment using the immersive media environment of the Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio (aka The Vault) as their canvas. Movie-Drome 2.0 features an array of audio-visual media—from archival images to live surveillance, pop culture to politics, psychedelia to environmental processes, local sites to world events.Co-sponsored by Core Distinction

Academics | Little Hall, 114
Video essay by Max Tohline, 2021 Followed by a Q&A with video essayist and scholar Max TohlineThree years in the making, and featuring over 500 clips and images, A Supercut of Supercuts is a feature-length video essay that explores where the supercut came from (going back to the 1920s and beyond), why supercuts hold our attention, and how the supercut furthers the rise of database-thinking in contemporary life.Please note this Alternative Cinema screening will take place in Little Hall 114.

Academics | Bernstein Hall, Experimental Exhibition and Performance Studio
On April 8, 2024, a solar eclipse transited across central New York - its path of totality falling only a few miles from Colgate's campus. Spectating this astronomical phenomenon became a mass social event: nearly a million people flocked to the region.Watch Party, an immersive multi-channel video installation, recreates this event, capturing the scene on the ground rather than the skies.Co-sponsored by Alternative Cinema and Film and Media Studies

Academics | Alumni Hall, 2nd floor
Entangled Intimacies: Tradition, Motion, and Memory is an exhibition inspired by the introductory course of the revised Africana and Latin American Studies curriculum (ALST 199), this exhibition highlights connections among coastal communities of the Atlantic and Pacific. Works from the Caribbean, West Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific Islands feature shared themes of trans-oceanic communication, diasporas, transnationalism, colonialism, and resistance. This exhibition aims to provide space for multiple perspectives through public label submissions (ask a staff member!). Keep coming back, as new labels will be added throughout the semester.This exhibition is curated by Summer Frazier and Rebecca Mendelsohn.