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“Blade Runner”
Film Studies 119/319 “Synthetic Humans” presents the Ridley Scott classic film Blade Runner as part of the Frankenstein@200 Film Festival.
Find out more »DLCL Fall Film Series Screening: Zootopia (2016) Byron Howard
A smash hit at the box office, Disney’s Zootopia returns to the classic question of the relationship between predator and prey— this time within the utopian city of Zootopia, where all species live together in harmony thanks to modern technology. Although the plot may be simple: a country bunny goes to the big city to pair up with a wily fox and uncover a criminal conspiracy, the film’s implications for how we might think about nature and animals in urban…
Find out more »Last Thursdays at the Anderson: Film Screening: Herb & Dorothy
The extraordinary story of Herbert Vogel, a postal clerk, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means. In the early 1960s, when very little attention was paid to Minimalist and Conceptual Art, Herb and Dorothy Vogel quietly began purchasing the works of unknown artists. They proved themselves curatorial visionaries; most of those they supported and befriended went on to become world-renowned artists including Sol LeWitt,…
Find out more »Gallery Talk: Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser
Please join Jennifer Carty, Assistant Curator at Cantor Arts Center, for a Gallery Talk in Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser. Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser explores several major bodies of work by celebrated Stanford-born, Brooklyn-based artist Nina Katchadourian including video, photography, sculpture, and sound art. Katchadourian’s work reveals the creative potential, to use the artist’s words, that “lurks within the mundane.” Using ingenuity and humor, her practice encourages us to reinvigorate our own sense of curiosity and creativity, and to see our everyday surroundings as a…
Find out more »Film Screening: “Reza Abdoh: Theatre Visionary”
Directed by Adam Soch, Reza Abdoh: Theatre Visionary (2015, 104 minutes) covers the extraordinary life of Iranian-born American theatrical maverick Reza Abdoh (1963-1995). Soch is an award-winning filmmaker and producer. Throughout the 1990s, he collaborated closely with Reza Abdoh on many of his most acclaimed productions, including Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice, Bogeyman, Tight Right White, and Quotations from a Ruined City. In many ways, Reza Abdoh resembles the seminal Romantic composer Franz Schubert. Both of these prodigiously talented artists reflected in…
Find out more »Taking Charge of Your Education: Pathways for Humanities PhDs
Join the School of Humanities & Sciences for wine and cheese and a chance to meet fellow grads in other humanities and arts departments, as well as a variety of campus leaders. Lanier Anderson (Senior Associate Dean for the Humanities and Arts) and Matthew Tiews (Associate Vice President for the Arts) will speak briefly about how you can take advantage of Stanford’s resources to plan broadly for your future. We will also distribute a guide to key professional development opportunities for…
Find out more »DLCL Fall Film Series Screening: The Holy Mountain (1926) Arnold Fanck
Arnold Fanck’s classic film The Holy Mountain (Der Heilige Berg) turns to the sublime force of the landscape as the backdrop for an intense, triangular love story. Starring Leni Riefenstahl and the German Alps, this film offers a chance to discuss the ways that humans interact with and depict inhospitable environments and the implications this may have— both for Riefenstahl’s later propaganda films, and the changing roles nature plays as both a “background” and a main character in modern cinema.…
Find out more »“The Golem”
Film Studies 119/319 “Synthetic Humans” presents the 1920 classic film The Golem as part of the Frankenstein@200 Film Festival.
Find out more »DLCL Fall Film Series Screening: Chasing Ice (2012) Jeff Orlowski
A timely and well-received documentary about the environmental photographer James Balog, Chasing Ice attempts to document the fleeting visions at the ends of the earth, where climate change is drastically reshaping our globe. Narrating both the struggles of an individual artist and the struggles of the planet to sustain human life, Orlowski’s film connects planetary concerns to the individual and the audience member across breathtaking, never-before-seen depictions of an intensely sensitive landscape.
Find out more »“Robocop”
Film Studies 119/319 “Synthetic Humans” presents the classic film Robocop as part of the Frankenstein@200 Film Festival.
Find out more »FILM: Divino Inferno [Rodin and The Gates of Hell]
Divino Inferno [Rodin and The Gates of Hell] (2017)A film by Bruno AveillanWritten by Zoé Balthus and Bruno AveillanRunning time: 60 minutes Screening followed by a Q&A with Bruno Aveillan, Zoé Balthus and Dr. Jean Baptiste Chantoiseau, Editor at Musée Rodin (Paris). Produced by ARTE, National French Museum Guild (RMN), NOIR, and Quad & Fix Studio, the 60-minute documentary is based around one of Auguste Rodin’s most emblematic works, The Gates of Hell. Divino Inferno reveals the little-known story behind The Gates of Hell – one of the most enigmatic masterpieces in…
Find out more »InTransit: 4th Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
The Stanford Department of Art & Art History presents InTransit, the 4th Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, on view October 17 through December 3, 2017 with a reception on Thursday, October 19, from 4-6pm. This exhibition features a selection of artwork made by undergraduates, campus wide. “It is very refreshing to see the creativity and energy thriving among our undergraduates. InTransit is only a sample of a wider experience across disciplines that our students engage in throughout different departments. We tried…
Find out more »The Buddha’s Word @ Stanford
This exhibition showcases Buddhist manuscripts and prints held at the Cantor and in Stanford libraries, ranging in dates from around the 11th century to the early 20th century, and coming from various parts of the traditional Buddhist world, from Sri Lanka to Japan. The Buddha’s Word highlights the written word not simply as the visual counterpart to speech but as a thing of beauty and sacredness in and of itself. IMAGE: Artist unknown (Nepal, 12th C.), Pages from a Manuscript of…
Find out more »The Crown under the Hammer: Russia, Romanovs, Revolution
Ruth Levison Halperin Gallery, Lynn Krywick Gibbons Gallery at the Cantor Arts Center and the Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion Marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917 this exhibition examines the political, social, and cultural upheavals that transformed Russia in the final decades of the Romanov dynasty and the first years of Soviet Communism. Jointly organized by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives and the Cantor Arts Center, this dual-site exhibition features a wide variety of art objects and…
Find out more »Earthly Hollows: Cave and Kiln Transformations
This exhibition presents a focused look at caves and kilns, aka “earthly hollows,” as symbolic and physical passages of transformation. Drawing from Cantor’s rich collection of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean art, Earthly Hollows: Cave and Kiln Transformations examines the dynamic ways in which caves, be they mountain grottoes or kilns, tunnel-like chambers made of earth and clay, interface mundane and mystical realms. This exhibition presents a focused look at caves and kilns, aka “earthly hollows,” as symbolic and physical passages of…
Find out more »DLCL Fall Film Series Screening: Microcosmos Claude Nuridsany
Oscillating between the grotesque, the comedic, and the sublime, Nuridsany’s microscopic look into the intimate lives of insects and other tiny life forms challenges what we have come to expect from a nature film. What Microcosmos’ incredible camera work allows us to see in this too-often dismissed world provokes our deeply-held views about the non-human and forces us to confront the complex insect lives we often turn away from in horror, disgust, and disdain. (Screened in French with English subtitles)
Find out more »“Pinocchio”
Film Studies 119/319 “Synthetic Humans” presents the Disney animated classic Pinocchio as part of the Frankenstein@200 Film Festival.
Find out more »Opening Reception | InTransit: 4th Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
The Stanford Department of Art & Art History presents InTransit, the 4th Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, on view October 17 through December 3, 2017 with a reception on Thursday, October 19, from 4-6pm. This exhibition features a selection of artwork made by undergraduates, campus wide. “It is very refreshing to see the creativity and energy thriving among our undergraduates. InTransit is only a sample of a wider experience across disciplines that our students engage in throughout different departments. We tried…
Find out more »Artist Talk: Nina Katchadourian
Brooklyn-based artist, Nina Katchadourian, discusses her artistic practice and the exhibition Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser on view in Pigott Family Gallery at Cantor Arts Center from September 15, 2017 – January 7, 2018. This program is free and open to the public. No tickets or registration is required. Doors open at 6pm. Katchadourian: Curiouser explores several major bodies of work by celebrated Stanford-born, Brooklyn-based artist Nina Katchadourian (b. 1968), including video, photography, sculpture, and sound art. Katchadourian’s work reveals the creative…
Find out more »DLCL Fall Film Series Screening: Rivers and Tides (2001) Thomas Riedelsheimer
Riedelsheimer’s documentary Rivers and Tides offers a rare glimpse of the creations of British environmentalist artist Andy Goldsworthy. Goldsworthy’s works, created in natural settings from local materials including rocks, leaves, icicles, and mud, challenge notions of the proper setting, audience, and purpose of art, even as arguably some of the most natural artworks one might create. The film Rivers and Tides allows these uniquely fleeting works to be preserved on screen as it dives deeply into the creative process of…
Find out more »“A.I. Artificial Intelligence”
Film Studies 119/319 “Synthetic Humans” presents Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed film A.I. Artificial Intelligence as part of the Frankenstein@200 Film Festival.
Find out more »About Face: Intimacy and Abstraction in Photographic Portraits
This exhibition considers the voyeuristic intimacy of the close-up portrait in thirteen photographs by celebrated photographers Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, John Gutmann, Barbara Morgan, and Edward Weston. Dating from the 1920s to the early 1940s, each striking photograph captures a likeness and the mood set by the subject’s personality. Taken in close proximity or cropped in the darkroom, they present their subjects in great detail but also allow passages of abstraction to emerge from the clean geometry of the compositions.IMAGE:…
Find out more »DLCL Fall Film Series Screening: Science is Fiction (1927) Jean Painlevé
Our screening of selected films from Painlevé’s short, surreal, scientific nature films will focus on his depiction of the underwater world. Known for his innovations in underwater photography film, Painlevé’s eccentric take on nature film shows us just how experimental the early attempts of capturing the strange lifeforms of the sea could be. (Screened in French with English subtitles)
Find out more »“Bride of Frankenstein” and “Olympia”
Film Studies 119/319 “Synthetic Humans” presents the classic films Bride of Frankenstein and “Olympia” (from Tales of Hoffmann) as part of the Frankenstein@200 Film Festival.
Find out more »DLCL Fall Film Series: Dog Lady (2015) Verónica Llinás
Dog Lady (La Mujer de los perros) looks at the daily life of a homeless women living on the margins of society with a pack of dogs. Verónica Llinás wrote, directed, and acted in this film that examines the borders where society and nature meet, how we define wildness and wilderness, and what encounters with canine companion species can teach us about what it means to be human. (Screened in Spanish with English subtitles)
Find out more »“My Fair Lady”
Film Studies 119/319 “Synthetic Humans” presents the classic film My Fair Lady as part of the Frankenstein@200 Film Festival.
Find out more »DLCL Fall Film Series Screening: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The Palme d’or winning film Uncle Boonmee by Apichatpong Weerasethakul considers a dying man’s reflections on reincarnation, therefore offering an interesting perspective for our discussion of the relationships between the human and the non-human, the present anxieties of the Anthropocene, and the future of man’s impact on the natural world. Recalling his past lives with the reincarnated figures of his wife and son, Uncle Boonmee invites viewers on a spiritual journey into the jungle and an unexpected exploration of memory…
Find out more »“Die Puppe” and “Making Mr. Right”
Film Studies 119/319 “Synthetic Humans” presents the films Die Puppe and Making Mr. Right as part of the Frankenstein@200 Film Festival.
Find out more »DLCL Fall Film Series: Thin Red Line (1998) Terrence Malick
Malick’s Thin Red Line pushes the concept of a nature film to its limits, as we explore the role of nature in the story of the Battle of Mount Austen in the Pacific Theater of World War II, originally written by James Jones. With an all-star cast and lush scenery, Malick explores the deep resonances between the beauty of the Pacific, the intense subjectivity of battle, and the collective experience of an environment transformed by war.
Find out more »“Her”
Film Studies 119/319 “Synthetic Humans” presents the critically acclaimed film Her as part of the Frankenstein@200 Film Festival.
Find out more »Gallery Talk: Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser
Please join Jennifer Carty, Associate Curator at Cantor Arts Center, for a Gallery Talk in Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser. Katchadourian: Curiouser explores several major bodies of work by celebrated Stanford-born, Brooklyn-based artist Nina Katchadourian (b. 1968), including video, photography, sculpture, and sound art. Katchadourian’s work reveals the creative potential, to use the artist’s words, that “lurks within the mundane”. Using ingenuity and humor, her practice encourages us to reinvigorate our own sense of curiosity and creativity, and to see our everyday…
Find out more »Gallery Talk: Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser
Please join Jennifer Carty, Assistant Curator at Cantor Arts Center, for a Gallery Talk in Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser. Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser explores several major bodies of work by celebrated Stanford-born, Brooklyn-based artist Nina Katchadourian including video, photography, sculpture, and sound art. Katchadourian’s work reveals the creative potential, to use the artist’s words, that “lurks within the mundane.” Using ingenuity and humor, her practice encourages us to reinvigorate our own sense of curiosity and creativity, and to see our everyday surroundings as a…
Find out more »DLCL Fall Film Series: Samsara (2011) Ron Fricke
Ron Fricke’s visual spectacle Samsara harkens back to the tradition of silent nature films while incorporating the specific imagery and anxieties of the twenty-first century. Filmed in 25 countries around the world over the course of five years, Samsara probes tensions between the sublimity of faith, modern technology, and natural wonders, and the mundanity and ferocity of everyday human experience that only film, with a variety of cutting-edge cinematographic techniques and technologies, can capture.
Find out more »“Westworld”
Film Studies 119/319 “Synthetic Humans” presents portions of the critically acclaimed series Westworld as part of the Frankenstein@200 Film Festival.
Find out more »Open Studios: Fall | 2017
Open Studios is a self-guided art tour of our undergraduate student showcase from the Fall 2017 Art Practice courses: Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Digital Art, Sculpture, Film and more..! This is a rare opportunity to see student artwork in the studios in which it was created. Previous, Open Studio, photos can be viewed here VISITOR INFORMATION:The McMurtry Building is located on Stanford’s campus, at 355 Roth Way. The Stanford Art Gallery, room AG110 is located at the rear of the Art Gallery…
Find out more »The Matter of Photography in the Americas
Featuring artists from twelve different countries, this exhibition presents a wide range of creative responses to photography as an artistic medium and a communicative tool uniquely suited to modern media landscapes and globalized economies. The artists in this exhibition resist the impulse to “document” or “photograph anew” the world immediately around them. Instead, they employ a wide range of materials — from prints and drawings to photocopies and audio installations — to highlight the ways in which photography shapes our…
Find out more »Health Humanities Consortium Conference
A three-day celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein through an exploration of medically-based ethical dilemmas and an examination of the relevance of Frankenstein in moral imagination today.
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